Economics

Amid ever-evolving tariffs and counter-tariffs between Canada, the United States and China, it has been a confusing few months for one of Toronto’s oldest religious goods stores.

For now, at least, Donald Trump’s threat of heavy tariffs on Mexico and Canada are on hold. Who knows what he’ll do now? He is nothing if not unpredictable.

As the Global South struggles with a devastating debt crisis, Kairos Canada’s Jubilee 2025 campaign is calling for creditors to turn debt into hope through systemic financial reform and overall debt cancellation.

There is one apparent gain from incoming U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threat against Canada and Mexico: it has thrust the drug addiction and access issue back to the forefront of the national conversation.