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Donald Trump signed three separate executive orders on the tariffs, risking a new trade war. “We need to protect Americans, and it is my duty as President to ensure the safety of all. I made a promise on my campaign to stop the flood of illegal aliens and drugs from pouring across our borders, and…
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Donald Trump is expected to sign an order imposing hefty new tariffs of 25% on goods from Mexico and Canada and 10% on imports from China. File | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an order on Saturday (February 1, 2025) imposing hefty new tariffs of 25% on goods from…
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Ottawa: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that Canada’s response will be “forceful but reasonable” if US decide to impose 25 per cent tariffs as threatened by President Donald Trump, The Globe and Mail reported. President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on its neighbour Canada and Mexico as early as Saturday. “If the president…
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Years ago, during my one and only trip to Pakistan to report on the 50th anniversary of independence for a Western media outlet, I had the pleasure of meeting some bright, articulate students at the famed Government College in Lahore. Feeling magnanimous (and admittedly swept by their genuine warmth), I decided to drop a bombshell…
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Ottawa: Canada will cap the number of international students allowed to enter the country for a second year in a row in 2025, as the government continues to try to ease pressure on housing, healthcare and other services. Canada will issue 437,000 study permits this year, a 10% reduction from 2024, according to a Friday…
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Ottawa: Mark Carney, the former governor of Canada’s central bank, on Thursday launched his bid to succeed Justin Trudeau as Liberal Party leader and prime minister, immediately becoming a frontrunner in the race. The 59-year-old Harvard- and Oxford-educated economist kicked off his campaign at a hockey rink in Edmonton, Alberta where he grew up. “I’m…
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The resignation of Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau has sparked intense discussions among immigration experts about the future of international students there. Many experts view Trudeau’s tenure from 2015 to 2023 as a golden era for international students, particularly Indians, who greatly benefited from liberal immigration policies. According to data from Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship…
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Finally, Justin Trudeau decided that he will have to quit to save himself any further ignominy. His politics and his career have been adrift for a while now with no seeming way out of the morass he was sinking into with each passing day. It must have seemed to him that he was being abandoned…
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Washington DC: After teasing the “dawn of America’s golden age”, the US President-elect has shared a new map of the United States, which incorporated Canada as its territory. This comes hours after Mr Trump threatened to use “economic force” to absorb Canada into the United States. Taking to his social media platform Truth Social, the…
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Ottawa: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday hit back at US President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to use “economic force” to absorb Canada into the United States, saying there is no possibility of merging countries. “There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States,” Mr Trudeau wrote on…
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