Tag: Canada

• Thursday, November 15th 2018 - 08:57 UTC

  Bolsonaro nominates expert in US affairs as Brazil's next foreign minister

  

  Brazil's president-elect Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday named as foreign minister a career diplomat who currently heads the ministry's United States and Canada department. Ernesto Araujo, 51, was an early supporter of the far-right leader, and courted controversy when he referred to members of the left-wing opposition as “terrorists.”

• Monday, November 12th 2018 - 07:11 UTC

  This year will again be positive for global cereal production, anticipates FAO

  

  The United Nations FAO has raised its forecast for global cereal production in 2018 to 2.601 million tons, primarily due to higher estimates for wheat production in Canada and China. Nonetheless, the new forecast remains 2.1 percent below the record level achieved in 2017.

• Thursday, November 1st 2018 - 08:28 UTC

  UK and Canadian lawmakers want to question Facebook's Zuckerberg on “fake news” and disinformation

  

  British and Canadian politicians have joined forces in calling on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to explain “failures of process” regarding the spread of propaganda on the social network. Leading MPs from both parliaments co-signed a letter to Mr Zuckerberg announcing an “international grand committee” on “disinformation and fake news” to be held at the end of November.

• Monday, October 8th 2018 - 08:39 UTC

  Canada chairs meeting to reform WTO, but has not invited US or China

  

  Canada has not invited the United States or China to a high-level meeting on reforming the World Trade Organization (WTO). The country will host a “small group of like-minded” trade ministers in Ottawa in late October to discuss the global trade body. Officials say countries like the US and China will be included at a later date in the reforms discussion process.

• Wednesday, October 3rd 2018 - 08:17 UTC

  Canada's largest private sector project: US$ 32bn LNG export terminal

  

  A major US$ 31.9bn liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Canada has received the go-ahead from its partners. The project is a joint venture between Royal Dutch Shell, Malaysia's Petronas, PetroChina, Korea Gas Corporation, and Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation. It is the single largest private sector investment project in Canada's history.

• Tuesday, October 2nd 2018 - 08:57 UTC

  Trump hails the launching of the United States/Mexico/Canada trade agreement

  

  After 14 months of talks between the United States and its closest allies, President Donald Trump celebrated the United States Mexico Canada Agreement, or USMCA, a new trade agreement that is poised to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA.

• Monday, October 1st 2018 - 08:42 UTC

  US and Canada reach a NAFTA framework pudate; “we have a trilateral deal”, sayd Mexican sources

  

  The US dollar slipped against the Canadian dollar on Monday as the United States and Canada reached a framework deal to update the North American Free Trade Agreement. The deal reached involves offering more dairy access to U.S. farmers as well as Canada agreeing to a side-letter arrangement effectively capping automobile exports to the United States.

• Thursday, September 27th 2018 - 09:08 UTC

  Trump rebuffs Trudeau claiming “Canada has treated the US very badly”

  

  US President Donald Trump confirmed on Wednesday that he had refused to meet Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, accusing Canada of treating the United States “very badly.”

• Thursday, August 30th 2018 - 08:23 UTC

  Canada and US expected to reach a new NAFTA deal by Friday deadline

  

  The leaders of the United States and Canada expressed optimism on Wednesday that they could reach new NAFTA deal by a Friday deadline as negotiators prepared to talk through the night, although Canada warned that a number of tricky issues remained.

• Monday, July 23rd 2018 - 06:53 UTC

  Mexico and Canada optimistic about NAFTA trade talks with the US

  

  The finance ministers for Mexico and Canada on Sunday said they were optimistic about NAFTA talks with the United States, even as trade tensions spurred by U.S. tariffs dominated the G20 meeting of world economic leaders in Argentina.