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In the news today: Trump tariff looms, LGBTQ+ monument opens, Alberta cave rescue
Trump’s tariff threat on $28 billion in Canadian goods was delayed until Saturday, while Ottawa unveiled a monument honoring LGBTQ+ persecution and a caver was freed in Alberta.
- President Donald Trump's 50 per cent tariff on $28 billion in Canadian goods takes effect Saturday, after officials extended the Wednesday deadline to finalize a trade agreement.
- Trump threatened the new duties in July to retaliate against Canada's booze bans, auto tariffs, and quotas restricting tariff-free access for U.S. dairy, prompting urgent negotiations.
- In Ottawa, the national monument 'Thunderhead' officially opens today, honoring roughly 9,000 public servants and military members dismissed during the Cold War for their sexual orientation or gender identity.
- Rescuers successfully freed a caver from the 'Psych Squeeze' in Canmore's Rat's Nest Cave on Saturday, using volunteer-built radio technology in an operation involving 13 cave rescuers and 10 firefighters.
- Opposition to Ontario's proposed nuclear power plant in Port Hope is mounting, with residents citing the community's fraught 20th-century history cleaning up radioactive waste from uranium refinery operations.
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Leaning Left12Leaning Right0Center7Last UpdatedBias Distribution63% Left
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- 63% of the sources lean Left
63% Left
L 63%
C 37%
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