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From: Lawrence HermanTo: Trade war watchersRe: The Unheralded Protection Against Unfair Chinese EV Pricing
Donald Trump has threatened Canada with 100-percent, across-the-board tariffs because Canada has agreed to allow 49,000 Chinese EVs to enter at reduced tariffs in return for the removal of duties on canola and oth...
February 3, 2026 – More than nine million working Canadians lack access to a workplace retirement plan, with the gap most pronounced among employees of small- and mid-sized businesses, according to a new C.D Howe Institute report. As a result, many are left to make inconsistent, often costly, savings decisions that increase the risk of inadequate retirement preparedness.
...by Keith Ambachtsheer and Alex Mazer
Canada ranked 16th out of 52 countries in an authoritative Global Pension Index in 2025, which identified limited coverage of occupational pension plans, particularly in the private sector, as the country’s greatest area for improvement. More than nine million Canadian employees lack access to a workplace ret...Countries’ ability to meet their NATO defence spending targets is predicated on the fiscal capacity to do so. The graph shows NATO countries’ 2024 defence spending versus their debt, as a share of GDP, with the horizontal line demarcating the 2025 NATO spending target for core defence spending (2.0 percent, increasing to 3.5 percent for 2035) and vertic...