As the trade war between the U.S. and China escalates, the biggest questions are which side has more leverage and which is willing to tolerate more pain. China exported more than $400 billion US to the United States last year, much more than American companies sold to China. That’s why the Trump administration claims it…
Wink Martindale, the genial host of such hit game shows as Gambit and Tic-Tac-Dough who also did one of the first recorded television interviews with a young Elvis Presley, has died. He was 91. Martindale died Tuesday at Eisenhower Health in Rancho Mirage, according to his publicist Brian Mayes. Martindale had been battling lymphoma for a year….
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After months of trade war back-and-forth, the impact of tariffs is starting to make its way onto our dining room tables, according to experts working in the Canadian food and grocery industry. Small grocers in particular have been paying more for the products that line their shelves, said Gary Sands, senior vice-president of the Canadian…
Eighty years after her uncle Welby Patterson died on a European battlefield in the final days of the Second World War, Maidy Keir will see him being recognized at a museum exhibit in the Netherlands in a way he never really was back home. “I think it will be very emotional. I’ve always been very…
Liberal Leader Mark Carney said Monday it was “totally unacceptable” for some members of the party’s war room to plant phoney campaign buttons at a conservative gathering in Ottawa last week, and those campaign staffers have been “reassigned” as a result. “I was unaware of this behaviour but on behalf of my campaign I apologize for…
This First Person article is the experience of Nino Antadze, an associate professor at the University of Prince Edward Island. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ. I was a PhD student at the University of Waterloo when Russia invaded my homeland — the small country of Georgia, which straddles…
A growing number of left-leaning voters across B.C. are thinking of voting strategically as polls show the province has some of the tightest races in the country. J.B. Burrows, founder and managing director of SmartVoting.ca, a site that helps voters choose left-leaning candidates in their riding that it believes are most likely to win, says Vancouver…
The New York Rangers and the Detroit Red Wings were eliminated from the playoffs with losses on Saturday, meaning for the first time since they all entered the league in the mid-1920s, none of the Rangers, Red Wings, Boston Bruins or Chicago will be in the post-season. The four American teams of the Original Six that…
For many people, just the thought of bed bugs, cockroaches or mice is enough to make their skin crawl. Now imagine finding them in a hospital. Many of Montreal’s hospitals are aging or undergoing renovations, creating perfect spaces where critters can thrive. Documents obtained by CBC News show how much each major hospital spent on…