Janyce McGregor

Popular shortbread recipe caught up in Meta's ban on Canadian news | CBC News Hundreds of people have been emailing CBC Kelowna looking for instructions for how to make contest-winning cookies.

PSA for shortbread bakers:
Based on empirical testing at my house, I can confirm Sandy French is right. This recipe is better if you make it in advance and leave it in your frig for a few weeks. Best get on it right away!
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Stephen Crawford on X: "In the face of U.S. tariffs and global uncertainty, we’re taking decisive action to protect Ontario, strengthen our economy, and ensure our workers get the fair shot they deserve. This morning at Etobicoke Ironworks, I had the pleasure of joining @ToddJMcCarthy as we announced https://t.co/ziZTwHLZXl" / X In the face of U.S. tariffs and global uncertainty, we’re taking decisive action to protect Ontario, strengthen our economy, and ensure our workers get the fair shot they deserve. This morning at Etobicoke Ironworks, I had the pleasure of joining @ToddJMcCarthy as we announced https://t.co/ziZTwHLZXl

This is an interprovincial trade barrier.

Canada, previously:
"We can't develop our resource sector without more foreign investment."
(Some in) Canada, now:
"Oh no! Foreign investors are involved in this priority project! Maybe we shouldn't..."
Folks, we're gonna have to pick a lane here.

Truth social post from President Trump: So, let’s get this straight??? The President of the United States is allowed (and fully approved by Congress!) to stop ALL TRADE with a Foreign Country (Which is far more onerous than a Tariff!), and LICENSE a Foreign Country, but is not allowed to put a simple Tariff on a Foreign Country, even for purposes of NATIONAL SECURITY. That is NOT what our great Founders had in mind! The whole thing is ridiculous! Other Countries can Tariff us, but we can’t Tariff them??? It is their DREAM!!! Businesses are pouring into the USA ONLY BECAUSE OF TARIFFS. HAS THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT NOT BEEN TOLD THIS??? WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON??? President DJT

1/ Unique typing style aside, the President raises an interesting question here:

Why do some like me think Congress and the Founders are comfortable with him banning or licensing an import during an economic emergency, but not applying a tariff on it?

Let's talk about it.

It's like he watched a different hearing than everyone else - ?

LIVE UPDATES | U.S. Supreme Court justices question Trump’s sweeping use of tariffs | CBC

I'm covering events on the Hill today but my colleagues are watching SCOTUS for us -- and indeed, those Ontario ads did come up:
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Even by the standards of the genre, an extraordinary round of gaslighting by Trump admin officials on the Sunday talk show circuit. It’s become too overwhelming to fact check point by point. I guess that’s the strategy.

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OMG. All of it.
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"The Ontario ad was right: Reagan would not have approved of Mr. Trump’s protectionist trade policies, particularly when aimed at allies."

No, Ronald Reagan Didn’t Love Tariffs He wasn’t a free-trade purist, but he was nothing like Trump.

Krugman is spot on. In 1982, I headed up the Commerce Department’s Industry Advisory Committee Program for trade negotiations. Earlier, under Reagan, I ran Commerce’s Trade Negotiations Division. I saw Reagan’s trade policy up close and personal. Trump, you’re not a Ronald Reagan.

Canadian ranchers want U.K. trade deal terminated | CBC News Canada’s ranchers are calling on the federal government to terminate the trade agreement it’s had in place with the United Kingdom since Brexit, part of a renewed push to persuade the British governme...

New from me:
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Has to be understood in context of the slow-walking that has been happening overall bc of ag trade issues. U.K. can't politically stomach the concessions Canada wants, and Canada is holding U.K. cheese exports ransom. Call to terminate the holding pattern deal altogether is a new tactic.

Canadian Beef Producers Request Termination of the Canada-UK Continuity Agreement - Canadian Cattle Association The Canadian Cattle Association (CCA) calls for the Government of Canada to initiate the termination of the Canada-UK Continuity Agreement, following the tabling of the UK Accession to the Comprehensi...

It's the exact barrier you are imagining:
the long-running battle over slaughter regs/hygeine standards
Canada's in line w/ U.S. regs b/c very cross-border integrated.
Canada's grievance dates back to CETA/Brexit fights, and remains unresolved with both EU and now UK.

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And...
In a news conference on Parliament Hill just now, the Canadian Cattle Association called for Canada to TERMINATE its trade continuity agreement with the U.K. because it continues to put up barriers to Canadian beef exports.
Just in case anyone thought trade diversification politically easy...

Morneau's fall economic statement tries to coax businesses to look beyond U.S. | CBC News Finance Minister Bill Morneau's Fall Economic Statement puts more money where the Trudeau government's mouth is on its trade diversification strategy, in an attempt to nudge more businesses into pursu...

It's just one of my archived pieces, for BG reference -- try this one if you want to share my deja vu:
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FES, 2018:
50% export growth by 2025
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Then came:
2 Michaels, Covid, Biden normalization, Ukraine, Nijjar killing
Goal articulated by PM Carney tonight: 2x non-U.S. growth (!)
Numerically impossible w/out big plays in Asia. Should be an interesting fall summit season.

Just to be clear, the case is about specific tariffs under IEEPA. Even if SCOTUS says these tariffs are illegal, Trump has loads of other tariffs options, so his claims here make no sense.

No - a new one has been issued. Extending for another two months. Order in Council will be posted later, but news release is out.

Lovely to hear! I will let him know.

Tariff exemptions mean that applied rates are below the headline. Whereas 94% of US goods imports from China face duties, for imports from Canada the share is just 10%.

From @tobyn.bsky.social
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And the NY Fed
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At least tariffs created SOME jobs: lobbying jobs.

@bloomberg.com
@scottlincicome.bsky.social

DHS deems collecting tariffs "essential," so will keep collecting them in the event of a government shutdown.

Meanwhile, if past USTR practice is any indication, negotiations on trade deals to obtain relief from the tariffs will pause.
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It's not that the US can't find some way to tax its own citizens for consuming foreign movies. They can.

It's that the US probably doesn't want to fire the starting gun on the "let's tariff services" conversation for the same reason Saudi Arabia didn't bankroll Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth."

ALCOA CEO: “.. Tariffs can change very quickly, and therefore we don’t make an investment in the US based on a tariff.”

@semafor.com @beyer.house.gov
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India says trade talks with Canada have resumed. Not yet, Canada says | CBC News Global Affairs Canada has clarified reports out of India on Friday that suggested the two countries were ready to restart bilateral trade negotiations, two years after their diplomatic rupture over th...

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1/18 The U.S. Trade Representative has initiated public consultations ahead of the mandatory USMCA review on July 1, 2026. This review will determine whether the US, Mexico, and Canada extend the agreement for another 16 years.

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Seoul eyes CPTPP to bolster economic cooperation with Japan: PM Kim Min-seok emphasizes importance of 'Asian sphere' amid US tariffs

Seoul eyes CPTPP to bolster economic cooperation with Japan: PM
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Supreme Court to quickly consider if President Donald Trump has power to impose sweeping tariffs The Supreme Court is granting an unusually quick hearing on whether President Donald Trump has the power under federal law to impose sweeping tariffs.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court is granting an unusually quick hearing on whether President Donald Trump has the power under federal law to impose sweeping tariffs.

Interesting color in the administration's motion to SCOTUS to expedite the tariffs case from Treasury Sec. Bessent, who says the appeals court ruling on Friday against Trump's tariffs is already impacting trade talks:

"World leaders are ... walking away from or delaying negotiations," he says.