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TORONTO — Liam Neeson's latest film takes viewers into the life of a key player in the Watergate scandal, and he says there are clear parallels between presidents then-and-now.

TORONTO — Bombardier Inc. shares lost nearly nine per cent in early trading Wednesday as investors weighed the prospect of a 219 per cent duty on U.S. sales of its flagship CSeries passenger jets and the European merger of two railway rivals.

OTTAWA — Bombardier's hopes for breaking into the U.S. commercial aviation market took a massive blow on Tuesday, as the U.S. Department of Commerce proposed a hefty 219 per cent duty on its CSeries jets.

OTTAWA — Two labour unions say a Canadian proposal to raise labour standards in the North American Free Trade Agreement is vastly superior to an American text, and they are accusing the United States of stonewalling progress on the issue.

OTTAWA — The U.S. should join Canada in pushing for higher labour standards in Mexico in the new North American Free Trade Agreement, said a Democratic lawmaker, or else risk a rough ride getting the deal through Congress.

NEW YORK — Quebec wasted little time in making Ottawa aware "right from the start" about its concerns with the federal government's proposed — and now hotly contested — tax reforms, the province's finance minister said Tuesday.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is cheering Liberal MPs who walked out of a hearing Tuesday to prevent a Conservative counterpart with anti-abortion views from being named to head up the House of Commons committee on the status of women.

SMITHERS, B.C. — Mary Jane Hill wasn't there to witness the birth of her grandchildren or to see them graduate from high school. She won't be there when her daughter needs her most, when she's in pain, or on her wedding day.

VANCOUVER — A man who lived on the streets of Vancouver as a teenager will push a shopping cart through the city's rough-and-tumble Downtown Eastside once again on Friday, but this time will mark the end of a cross-country journey to raise awareness

TORONTO — Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe says protectionist rhetoric coming out of the White House is only hurting ongoing renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. McAuliffe, a Democrat and critic of many of U.S.