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​Map of the US-Canada border.
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The Captain Canuck effect: How a new nationalism is helping Canada

The United States and Canada have long prided themselves on sharing the world’s longest undefended border, a frontier routinely crossed by millions of people every year for work, visits with friends, shopping, or vacationing.

​President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress.
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Trump lays out a bold vision for second term

Six weeks into Donald Trump’s second presidency, he delivered his first major address. Speaking before a joint session of Congress late Tuesday, he highlighted some of the nearly 100 executive orders he has signed, touted cuts to the federal government, and outlined his bold vision for reshaping the US over the next four years.

​An Amazon warehouse in the Lachine neighborhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on Jan. 22, 2025.
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Hard Numbers: Amazon to close unionized Canadian facility, Pentagon sends troops to border, Quebec’s new AI infrastructure fund, Freeland abandons capital gains tax

​Canada's Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Marc Miller speaks at a press conference about the government's border plan as Public Safety and Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc listens, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, on Dec. 17, 2024.
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Canada does about-face on immigration

It was announced last Friday that Ottawa will pause new parent and grandparent sponsorship applications to address a 40,000-application backlog.

​A drone view shows the Canada-U.S. border between the U.S. state of New York and the Canadian province of Quebec, near Champlain, New York, U.S., December 6, 2024.
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Hard Numbers: Canada’s immigration crackdown shows results, BC free contraception measure boosts birth control, Pentagon flags China’s growing nuclear arsenal, Americans aren’t thrilled with their jobs, US government tells top pols to “get off the phone”

Liberals face two showdowns to Trump-proof Canada
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Liberals face two showdowns to Trump-proof Canada

As if Justin Trudeau isn’t dealing with enough. His Liberal Party is down in the polls and struggling amid a House of Commons shutdown led by the Conservatives. Now it has to manage an incoming Trump administration intent on extracting as much as it can from Canada.

​Lissa Smith poses with lawn signs in support of Kamala Harris, and a pillow someone threw in her yard after several signs, previously displayed on her lawn, were taken outside her home in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Oct. 27, 2024.
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Hard Numbers: Yard sign thefts rise in US, Canada’s defense pledges meet spending limit targets, Cocaine grapes cross border, Musk skips sweepstakes hearing, Who supports Trump’s tariff proposal?

​A group of migrants who said they were from Djibouti and Somalia follow railway tracks towards the Canada-U.S. border as seen from Emerson, Manitoba, Canada, March 27, 2017. Picture taken March 27, 2017.
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US deters asylum-seekers entering from Canada

The United States has changed its northern border policy in a bid to limit the number of asylum-seekers crossing into the country from Canada as the number of migrants seeking shelter in the US continues to rise.

​Canada's Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre speaks in the House of Commons.
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Poilievre is polling well despite crying "terror"

Canadian Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre jumped the gun last week, joining US Republicans in suggesting that terrorism was behind what turned out to be a tragic car accident at the Niagara Falls International Rainbow Bridge, giving Liberals a chance to bash him as a northern Republican.

Migrants share space at a makeshift shelter in Denver, Colo., on Friday, Jan. 13, 2023.
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Migrant and housing crises hit both sides of border

Denver, Colorado, is an American poster child for the challenges that arise when a housing crisis meets a rise in migration coupled with insufficient support for newcomers.