Peterborough Journal: This City Once Made Much of What Canada Bought. But No More.

by | Jan 21, 2018 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Canada, Capital, Economics, Factories and Manufacturing, Finance, General Electric Company, International Trade and World Market, Labor and Jobs, North American Free Trade Agreement, Peterborough (Canada), Politics and Government, Shutdowns (Institutional), Unemployment, Working Capital

With the closing of plants like a 126-year-old G.E. factory, many in Peterborough, Ontario, scoff at the idea that Nafta benefits only Canada and Mexico.

Canada Attacks U.S. Tariffs by Taking Case to World Trade Organization

by | Jan 10, 2018 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Canada, Capital, Customs (Tariff), Economics, Finance, International Trade and World Market, Lighthizer, Robert E, Non-Bank Loans, North American Free Trade Agreement, United States International Relations, United States Politics and Government, Working Capital

A sweeping challenge to the Trump administration’s “America First” policies could add to tensions already frayed by Nafta negotiations.

E. Coli Deaths Linked to Romaine Lettuce, Officials Say

by | Jan 5, 2018 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Canada, Capital, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, E Coli (Bacteria), Economics, Finance, Food Contamination and Poisoning, Non-Bank Loans, Romaine lettuce, United States, Working Capital

Officials in Canada blamed the leafy green, but their American counterparts are still investigating the cause of an outbreak in the United States.

Homeland Security Increasingly Means Putting Agents Outside the Homeland

by | Dec 26, 2017 | Airport Security, Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Canada, Capital, Colombia, Costa Rica, Customs and Border Protection (US), Drug Abuse and Traffic, Economics, Ecuador, Finance, Germany, Homeland Security Department, Human Trafficking, Illegal Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (US), Non-Bank Loans, Smuggling, South Africa, Tanzania, United States Politics and Government, Working Capital

Set up to defend the United States, the Homeland Security Department is going beyond American borders to fight foreign threats from abroad.

U.K.’s Next Brexit Agony: What Sort of Trade Deal?

by | Dec 17, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Canada, Capital, Davis, David (1948- ), Economics, European Union, Finance, Great Britain, Great Britain Withdrawal from EU (Brexit), International Trade and World Market, May, Theresa M, Norway, Politics and Government, Singapore, Working Capital

Britain’s next step will be as divisive as any. It must decide whether to model future ties with the European Union on Norway, Canada, a Canada-Singapore hybrid, or something else.