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Canada to impose tariffs of up to 25% on vehicles imported from U.S. Wednesday, escalating trade war

Up to 60% of cars purchased in Canada each year are imported from the United States, making it the largest export market for American-made cars
Vehicles are transported in Auburn Hills, Mich., on April 4, 2025, with the North American headquarters of Stellantis in the background.

Stocks end sharply lower again after another stunning day of reversals as uncertainty reigns about Trump’s tariffs

Trump’s tariffs are already rerouting global supply chains

election 2025

Carney says he was at the table managing crises during Harper years, not Poilievre

Former PM Harper says Trump didn’t create Canada’s problems as he endorses Poilievre at Edmonton rally attended by thousands
Liberal Leader Mark Carney visits Intelligent City in Delta, B.C., on April 8, 2025.

Bloc Québécois takes campaign to Ottawa to defend use of notwithstanding clause

Poilievre promises to crack down on offshore tax loopholes

Real estate

Battered by a weak dollar and shocked by U.S. politics, Canadians are getting rid of their Florida homes at an inopportune time

In the past two months, some Florida realtors say they’ve been inundated with Canadian sellers who are hoping to offload their properties as quickly as possible
With the Canadian flag hanging by the front entrance, Mark Hintz (R)56, and his mother, Rosemary Ann Fry, 78, in front of their home near Sarasota, Florida, on Mar 14, 2025. They’ve listed their home and will be moving to the GTA. Hintz’s grandfather served with the RCAF in the Second World War. They will also be taking a financial hit as the real estate market has softened. (Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail)
opinion

The real crash to fear in the trade war is housing, not stocks

Rob Carrick
Rob Carrick
energy

Keystone oil pipeline shut down after rupture in rural North Dakota, owner South Bow confirms

South Bow said it was in the midst of notifying regulators, landowners and customers of the spill
GASCOYNE, ND - OCTOBER 14: Miles of unused pipe, prepared for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, sit in a lot on October 14, 2014 outside Gascoyne, North Dakota. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
television

Handmaid’s Tale offers hope and resilience in final chapter

The final season of The Handmaid’s Tale is a call to action and a reminder to never lose one’s fire
Amber Dowling
Season 6 of The Handmaid's Tale on Crave

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Mental Health Research Canada Vice-President of Development and Strategic Initiatives Michael Cooper at his home on April 5, 2025. April 5, 2025. (Sammy Kogan/The Globe and Mail)

New hub for teen mental-health data launches with eye on tailoring supports for Canadian youth

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Business and Finance

NDP leader Jagmeet Singh makes an announcement during a campaign stop alongside NDP candidates, left to right, Manoj Bhangu, Bonita Zarrillo, Michael Charrois and Jenny Kwan in Vancouver, B.C., Tuesday, April 8, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov

Singh calls on Carney to block Rogers wireless deal

Toronto’s iconic El Mocambo music venue up for sale

Our Lady Peace play to a packed crowd as they mark the re-opening of the iconic Toronto music venue The El Mocambo on Saturday, October 30, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

Investor advocates urge regulators to ban controversial sales commissions for mutual funds

The doors to the Ontario Securities Commission hearing rooms in Toronto on December 12, 2019. (Melissa Tait / The Globe and Mail)

Tailscale raises $230-million, reaching $2-billion valuation on surging demand from AI companies

TWO COLUMN ONLY -Photos supplied by Tailscale pic is of CEO and co-founder Avery Pennarun.
newsletter

Business Brief: The return of Bill Ackman’s ‘nuclear winter’

Bill Ackman at a November conference in New York.

Opinion and analysis

In the game of tariff chicken, China and the EU will capitulate before Trump does

Eric Reguly
Eric Reguly

America is lost. But we can still save the rest of the world from Trump’s tariffs

Wolfgang Alschner
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 2, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo

It’s not the economy, stupid. That’s not why Trump tariffs the world

Brandon Schaufele
US President Donald Trump, center, salutes while inspecting the troops during the 60th presidential inauguration in Emancipation Hall of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. President Donald Trump launched his second term with a strident inaugural address that vowed to prioritize Americas interests with a "golden age" for the country, while taking on "a radical and corrupt establishment." ALEXANDER DRAGO/Pool via REUTERS

If Canada wants closer European ties, we need European privacy standards, not American

Matt Malone
FILE PHOTO: European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, April 20, 2016. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir/File Photo

Canada must plan for life without Elon Musk’s Starlink

Rob McMahon and Peter Garland
FILE PHOTO: SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk gestures after arriving on the red carpet for the Axel Springer award, in Berlin, Germany, December 1, 2020. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke/Pool/File Photo

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explainer

Ten economic issues that will define the 2025 election, explained in charts

Pocketbook issues were set to dominate the conversation in this election cycle. Then along came a trade war

Scotiabank CEO says Canada needs to boost investment in energy infrastructure

Portrait of Scotiabank’s CEO Scott Thomson working at the ‘Cedar’ Boardroom. One of many boardrooms at the Scotia Bank north tower. September 27, 2023. The art piece above him is by Luce Meunier and is part of the Scotiabank fine art collection. (With a right to use it in the image). (Niv Shimshon/The Globe and Mail)

Family vacations might be the best setting to talk to your kids about money

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Trump doubles down on tariffs despite warnings on Wall Street

Traders work in the S&P options pit at the Cboe Options Exchange in the Chicago Board of Trade Building in the Loop, Monday, April 7, 2025. (Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

Why are Canada’s largest telecom companies selling stakes in their core infrastructure?

A cell tower outside the One Mount Pleasant Road offices of Rogers Communications in Toronto. March 15, 2021 (Melissa Tait / The Globe and Mail)

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Carney says he was at the table managing crises during Harper years, not Poilievre

Trump to impose additional 50% tariff on China

Why are Canada’s largest telecom companies selling stakes in their core infrastructure?

At least 58 dead, more than 160 injured after Dominican Republic nightclub roof collapses

Keystone oil pipeline shut down after rupture in rural North Dakota, owner South Bow confirms

Let the real election campaign finally begin

Opinion

America is lost. But we can still save the rest of the world from Trump’s tariffs

Wolfgang Alschner

‘I’ve experienced every single smackdown in the market for over 50 years’

In case you missed it

How Canadians are putting their anger to good use and defying the U.S.: We answer your questions

Portraits of some of the hundreds that joined a “Elbows Up, Canada” rally in Toronto on March 22, 2025, celebrating Canadian pride as the country continues to respond to US tariffs. March 22, 2025. (Sammy Kogan/The Globe and Mail)

The White Lotus season 3 finale: The ending we (mostly) didn’t see coming

The Ratliff family is the picture of dysfunction in season 3 of The White Lotus.

Parliament Hill lockdown ends after police arrest man who barricaded himself inside East Block

Members of the Ottawa police investigate an incident at Parliament Hill on April 5.

A lost Beatles demo tape turned up in Vancouver. It sounds like a revolution

Rob Frith, the owner of Neptoon Records, poses for a photograph with the rare Beatles demo he found, at his shop in Vancouver, B.C., on Friday, April 4, 2025. Tijana Martin/ The Globe and Mail

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Canada

Prime Minister Mark Carney, speaks before signing a decision note to eliminate the consumer carbon price, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Friday, March 14, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

B.C. Insider: Canadians to receive payments for cancelled carbon levy

Carney defends carbon levy payout to households as a bridge to new tax cut

Bus driver in Quebec daycare killings unable to tell right from wrong, second expert says

World

French and American flags flap in the wind prior to the arrival of United States Vice-President JD Vance at Paris Orly Airport, ahead of an Artificial Intelligence Action Summit taking place in Paris, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

How the ‘Buy Canadian’ movement is inspiring France’s ‘Le Boycott’

U.S. scientists genetically engineer wolves to resemble the extinct dire wolf

analysis

China vows to ‘fight to the end,’ calls Trump’s bluff on tariffs

Politics

FILE - This March 22, 2013, file photo shows the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

U.S. Internal Revenue Service agrees to send immigrant tax data to ICE for enforcement

More than 70 independent candidates running in Poilievre’s riding as part of co-ordinated protest

Liberals outline support for retirees, Poilievre criticizes Trump over stock market ‘chaos’

Sports

Winnipeg Jets centre Mark Scheifele (55) controls the puck past Los Angeles Kings left-winger Warren Foegele (37) during third period NHL hockey action, in Los Angeles, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Kyusung Gong

Oddsmakers cool to suggestion of league-leading Winnipeg Jets winning Stanley Cup

Top prospect Ivan Demidov signs entry-level contract with Canadiens

Canada determined, but dented, heading into women’s world hockey championship

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Why fragrance is the ultimate travel souvenir

Health & Fitness

Microgreens deliver a hefty amount of many vitamins and minerals, as well as protective phytochemicals. Microgreens grown at Redfroglab Inc., an urban modular farm in Montreal, on April 22, 2024.
food for thought

Opting for microgreens over lettuce amid tariff war? Here’s how they stack up

Leslie Beck
strength & fitness

Taking your run from the treadmill to the road? A former Olympic runner shares her tips

Are functional mushrooms the secret weapon for well-being?

Real Estate

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done deal

Buyers brave the storm to snag midtown penthouse with a view

done deal

Modest makeover and a price cut lead buyers to midtown Toronto condo

opinion

Tariff uncertainty seen as an opportunity for B.C.’s languishing modular industry

Kerry Gold

Drive

2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5
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What spacious EV would be good for sleeping in?

driving concerns

Do curb extensions at crosswalks make intersections safer?

Where are the best-selling cars in Canada assembled and what is made here?

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Canada’s health information institute pushing for countrywide standardization of patient data

A paramedic is seen outside ambulances parked at the entrance to the emergency department at Richmond General Hospital, in Richmond, B.C., Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

How transparent is your city? Audit of freedom of information requests finds vast differences

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