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Future of Bombardier’s other commercial aircraft unclear: analysts
The Montreal-based company’s CSeries deal with Airbus should allow it to shift some resources to its business jet programs, but where the Q400 turboprop and aging CRJ aircraft fit into Bombardier’s business may be more complicated
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‘The U.S. is not a dictatorship’ Veteran MP says it’s time for Congress to do its job on NAFTA
Bob Nault, who heads the House of Commons foreign affairs committee, says Trump and his administration should “let the negotiators do their job, and do it quickly with a very firm understanding of what the direction is”
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Airbus, Bombardier plan for long CSeries partnership despite take-out clause
The European plane maker has the option to buy out Bombardier’s stake in the aircraft program in about seven years and take full ownership of the planes the Montreal firm spent billions developing
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Boeing will ‘throw everything it has got’ into blocking CSeries from U.S., says Airbus CEO
Chief executive Tom Enders believes Boeing, which launched a trade petition against the CSeries, won’t give up easily
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Eight options for Trump’s border wall taking shape on Mexico’s border [WATCH]
The models, which cost the government up to $500,000 each, must be able to withstand at least an hour of punishment from a sledgehammer, pickaxe, torch, chisel or battery-operated tools while being “esthetically pleasing” when viewed from the U.S. side
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Japanese officials raid Kobe Steel offices over falsified inspections
The investigations by regulators, automakers, aircraft manufacturers and other customers of Kobe Steel followed the company’s disclosure that inspections data on a slew of products was faked or manipulated
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Deadline to decide on Super Hornet purchase is rapidly approaching
The U.S. offer of Super Hornet fighter jets expires at the end of the year, and missing that deadline carries a risk that the price will go up or the planes will have to be delivered later
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OPG spending $25M to retrofit century-old Ranney Falls hydro plant
The project will add new capacity to the Campbellford, Ont. power station that has been generating electricity since before the Great Depression
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Google sister company to help build high tech community on Toronto waterfront
Alphabet-owned Sidewalk Labs has been chosen to build a smarter, greener neighbourhood on Toronto’s once-industrial eastern waterfront.Google will also relocate its Canadian headquarters to headline the new development
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U.S. Congress report says Trump’s got it wrong on NAFTA
The report from the republican-led Congress says it’s not feasible to use trade agreements as a tool to decrease trade deficit because those imbalances “are determined by underlying macroeconomic fundamentals”