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Nova Scotia’s North Brewing Company has joined more than 40 other breweries across Canada in the Glorious and Free campaign. The campaign has breweries from coast to coast to coast brewing their own version of Ottawa’s Dominion City Brewing Company Glorious and Free IPA using local ingredients.“Making things better and being a positive force, you know, on a local scale,” said North Brewing Company president Peter Burbridge. “While things are huge and scary on a macro-scale, it’s sort of like, let’s look at some positive things on a micro-scale.”He adds that North Brewing sourced its malt from a company in…

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Global equities rose on Monday on signs that consumer electronics imported into the US from China might escape the steepest of Donald Trump’s tariffs, as stock markets regained their footing after the turmoil created last week by the international trade war.Futures tracking the S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 were up more than 1 per cent, after the White House late on Friday excluded smartphones and other consumer electronics from steep tariffs it introduced earlier this month, including the 125 per…

BANGKOK: Thailand’s finance and commerce ministers will lead a delegation to the United States to meet Trump administration officials and push for relief from planned heavy tariffs, a government spokesperson said on Monday (Apr 14). An advance team led by Finance Minister Pichai Chunhavajira will travel to the United States on Thursday for meetings with private sector groups, with Commerce Minister Pichai Naripthaphan to join later, spokesperson Jirayu Houngsub said. The Thai delegation expects to meet with US government representatives on Monday, Apr 21, he said. Thailand is facing a 36 per cent tariff under US President Donald Trump’s trade…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Belgian insurer Ageas has struck a £1.3bn deal to buy rival Esure from private equity group Bain Capital, in a move that will create the UK’s third-biggest motor and home insurer.Ageas said it would pay cash for Esure in a deal that will expand its operations in the UK. Esure, which also trades under brands including Sheilas’ Wheels and First Alternative, has been owned by Bain since it paid £1.2bn to take the group private in 2018.Esure was set up in 2000…

As Ukraine contends with a war raging on its eastern front and Russian attacks on its cities, one lawmaker is working on something that he says could help the nation: legalizing pornography.Yaroslav Zhelezniak, deputy chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament’s finance committee, is leading a push to ditch what he sees as outdated Soviet-era legislation that bans the possession, production and distribution of pornography.Doing so, he said, would remedy what he and people making pornographic content say is an unfair contradiction.Violations of Ukraine’s laws on pornography — Article 301 of the criminal code — are punishable by three to five years…

The following is the transcript of an interview with U.S. trade representative Jamieson Greer that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on April 13, 2025.MARGARET BRENNAN: For more, we go to United States Trade Representative, Ambassador. Jamieson Greer. Good morning to you, Mr. Ambassador.AMBASSADOR JAMIESON GREER: Good morning, Margaret, how are you? MARGARET BRENNAN: I’m well. I’m hoping you can give us some news of movement on this clash. Is the Trump administration opening any kind of channel to Beijing right now? Are there any plans for presidents Trump and Xi to speak?AMBASSADOR GREER: Right now, we don’t have…

The rescue of passengers from a capsized boat off the Florida coast turned tragic on Sunday after one person was found dead and five are still missing.The U.S. Coast Guard initially responded to a call from a good Samaritan reporting the capsized vessel approximately 29 miles off St. Lucie Inlet.FLORIDA BOAT CAPSIZES, LEAVING 1 PERSON DEAD; COAST GUARD SUSPENDS SEARCH FOR 3 OTHERS, INCLUDING 2 CHILDREN The U.S. Coast Guard’s search for five missing passengers who were on a boat that capsized off the coast of Florida remains active after authorities rescued four passengers and found one dead. (United States…

Experts say the Greater Toronto Area condo market is unlikely to awaken from its lull any time soon even as other major Canadian cities see somewhat more promising demand. As supply continues to pile up in the GTA, some say affordability is still a key problem holding would-be buyers back from placing their offers, despite the fact that borrowing costs have come down over the past year.“Sure, the rates have fallen … but it’s still not night and day difference,” said Brendon Cowans, a sales representative for Toronto-based brokerage Property.ca.“There’s still a lot of things going on where it’s tough for people to…

Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, testifies during the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing titled Annual Oversight of Wall Street Firms, in the Hart Building on Dec. 6, 2023.Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty ImagesWith each passing day since President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff announcement last week, a growing sense of unease had begun to pervade Wall Street.As stocks plunged and even the safe haven of U.S. Treasurys were selling off, investors, executives and analysts started to fret that a core assumption from the first Trump presidency may no longer apply.Amid the market carnage, the…