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Canadian News

The Canadian Press
Snowbirds: Trump administration sued over traveller registration requirement

CBC News
Canada updates travel advice to warn of U.S. border officers' power to search electronic devices

Global News
U.S. doctors explain the urge to come to Canada

International News

CNN News
Dow plunges 2,200 points as tariff tumult rocks markets - More

The Hill
‘Hands Off!’ anti-Trump protests planned in more than 1,000 cities

Reuters News Agency
U.S. egg imports meant to drive down prices could now face Trump tariffs

CBS News
DOGE teams cut critical funding from America's libraries

BBC News
Fired US health staff asked to return

CBS News
RFK Jr. to lay off more NIH employees amid HHS restructuring

The Washington Post
Inside President Trump’s whirlwind decision to upend global trade

Catherine Rampell | The Washington Post
The GOP has an Orwellian solution to pay for Trump’s tax cuts

Global News
Penguins and polar bears outnumber people in some tariff-hit territories

Justin Wolfers | The New York Times
Your Life Will Never Be the Same After These Tariffs

CBC News
Digging into the 'insane' formula the White House used to calculate its tariffs

Marina Hyde | The Guardian
Are Trump’s tariffs for real or an AI hallucination?

The Guardian
Trump insists he won’t back down from global trade war as markets slump - More

The Guardian
Trump exempts big oil donors from tariffs package

CBS News
Trump administration accidentally tells Ukrainian refugees they must leave U.S. immediately

CBS News
DACA recipient and Kansas City father of 3 deported to Mexico despite valid documentation

BBC News
Where do near-Earth asteroids come from – and what can we learn form them?

The Guardian
Greece’s Aegean islands reel from ‘lake of mud’ flash floods

The Guardian
Kyiv solving its troop shortages, says top US general in Europe

Reuters News Agency
U.S. sending Israel more than 20,000 assault rifles

The Guardian
Donald Trump signs off UK’s handover of Chagos Islands to Mauritius

CBC News
These are the remote islands on Trump's tariff list, and what they export

The Guardian
Asian countries riven by war and disaster face some of steepest Trump tariffs

The Guardian
Prince Andrew wrote birthday letters to Xi Jinping

The Associated Press
China hits back at U.S. with 34% tariff on all products - More - More - More

The Associated Press
Today in History: 4 April - More

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4 April