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Canada has suspended service at eight of the nine ferry terminals near the U.S.-Canadian border, including those near Washington state.

When the United States abandoned the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to embrace the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), it did so under the premise of crafting a better trade arrangement for itself. Established in 1994, NAFTA created a trilateral trade bloc that encouraged commerce between nations. But critics have accused it of encouraging the offshoring of U.S. jobs and dramatically suppressing wages — particularly within the automotive and manufacturing sectors. Signed in 2018, and revised the following year, the USMCA was supposed to remedy those issue...

  SAINT JOHN, N.B. -- While Canada’s cruise ship ban is ending months ahead of schedule, large passenger vessels aren’t expected to enter Maritime harbours until 2022. “We’ve got a schedule next year, right now, of 70 cruise ships with 188,000 passengers,” says Andrew Dixon, vice president of trade and business development at the Port of Saint John. Dixon says the port’s goal is to keep that schedule in tact. “We’ll obviously be going out to the cruise lines now looking to firm those reservations up,” he says. “The other wild card is how full the ships will be. We w...

At 34, centre back Steven Vitoria is the greybeard of the Canadian soccer team as it prepares for World Cup qu...

At 34, centre back Steven Vitoria is the greybeard of the Canadian soccer team as it prepares for World Cup qualifying matches against Aruba and Suriname.