Hour 4 of Ottawa Now for Tues. May 27th, 2025
May 27, 2025
We have officially entered the start of Prom Season! But, as the Canada-US trade war drags on, are today’s prom dresses becoming unaffordable? Is this impacting business for the stores that are selling them? Kristy Cameron digs deeper with Chantal Larocque and Shirley Barresi, the co-owners of All That Glitters Bridal. Plus, we deliver the latest breaking news as it happens, right here on CFRA’s Ottawa Now.
Unpublished Newswire
For the hundreds of Canadian steelworkers who lost their jobs this year amid President Donald Trump’s trade war, talk of reaching a trade deal between Canada and the U.S. is coming too little, too late.
For Trump, the effects — driving down imports, boosting the U.S. steel industry and winning concessions from Canada — seem to be getting him what he wants.
Initially faced with a 25 per cent tariff on exports to the U.S., which ballooned to 50 per cent in June,
Canadian steel is desperate for a resolution.
Trump imposed the levies under
Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act,...
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