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Xi Jinping has been preparing for Trump’s trade war for 12 years – it may not have been long enough

China is standing firm against a forced decoupling with the United States, but the economic costs may be great
Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during a bilateral meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, unseen, at Diaoyutai Guest House in Beijing, China, Friday, April 11, 2025. (Andres Martinez Casares/Pool Photo via AP)

China ‘not afraid,’ Xi says, as Beijing raises tariffs on U.S. goods to 125%

opinion

Does Donald Trump really think he can win a trade war against China?

John Rapley
John Rapley
election 2025

Conservative government would not pass law restricting abortion, Poilievre says

The leader of the Conservatives would not say whether he would allow his members to vote freely on the issue
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre speaks to supporters at a rally in Woolwich, Ont., on Thursday, April 10, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nick Iwanyshyn

Majority of Canadians support construction of East-West oil and gas pipeline, poll finds

For farmers of Souris, PEI, every pressing campaign issue is a hot potato

Auto Industry

GM to temporarily halt production, lay off 500 workers at plant in Ingersoll, Ont.

The shutdown and layoffs of nearly half of the factory’s employees are ‘devastating,’ says the union representing the workers
A sign hangs at General Motors (GM) BrightDrop unit's CAMI EV Assembly in Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada, March 13, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio
Personal Finance

The big guide to auto insurance

Our Big Guide to Auto Insurance breaks down how much different factors – from vehicle model to your age and location – impact your premium. Plus, tips on how to get the best deal for you
Spring

Rite of spring: Cherry blossoms bring out crowds to what is usually Lower Mainland’s most barren park

Larry Berg Flight Path Park in Richmond, B.C., near Vancouver airport, draws people to sakura grove
4/5/25- Richmond, B.C.- Vivi Wang has come to enjoy the Cherry Blossom season at Larry Berg Flight Path Park which draws crowds, traffic Jams and many happy and wonderfully dressed folks out to witness the seasonal splendour. The park is usually more or less empty aside from a few airplane enthusiasts with the scene punctuated by low flying planes coming into land at YVR every 5-10 minutes. This time of year however crowds flock to the trees with their low blossom filled branches allowing people to take photos right in the blossoms. - Alana Paterson for The Globe and Mail

Make your garden your happy place with joyful blooms, bright colours and, yes, even goofy gnomes

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Will Nediger, who placed second overall at the 2025 American crossword puzzle tournament, poses for a photo in his home, London, Ontario. (Brett Gundlock/The Globe and Mail)

Meet the Canadian linguist taking the crossword world by storm

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 28: The 2025 Doomsday Clock time is displayed after the time reveal held by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the United States Institute of Peace on January 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Doomsday Clock, currently the nearest it has been to midnight at 89 seconds, is a symbol for how close humanity is to a “global catastrophe”. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
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Why the world is better than you think

Behind the headlines, and largely unreported, the basic measures of human well-being have continued to improve in recent decades
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Business and Finance

Tareq Hadhad attends the Oath of Citizenship ceremony at The Canadian Museum of Immigration in Halifax on Jan. 15, 2020. Sheila Gibb, treasurer at the Advocates' Society, stepped down from her role, saying the decision to disinvite Tareq Hadhad, owner of confectionary Peace by Chocolate, "caused hurt and trauma." THE CANADIAN PRESS/Riley Smith

The Advocates’ Society cancels dinner after controversy over Syrian refugee keynote speaker

Canadian snowbirds are selling off Florida properties, the Home of the Week and more top real estate stories

Home of the Week: 234520 Concession 2, West Grey, Ont.

Pitching in: Fundraising for Special Olympics Canada

Last month the Etheringtons (Mark, Sean, Brian and Paul shown here left to right) were awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal in recognition of their contribution to Special Olympics and the creation of Motionball. Handout

Which Canadian stock is still going strong as markets slump? Take our business and investing news quiz

Trader Peter Herits, center, works on the options floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Demand for car, RV rentals soars as more Canadians look to travel domestically amid trade war

Mike McNaught (left) and Will Thompson, co-founders of RVezy, Airbnb of RVs, with one of the rentals in Ottawa, Wednesday, May 19, 2021. Ashley Fraser/Globe & Mail

Opinion and analysis

Wall Street’s Dr. Frankensteins are waking up to what they’ve created in the White House

Rita Trichur
Rita Trichur

Why earning and burning your credit card loyalty points matter

Barry Choi
Barry Choi

In the geopolitical fight for the future economy, Trump shoots the U.S. in the foot

Khuram Hussain
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump attends a bilateral meeting with China's President Xi Jinping during the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo

Actions you can do now to manage your career well-being in this era of uncertainty

Eileen Chadnick
Large group of people sitting in waiting room before job interview for their potential business position. Focus is on happy black woman.

Did anyone even ask for Trump’s bonkers economic policies?

Kevin Yin
Kevin Yin

Chart to watch

These investors love cheap stocks. Finding them is still tricky, though

Some of the reluctance to pound the table in favour of stocks during the selloff likely comes from the root mindset of value investing

Why this analytics CEO makes time to volunteer once a week

The best fixed and variable mortgage rates in Canada for April 10, 2025

Greater Toronto home sales soared 37 per cent last month compared with the same month a year ago as lower borrowing costs associated with fixed-rate mortgages lured some buyers back to the market. A real estate sold sign is shown in a Toronto west end neighbourhood May 16, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graeme Roy

Competition Bureau investigating Express Scripts practices in pharmacy sector

Activist investor Carl Icahn urged Cigna shareholders to vote against the health insurer's $52 billion purchase of Express Scripts, citing regulatory hurdles and Amazon. Fred Katayama reports.

Telus dropped 3,300 net jobs in 2024, CEO earnings decline

Telus headquarters in downtown Vancouver, B.C. framed by cherry blossoms on April 1, 2025. Several of Canada’s largest telecom companies have recently begun selling stakes in their infrastructure to monetize their existing assets and combat debt. [Isabella Falsetti/Globe and Mail]

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Mark Carney warns of signs that global economies are slowing amid Donald Trump’s tariffs

Fixing Canada’s blind spot on free trade

For farmers of Souris, PEI, every pressing campaign issue is a hot potato

China ‘not afraid,’ Xi says, as Beijing raises tariffs on U.S. goods to 125%

Opinion

Does Donald Trump really think he can win a trade war against China?

John Rapley

Majority of Canadians support construction of East-West oil and gas pipeline, poll finds

Canada will not be subject to blanket 10-per-cent U.S. duty on most imports: envoy

Carney says he had never heard of pro-Beijing group despite photos with its leaders

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Gynecologist Dr. Jen Gunter plans to return to Canada after raising concerns Trump is dismantling U.S. health care

Dr. Jen Gunter is photographed in Toronto on Wednesday, June 5, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
opinion

In the game of tariff chicken, China and the EU will capitulate before Trump does

Eric Reguly
People walk past an Apple Store along a shopping street in Beijing on April 8, 2025. China vowed on April 8 to "fight to the end" against fresh tariffs of 50 percent threatened by US President Donald Trump, further aggravating a trade war that has already wiped trillions off global markets. (Photo by WANG Zhao / AFP) (Photo by WANG ZHAO/AFP via Getty Images)
opinion

If Canada wants closer European ties, we need European privacy standards, not American

Matt Malone
FILE PHOTO: European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, April 20, 2016. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir/File Photo
opinion

Canada must plan for life without Elon Musk’s Starlink

Rob McMahon and Peter Garland
FILE PHOTO: SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk gestures after arriving on the red carpet for the Axel Springer award, in Berlin, Germany, December 1, 2020. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke/Pool/File Photo

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Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney holds a Liberal Party election campaign rally in Calgary, Alberta, Canada April 8, 2025. REUTERS/Todd Korol

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu rebukes Mark Carney over Gaza comment at rally

Alberta bill would enable hydrogen home heating, electricity market remodelling

Alberta Law Foundation board members quit over bill giving minister power on grants

World

Jennifer Vasquez Sura, wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man who was erroneously deported by the Trump administration last month after a judge's ruling prohibited the man's removal to his home country of El Salvador, is comforted as she faces reporters with attorney Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg during a press conference following a status hearing outside U.S. District Court, in this still image taken from video in Greenbelt, Maryland, U.S., April 11, 2025. REUTERS/Greg Savoy

Judge rebukes Trump administration, demands to know status of illegally deported man

Mexico to send water delivery immediately to Texas farmers amid treaty tensions with U.S.

U.S. federal judge sides with Donald Trump in allowing immigration enforcement in houses of worship

Politics

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre speaks during a campaign stop in Milton, Ont., Thursday, April 10, 2025.

Conservative Party distances itself from supporters questioning election polls

Former Australian PM Morrison says price of entry to AUKUS is higher than Canada’s current defence spending level

Federal officials proposed regular intelligence-informed briefings for opposition leaders, memo shows

Sports

Canadian Tire Centre, the home of the Ottawa Senators, is pictured on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Ottawa Senators renew arena naming rights deal with Canadian Tire

Mike McEwen outscores Matt Dunstone in early draw at AMJ Players’ Championship

Canada tops Romania 3-0 in Billie Jean King Cup qualification tie

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Why fragrance is the ultimate travel souvenir

Health & Fitness

Microgreens deliver a hefty amount of many vitamins and minerals, as well as protective phytochemicals. Microgreens grown at Redfroglab Inc., an urban modular farm in Montreal, on April 22, 2024.
food for thought

Opting for microgreens over lettuce amid tariff war? Here’s how they stack up

Leslie Beck

Are functional mushrooms the secret weapon for well-being?

strength & fitness

Taking your run from the treadmill to the road? A former Olympic runner shares her tips

Real Estate

Home of the Week: 234520 Concession 2, West Grey, Ont.
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‘A wildlife paradise’: Heritage home comfort and acres of privacy

done deal

Size helped Distillery District condo stand out in a saturated market

opinion

B.C. developers push back on foreign buyer restrictions

Kerry Gold

Drive

New vehicles on a truck outside the Jaguar Land Rover factory in Solihul, England, on Wednesday, April 9, 2025. The first Land Rover rolled off the production line here in 1948, and the town hosts the flagship plant for its successor, the Range Rover. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)

How Trump’s tariffs land in a British carmaking town

EV industry could add $104-billion to Canada’s economy by 2040, report forecasts

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Off-road upgrades add more sport to Ford’s baby Bronco

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Canada’s health information institute pushing for countrywide standardization of patient data

A paramedic is seen outside ambulances parked at the entrance to the emergency department at Richmond General Hospital, in Richmond, B.C., Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

How transparent is your city? Audit of freedom of information requests finds vast differences

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