18 minutes ago
Trump warns Republicans to get successful enactment connected tariffs
Alexander Panetta
Trump speaks to reporters earlier signing an enforcement bid connected March 31, 2025. (The Associated Press)At hazard of being repudiated successful Congress, Trump has issued a informing to Republicans: enactment my Canada tariffs.
The president posted a connection connected his societal media tract weighing successful connected an anticipated Senate ballot connected his cross-border tariffs.
“Don’t fto the Democrats person a Victory,” Trump posted.
“It would beryllium devastating for the Republican Party and, acold much importantly, for the United States. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
The Senate volition vote, apt by time afternoon, connected a solution to condemn Trump‘s declaration of a nationalist exigency involving fentanyl from Canada.
The ballot is chiefly symbolic. The solution is highly improbable to walk the House. In addition, it would not person capable votes to override a apt Trump veto and, adjacent then, it lone involves a fraction of Trump’s tariffs.
Yet it could inactive beryllium a governmental embarrassment — and an unwanted distraction, conscionable arsenic Trump proceeds with his tariff argumentation this week.
The solution appears to person the enactment of a fewer Republicans and could perchance walk the Senate, a enclosure Trump’s enactment controls.
32 minutes ago
Private assemblage creep into wellness attraction won’t fly, says Singh
Jenna Benchetrit
The NDP is promising to prohibition U.S. companies from buying health-care facilities successful Canada. Speaking successful Edmonton today, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh framed the committedness arsenic some a stroke to U.S. President Donald Trump and a determination to support our cosmopolitan nationalist health-care system.
He added that an NDP authorities would enforce the Canada Health Act to extremity privatization, and criticized his hostile Mark Carney successful particular, suggesting that cuts to wellness attraction are connected the array with a Liberal government.
Carney has said he’ll rein successful authorities spending and has said his authorities would measure immoderate programs to spot however good they’re working, but hasn’t said which ones.
“I privation Canadians to cognize that we are going to combat with each ounce of our being, with each fibre of our being, to support our health-care strategy not conscionable cosmopolitan and public, but besides to fortify it, to amended it,” said Singh.
Some Canadian backstage equity firms person bought aesculapian clinics that connection time surgeries, MRI scans and cataract surgeries extracurricular of a infirmary setting.
My workfellow Kate McKenna says the NDP could enforce the Canada Health Act by withholding transfers to provinces not successful alignment with its principles, but called this a “politically hard move” — due to the fact that it means withholding currency from provincial health-care institutions.
39 minutes ago
The decease of North America's archetypal c tax
Andrew Kurjata
Premier David Eby successful Vancouver, B.C, connected Friday, March 28, 2025. (Ben Nelms/CBC)Hi, I'm a writer based successful Prince George, B.C.
This morning, British Columbia joined the national authorities successful repealing its c taxation aft a late-night legislative league that ended astatine 1:30 a.m. PT aimed astatine fast-tracking the policy.
B.C. was really the archetypal jurisdiction successful North America to present wide c pricing done a user tax, successful 2008. The argumentation was fashionable for years, surviving left- and right-leaning governments.
But Premier David Eby says it became "toxic," successful portion due to the fact that of Poilievre's palmy "axe the tax" run astatine the national level. The messaging was picked up by the Conservative Party of B.C., which astir unseated the NDP successful past year's provincial election.
Eby says B.C. volition present absorption connected concern emitters.
1 hr ago
Lucas Powers
The alteration successful the mean terms of state successful cents/litre from March 22 to April 1, 2025. (gaswizard.ca/CBC)With the removal of the c taxation today, 1 adept says determination volition beryllium immoderate outgo savings passed connected to consumers astir immediately.
Andrew Leach, an vigor and biology economist astatine the University of Alberta, said the cancelled taxation volition beryllium felt astir instantly astatine the state pump.
The terms connected contamination for gasoline translated to a outgo of astir 17.6 cents per litre up until today. Leach said it's apt that magnitude volition travel disconnected wrong a substance of days, and information from gaswizard.ca, shown successful the graphic above, appears to carnivore that out.
"It is simply a point-of-sale complaint … truthful you should spot it travel disconnected astir instantly," Leach told our workfellow Abby Hughes.
If state prices dropped by 17.6 cents a litre arsenic a effect of the taxation coming off, you'd prevention astir $8.80 erstwhile filling a car with a modular 50-litre state tank.
You tin work much astir however the extremity of the c taxation could interaction your pocketbook here.
1 hr ago
Canada won’t ‘disadvantage’ its ain workers connected tariffs
Jenna Benchetrit
Carney speaks during a run halt successful Winnipeg. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)Ahead of “tariff-palooza” tomorrow, arsenic my workfellow Alex Panetta called it, Carney spoke again astir his caller telephone with Trump. He reiterated the 2 agreements they made during that call.
The archetypal was that aft the election, the U.S. president and the adjacent premier curate volition beryllium down and statesman broad negotiations; and the 2nd was that Canada’s furniture ministers volition beryllium successful adjacent interaction with their U.S. counterparts until then.
Carney said Canada volition enforce retaliatory measures connected the U.S. “if determination are further [tariffs] enactment successful spot against Canada tomorrow,” and restated that the government’s program is to hold and spot earlier showing its hand.
“We volition not disadvantage Canadian producers and Canadian workers comparative to American workers,” helium said.
1 hr ago
Liberals looking for caller campaigner successful Markham-Unionville
Jenna Benchetrit
Carney reacts to Liberal campaigner Paul Chiang dropping retired of predetermination contention
Liberal Leader Mark Carney, speaking from Winnipeg connected Day 10 of the predetermination campaign, says helium accepted the resignation of present erstwhile Liberal campaigner Paul Chiang from the contention aft Chiang said Conservative campaigner Joe Tay should beryllium turned successful to the Chinese Consulate successful speech for a bounty.
Asked astir Liberal campaigner Paul Chiang’s determination to measurement down past nighttime — Chiang was criticized for saying that Conservative campaigner Joe Tay beryllium turned successful to the Chinese consulate successful speech for a bounty — Carney kept his effect brief.
“Mr. Chiang offered his resignation past night. I accepted it. As I said yesterday, his comments were profoundly troubling and regrettable. We volition determination connected looking guardant with a caller campaigner for Markham[-Unionville], and I’ll permission it astatine that.”
2 hours ago
Tariff-palooza time: 4 p.m. ET Wednesday
Alexander Panetta
Tim Kaine wants to unit Trump, Republicans to reconsider Canadian tariffs
The Democratic legislator from Virginia has tabled a measure to situation the Trump administration's nationalist information justification for tariffs connected Canada. Kaine says respective Republicans could beryllium inclined to ballot successful favour of his bill, perchance forcing a akin ballot successful the House of Representatives.
After promising worldwide tariffs for 2 years, since the commencement of his predetermination campaign, Trump volition marque it authoritative Wednesday.
The White House has conscionable issued an advisory announcing Trump volition uncover his tariff argumentation astatine 4 p.m. ET tomorrow.
At an lawsuit successful the White House Rose Garden, surrounded by members of his administration, the president volition denote his plans for tariffs connected antithetic countries and industries.
There’s a batch we inactive don’t know, specified arsenic whether the tariffs volition deed industries, oregon full countries, oregon the full satellite with level tariff rates.
Trump has repeatedly adjusted the details successful his nationalist remarks, and adjacent successful caller days determination person been inconsistent leaks successful U.S. media.
2 hours ago
Carney touts Liberal grounds connected affordability, but doesn’t accidental thing new
Jenna Benchetrit
During a run announcement successful Winnipeg this morning, Carney listed Liberal policies aimed astatine improving affordability — but helium didn’t denote thing new.
Instead, helium took a triumph thigh connected the extremity of the user c taxation and doubled down connected his commitments to $10/day kid attraction and the nationalist dental attraction program. He besides re-upped promises to region the GST connected caller homes nether $1 million, spur the improvement of affordable lodging and chopped the taxation complaint for the lowest taxation bracket.
2 hours ago
Mexican-Canadian elector disquieted astir ‘the aboriginal for our kids’
Meagan Fitzpatrick
Maria Hernandez owns Tacos Tony successful Leamington, Ont. (Meagan Fitzpatrick/CBC)Hello from Kingsville and Leamington, 2 southwestern Ontario towns wherever I americium reporting unrecorded contiguous connected CBC News Network. These communities are hubs for greenhouse rootlike growers, and I'll person much to study connected that aboriginal today.
Leamington has a ample Mexican community, successful portion due to the fact that of workplace workers who came to enactment present and stayed. We popped into Tacos Tony and met proprietor Maria Hernandez, who immigrated to Canada much than 30 years ago.
While serving tasty tacos and different authentic Mexican dishes past nighttime to some Mexican and Canadian customers, Maria shared what's connected her caput during this election.
"The aboriginal for our kids. We privation each the champion for them," said Hernandez, who has 4 grandchildren. She said a cleanable situation is besides important to her, and was 1 of the reasons she moved to Leamington from Toronto.
On the commercialized warfare with the U.S., Hernandez said Trump is looking retired for his country, and Canada has to bash the same. She has made up her caput arsenic a elector but kept her prime private.
When I asked 2 antithetic customers what they privation Canada’s leaders to prioritize, they some said affordable housing.
“What happened to the two- oregon three-bedroom household location for a fewer 100 1000 dollars, alternatively of the $800,000 monster homes?” said Hillary Leipold. “Yes, marque homes, but marque them disposable to everyone, not conscionable 1 demographic each the time.”
2 hours ago
Some U.S. senators pushing to artifact Trump’s tariffs connected Canadian goods
Alexander Panetta
Trump's tariffs based connected 'fake Canadian emergency,' says U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine
The U.S. Senate is acceptable to ballot Tuesday connected a solution from Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia to situation U.S. President Donald Trump's usage of the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, to state an exigency astatine the bluish borderline successful bid to deed Canada with tariffs.
There’s a measure that could present Trump’s commercialized argumentation a symbolic achromatic oculus — connected Canada’s behalf.
It’s Senate Resolution 37, sponsored by Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, and it could beryllium the taxable of respective hours’ statement and a ballot implicit the adjacent time oregon two. It would terminate Trump's national-security justification for tariffs connected Canada.
It specifically repudiates the rationale involving fentanyl for the acceptable of Trump tariffs that imposed a 25 per cent levy connected immoderate products and a 10 per cent levy connected vigor products.
Kaine said helium already has enactment from 3 Republicans — Rand Paul, Susan Collins and Thom Tillis — and is adjacent to locking up the indispensable votes to walk it.
If it passes, it would beryllium an embarrassing connection for Trump to transportation into tomorrow's tariff time — a rejection from the Senate, which his enactment controls.
However, substantively, it mightiness mean precise little. The measure volition astir surely not beryllium brought for a ballot successful the House. Also, Trump could veto it anyway.
Plus, this would lone rebuke 1 acceptable of tariffs. The authorities doesn’t notation Trump’s different tariffs — connected steel, aluminum and cars, positive the remainder he’s announcing tomorrow.
Still, Kaine said this could make unit for the president to commencement backing off.
“I [just] travelled astir my authorities of Virginia, including successful Republican parts of the state, and my … constituents are furious astir this. They’re pro-Canada. They’re pro-trade with Canada,” helium said.
“I deliberation if we get a good, coagulated bipartisan ballot successful the Senate, that’s going to beryllium a almighty connection to Donald Trump and his economical advisers: you are playing with fire. Don’t rise taxes connected Americans connected their groceries and gathering supplies astatine a clip erstwhile the system is softening.”