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U.S. President Donald Trump extended a deadline by 75 days for Chinese technology company ByteDance to sell U.S. assets of popular short video app TikTok to a non-Chinese buyer or face a ban that was supposed to have taken effect in January under a 2024 law.

Thousands of businesses convened on Hanover Germany this week for one of the largest industrial technology fairs in the world at a time when many nations, including Canada, are trying to adapt to U.S. tariffs and protectionism.

The worldwide sell-off for financial markets slammed into an even higher, scarier gear on Friday after China matched U.S. President Donald Trump's big raise in tariffs in an escalating trade war, with markets facing their worst crisis since the COVID crash. 

Statistics Canada says this is the biggest monthly job loss since January 2022, and comes as the U.S. posts unexpectedly high job gains.

Immigration advocates are suing the Trump administration over its coming registration requirement for non-U.S. citizens staying longer than 29 days, offering a possible reprieve for Canadian snowbirds.

U.S. President Donald Trump showed off a giant chart on Wednesday full of new “reciprocal” tariffs, which start at 10 per cent and grow steeper for countries with larger trade deficits with the U.S. But experts quickly noticed that these numbers don't add up. So what are these tariffs actually based on?

The Trump administration announced a new suite of trade measures on dozens of countries Wednesday. Here are answers to some frequently asked tariff questions.

On the one hand, the U.S. president wants to upend 70 years of global trade and fundamentally change the way the world does business. But in handing out exemptions and carve-outs, he’s trying to do that in a way that doesn’t cause much pain for American businesses and consumers.