Tag: Canada-US Tariffs 2025
What can London’s mayor, business officials do to ease tariff fears?
London’s mayor called city economic and business leaders together Friday to get a better idea how to prepare for threatened U.S. tariffs. City officials were joined by organizations from Middlesex County, both London hospitals and post-secondary institutions and construction, manufacturing and business groups for a city hall session with a clear agenda: Creating an “action […]
Cornies: Canadian ire over U.S. tariff threats not easily assuaged
It’s hard to imagine now, but for a teenage Southwestern Ontario farm boy in the 1960s, finding Canadian-made products wasn’t difficult.
Want to send the U.S. a message? Try this bumper sticker
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, one of London’s largest shopping malls has launched an old-fashioned bumper-sticker campaign to counter the cold shoulder the U.S. is showing Canada with a threatened trade war. In times of national uncertainty, “I thought who do we really love? We love our country right now,” said Sarah Imrie, marketing […]
Q+A: Ex-premier David Peterson on Doug Ford, Donald Trump and the peril of polls
David Peterson offers an insider’s view of the Ontario election, the recent tariff scrap with the U.S. and provincial election campaigns.
London jobless rate rises to 7.1%, and now Donald Trump’s tariff threat looms
The London area’s unemployment rate edged up in January despite the region posting strong job gains, new figures show. That marks the third straight month both economic markers have risen – in one case, that’s encouraging; in the other, not so much – for the London region, which also includes St. Thomas, Strathroy and portions […]
Pro-Canada sales (from the U.S., too) boom at Arva Flour Mill
Canada’s oldest water-powered flour mill is riding a business boom from the buy-Canadian push prompted by the threatened U.S. trade war.
Ontario Hockey League makes decision on pre-game Canada, U.S. anthems
Jeering at sporting events began after President Donald Trump threatened to impose a 25% tariff on most Canadian goods entering the U.S.
Prime minister hopeful Mark Carney visits London, praises Trudeau’s tariff poise
Mark Carney says he’s ready to stand up for Canada. The federal Liberal leadership hopeful made a stop in downtown London on Tuesday night to speak to supporters at Joe Kool’s. “This is a critical moment in our country’s history and I think we all sense it,” Carney said. It’s the second such moment in […]
Prime minister hopeful Mark Carney visits London, praises Trudeau’s tariff poise
Mark Carney says he’s ready to stand up for Canada. The federal Liberal leadership hopeful made a stop in downtown London on Tuesday night to speak to supporters at Joe Kool’s. “This is a critical moment in our country’s history and I think we all sense it,” Carney said. It’s the second such moment in […]
Trump tariffs: Buy Canadian mantra surfaces at London city hall
Though the threat of a U.S.-Canada trade war is on the back burner, city officials are thinking about how London can avoid the pain