Mexico
Mexican union declares victory in strike at 48 border plants
The mass strike erupted after President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador decreed a doubling of the minimum wage in Mexico’s border zones.
Mexican border strikers win agreements at 27 of 45 plants
Factories make auto parts, medical equipment, plastics and other goods; more than 33% of the city’s 130 border plants affected.
Unifor calls for boycott of Mexican GM vehicles in escalation of Oshawa fight
Some GM vehicles, including the Chevrolet Blazer, Trax and GMC Terrain are made only in Mexico.
Trump pleads on TV for wall funding to fix border ‘crisis’
Dems say he played on fear, not facts.
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Aurora Cannabis to acquire Mexican company following partnership
Farmacias now Mexico’s first federally licensed importer of raw materials containing THC.
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Trump to kill old NAFTA to push Congress to approve USMCA
New agreement not popular with some Democrats and Republicans.
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Get tough with General Motors Trump style, union head urges Trudeau
Jerry Dias wants GM to reverse plans to cut more than 14,000 jobs, including 2,500 production workers in Oshawa, Ont.
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Morneau hopes new NAFTA deal signed next week, stresses tariff issue is separate [UPDATED]
He says Canada is working with the U.S. to solve the tit-for-tat tariff dispute; won’t make one set of negotiations contingent on another.
US ‘might’ lift tariffs once new trade deal is signed: incoming Mexican foreign minister
Marcelo Ebrard offered few details Monday on the timing of the trade pact’s ratification.
As Canada legalizes pot, other countries likely to follow
Canada is the second country in the world to legalize cannabis, but others could join us very soon.
The winners and losers in the new NAFTA
The new deal is preferable to economic chaos.
Liberals hope relief at getting a deal will trump anger over concessions
Tories accuse Trudeau of “capitulating” to US President Donald Trump as united NAFTA front collapses.
New trade deal doesn’t address climate change: environmentalists
A chapter on the environment, but critics such as the Council of Canadians call it weak and unenforceable.
US procurement demand on Canada, Mexico fading from NAFTA: sources [UPDATED]
Competing claims an example of the animosity between the two countries since Mexico reached its own NAFTA deal with the US.
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s imaginary wages, trade falsehoods
Another week of falsehoods on trade, other issues.
