Washington says it will hit Canada with tariffs on steel and aluminum. In response, Ottawa is retaliating with a long list of surtaxes on U.S. imports.

U.S. President Donald Trump has introduced new tariffs on China, which threatened to retaliate soon after, as a trade war heats up between the two countries. Before China was able to react, the stock market had its say: The Dow dropped...

Have Donald Trump’s new tariffs set in motion an international trade war? CBC’s David Common speaks with former U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills about how the latest tariffs on steel and aluminum have pitted allies against one...

A Canada-U.S. trade war is brewing over new tariffs that were introduced by U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump's announcement has drawn criticism worldwide and the Canadian government is vowing to push back if Canada is affected by the...

Flavio Volpe of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association and Dan Ikenson of the Cato Institute, on the impact of Trump's tariffs on the auto industry

The panel on geopolitics and the wild week in equity markets

Eleven hundred economists signed a letter urging U.S. President Donald Trump not to go down the path of the protectionist Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. And one winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, Robert Engle, explains why he...

Dominic Barton is managing partner at McKinsey & Co.

Laura Dawson of the Wilson Institute and Chris Sands of Johns Hopkins University discuss Trump's tough talk on trade

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday U.S. President Donald Trump seems wedded to tariffs and any trade deal with the Americans may include accepting some levies on exports. Former Conservative leader Erin O'Toole said Carney has...

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Wednesday that the government will be investing $70 million for training and income support for 10,000 affected steel workers. Matthew Shoemaker, mayor of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., says the money...

Scientists are worried that the rising number of satellites burning up in our atmosphere could threaten the ozone layer. Andrew Chang explains what happens when a satellite reaches the end of its life, the science supporting these...

Chibuike Ifedilichukwu learned how to weave sleeping mats from his grandmother. After he went to university and became more concerned about the environment, he turned his mat-weaving into artistry, using aluminum cans cut into strips and...

The Coca-Cola Company is teaming up with science education personality Bill Nye as part of its World Without Waste Initiative to describe the bottle-to-bottle plastic recycling process through a vividly animated, stop-motion short film....

Catching you up on what you need to know on April 5, 2022, with Biden's call for a war crimes trial for Putin, another arrest made in the Sacramento mass shooting, NYC rolling out a campaign against Florida’s "Don’t Say Gay" bill, an...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump today about the border and the prospect of new American tariffs on Canadian aluminum.

With the U.S. election now just over two weeks away, CBC’s chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton breaks down the tumultuous relationship between U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and examines the...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with reporters from Parliament Hill on Wednesday.

CEO Lance Mitchell chalked up the company's recent IPO success to making a compelling case to investors — despite the seemingly static nature of the consumer-goods business.

The CBC's Mark Carcasole breaks down the timing of U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff threats and carve-outs, and which sectors of the Canadian economy they affected.

Just over three months ago, President Trump launched his boldest tariff offensive yet, announcing sweeping levies on goods from nearly every nation. Dubbed ‘Liberation Day,’ the plan aimed to ink 90 trade deals in 90 days. But within...

CBC senior reporter Ashley Burke has the latest on how the government plans to manage next week's G7 leaders' summit, including the decision not to issue a final communique.

James Ponting, co-founder of Craft Coast Canning in Noonan, N.B., says the 50 per cent tariff on aluminum imports imposed by the Trump administration is yet another expensive blow for his company. Despite the province’s talk of support...

The Canadian steel hub of Hamilton is reeling after the U.S. doubled its tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, while some in Quebec — North America’s largest aluminum producer — say shipments to the U.S. could dry up completely.