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BOISSEVAIN, Man. — The International Peace Garden that straddles the Canada-United States border has for more than 90 years been a quiet, pastoral place to celebrate friendship between the two countries.

TORONTO — Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd.'s CEO says consumers have started to ease up on the frugality they adopted to cope with the economic slowdown, but that progress has likely been "substantially erased" by tariff threats.

TORONTO — A group of major U.S. media companies and the owner of the Toronto Star are suing artificial intelligence firm Cohere over copyright infringement.

OTTAWA — Rival Liberal leadership candidates Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland issued duelling policy pledges on Thursday, with one candidate vowing to speeding up home building and the other promising to bring doctors back to Canada.

CALGARY — WestJet announced a multi-billion-dollar, long-term commercial agreement with German aircraft services firm Lufthansa Technik to build a new engine repair station in Calgary.

MONTREAL — Children in Canada are exposed to more than 4,000 ads for food on their mobile devices every year, with the vast majority promoting unhealthy products, according to a new report.

OTTAWA — A new poll suggests many Canadians are willing to use their spending power to protest U.S.

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese automakers Honda, Nissan and Mitsubishi said Thursday they are dropping their talks for a business integration.

WASHINGTON — A top White House adviser said Canada becoming the 51st state remains a consideration following a meeting with premiers where the Canadian leaders were cautioned to take U.S. President Donald Trump at his word.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is taking additional action to upset the world trade system, with plans to sign an order this week that would require that U.S. tariffs on imports match the tax rates charged by other countries.