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With only weeks until spring planting on both sides of the border gets underway, Canadian and U.S. farmers, already facing low grain prices, are bracing for another economic blow: even bigger fertilizer bills amid a North American trade war. Some farming supply costs already turned sharply higher due to trade tensions between the U.S. and Canada. After threatening tariffs for months, U.S. President Donald Trump enacted 25 per cent duties on most Canadian products on Tuesday before announcing a one-month reprieve on some goods, including fertilizers, on Thursday.Canada said on Thursday it will delay a planned second wave of retaliatory tariffs until April 2.Many U.S. farmers need to add potassium to their soils, so they use potash fertilizer – much of which comes…

Outside of the “super-premium” collector wines, cabernet sauvignon has lost favour to more fashionable varieties for everyday drinking. But, the “anything but what Dad drinks” market may have to think again as affordable cab sauv and cab merlot often prove more enjoyable than a slew of cheap pinots and experimental batch new varieties. Is it time for a revisit?Hayshed Hill, Pitchfork 2023 Cabernet Merlot, Margaret River, WA $17 Remarkably, for a wine at this price, this soft quaffer has spent 10 months in oak barrels before bottling. It’s plush up front, tapering to a fine, gentle finish. Lavishly fruity with…

Deadly fighting has erupted in Syria’s coastal region, a longtime bastion of support for Bashar al-Assad, the ousted president.

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Friday establishing a White House Task Force for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which will be hosted by the U.S., Canada and Mexico, a White House official told Fox News Digital. Trump will serve as the chair of the task force, while Vice President JD Vance will serve as the vice chair, the official confirmed. An executive director, who has not been named, will manage and oversee daily operations.  U.S. President Donald Trump makes an announcement in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 3, 2025. (REUTERS/Leah Millis)The…

Sunland Park, New Mexico — On a recent afternoon, CBS News accompanied U.S. Border Patrol agent Claudio Herrera along this rugged stretch of the U.S. southern border.Herrera said the area, located within Border Patrol’s sprawling El Paso sector, has long been a hotspot for the illicit movement of people and drugs. But the situation there has changed markedly in recent weeks.”The activity is very slow,” Herrera said along the New Mexico border, which is patrolled by El Paso sector agents. “There’s multiple factors attached to why we have seen a significant drop in apprehensions recently.”He continued: “One of them, of…

President Trump said on Friday that he was “strongly considering” imposing sanctions and tariffs on Russia until a cease-fire and permanent peace deal is reached in its war against Ukraine.In a post on his social media site, Truth Social, Trump said he was “strongly considering” what he described as “large scale” sanctions, because of the perilous state of the war, now in its fourth year.His post came as Russia unleashed a furious bombardment aimed at critical Ukrainian infrastructure overnight on Thursday and on Friday. Ukraine’s energy minister, German Galushchenko, said Russian forces launched a “massive missile and drone” assault on…

The federal government on Friday unveiled a list of 50 pre-approved housing designs as part of its promised catalogue aimed at speeding up construction of homes across the country. The pre-approved designs are aimed at cutting red tape and reducing approval time for new builds and include designs for rowhouses, fourplexes, sixplexes, and accessory dwelling units across the country. The design for a fourplex in Quebec, as shown in the federal government’s housing design catalogue released on Friday, March 7. (Credit: Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada). CMHC Specific designs were released for all of Canada’s provinces and territories. Story continues…

One state’s peak union body is pushing for a huge change in the leave entitlements guaranteed to Aussie workers.

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United States President Donald Trump has issued a statement threatening Russia with tariffs and sanctions, amid accusations that he favours Moscow over the country it has invaded, Ukraine. On his Truth Social platform on Friday, Trump avoided condemning Russia’s invasion, which has been denounced as an unjustified crime of aggression under the United Nations Charter. Instead, he focused on Russia’s latest bombardment, which happened just days after the US announced it would temporarily stop sharing military intelligence with Ukraine. “Based on the fact that Russia is absolutely ‘pounding’ Ukraine on the battlefield right now, I am strongly considering large scale…