Canada, U.S. must unclog border: business groups
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Canada and the United States must take steps now to unclog their border for exporters, who are hurting from costly delays and fees due to post-2001 security concerns, business leaders said on Wednesday.
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Building a fence in an attempt to secure the U.S. border with Mexico is impractical and would simply lead illegal immigrants to cross elsewhere, according to former U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents and other experts.
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These are not the best days in political life, on either side of the border that divides North America. Canadian politics is in an advanced state of drift, the Prime Minister and premiers posturing over competing
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Some businesses and lawmakers are worried that new identification requirements going into effect Thursday at the borders with Canada and Mexico could create widespread confusion and delays and discourage some people from making the trip.
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Canada will do its best to ensure that the United States and other major polluting nations currently outside the Kyoto climate change accord join a new global campaign to curb emissions of greenhouse gases, Prime Minister Paul Martin said on Wednesday.
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US textile-trade groups said yesterday that they would pursue safeguards that target the threat of Chinese imports flooding the US market once quotas expire Jan. 1. The groups - the American
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A drought-hit resort town in Canada's Pacific rain forest is trucking in water to avert a total shutdown, but hotels and other businesses will have to severely limit consumption, the mayor said on Friday.
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Defying Congress, the Department of Homeland Security is pushing to tighten identification requirements at U.S. land borders starting Jan. 31, when it no longer will allow Americans or Canadians to enter the country by presenting a driver's license or declaring their citizenship.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - The lobby group representing the US softwood lumber industry demanded today that its government appeal a US trade body ruling favourable to Canada&#39;s industry.
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New procedures have been put into place at U.S. borders to stop flagged travelers such as the tuberculosis patient who sneaked across the Canadian border last month, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
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Canada is considering options to clamp down on the &#36;850 billion a year cross-border Internet pharmacy prescription drug trade by month's end, a Canadian health ministry official said Wednesday.
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A NAFTA panel has ruled in Canada&#39;s favour for the third time in the softwood lumber dispute and ordered the US government to stop fighting the rulings
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TORONTO - Canadians must stop Americans from using Internet pharmacies to raid its medicine chest or face a drug shortage, a coalition of Canadian groups representing seniors, pharmacies and patients has warned.    The groups, claiming to represent 10 million Canadians, or about one-third the population, called on the Canadian government Monday to ban prescription drug exports...
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The US Department of Homeland Security has announced an important change that will affect many Canadian residents who travel on passports from other countries.
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Two U.S. consumer groups on Monday  urged the United States to delay reopening its border to young  Canadian cattle due to concerns that Canada may find more cases  of mad cow disease.
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An environmental coalition is calling for a halt on international ships entering the U.S. Great Lakes.
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Leading U.S. business groups on Thursday urged stronger U.S government action to stop trafficking of pirated or counterfeit goods, which they said costs the U.S. economy between $200 to $250 billion per year.