The agency does reduce most of them from the initial levels, but the harm is already being done to U.S. newspapers.
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Canada being shut out of NAFTA talks between Mexico, U.S.
The Canadian negotiating team has been told that the U.S. is focusing first on bilateral negotiations with Mexico.
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In trade war with Canada, Maine mostly ‘got off easy’
As retaliatory tariffs go in place, the highly integrated economies between the neighbors insulate most companies from ill effects.
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Transmission lines over Kennebec Gorge? That may be a choke point for renewable energy advocates
A 145-mile power line that would carry hydroelectricity from Canada to Massachusetts – and carve a path through the scenic gorge – signals a bleak future for multistate projects in New England.
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Canada mourns after 15 die when junior hockey team bus collides with truck
Fourteen others are injured in the crash in Saskatchewan that the prime minister describes as ‘every parent’s worst nightmare.’
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Maine railway won’t have to stand trial for Quebec oil train disaster
Prosecutors conclude there was little chance of convicting the bankrupt Montreal Maine & Atlantic Railway of negligence in the tragic Lac-Megantic crash, which killed 47 people in 2013.
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LePage accuses lawmakers of ‘witch hunt’ over diversion of state-owned timber
During a tense meeting, the governor slams legislators and says he had ‘zero involvement’ in decisions to stop shipping wood to mills owned by vocal critics of his position on Canadian lumber tariffs.
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Canadian pot company plotting global push
Hydropothecary Corp. plans to be “one of the two to three multinational companies still standing in five years.”
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Mushers, sled dogs look lively out of the gate in Fort Kent
The 250-mile Irving Woodlands Can-Am Crown winds through the wilderness of northern Maine.
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Prosecution: conductor played role in 47 deaths in Quebec derailment
Thomas Harding and 2 colleagues have pleaded not guilty to criminal negligence charges stemming from the 2013 Lac Megantic tragedy.