Regulation
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Airbus, Ottawa negotiated long-term requirements before inking CSeries deal
Sources say some terms were negotiated in advance by the government and Airbus, which include keeping 100 per cent of those employed at Bombardier’s Mirabel plant and repaying the recent $372-million federal loan to Bombardier
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Morneau limits scope of income reform to affect just 3% of private corporations
The tweak to Morneau’s original proposal comes after an onslaught of complaints that warned cracking down on passive investments could adversely affect middle-class entrepreneurs
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Enbridge opts not to seize environment group’s assets to pay court costs
Enbridge was authorized by the courts to take and sell the assets of environmental group Forest Ethics, which was ordered to pay court fees after it lost a court case against changes to Line 9, an Ontario to Quebec pipeline
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Industrial Ontario bakery fined after temp worker hurt by dough machine
The worker was cleaning a dough chunker on a production line at FGF Brands when the machine was reset and the blades rotated shut
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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”
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U.S. travel ban again struck down by federal court
A federal judge in Hawaii ruled against the latest restrictions, saying they ignore a federal appeals court ruling against the previous ban and are counter to “the founding principles of this nation”
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10 WTO member states denounce Trump’s ‘Buy American’ order
China and Taiwan have joined a number of traditional U.S. allies, including Canada, Isreal and the EU, in urging the U.S. to honour its WTO government procurement commitments
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NAFTA tensions erupt: Countries admit talks struggling, push deadline into 2018
There will be no “quick fix” to NAFTA. Canada, the U.S. and Mexico aren’t necessarily breaking up, but they’re now publicly bickering over everything from dairy and autos, to Buy American rules and whether trade deficits “matter”
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Ontario auditor general blasts Liberal government’s handling of hydro cuts
In order to “obscure” the true cost of its 25 per cent electricity rate cut, Bonnie Lysyk said the Ontario Liberals have created an “unnecessary, complex
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First nation asks Trudeau to help stop U.S. plans to drill in Arctic refuge
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation Chief Bruce Charlie called ‘the Serengeti of the Arctic,’ which will likely be devastated by planned U.S. oil exploration and production