Monday, August 31st, 2026
The US-Canada trade war in 5 charts
BBC The US and Canada appear no closer to resolving their ongoing trade dispute. Tensions have been simmering between the two neighbours since President Donald Trump returned to the White House just over 18 months ago, and unleashed a wide-ranging global programme of tariffs. Canada was one of the first countries the Trump administration hit with levies, and is one of two countries to respond with its own reciprocal measures. Currently, the US has hit Canada’s key sectors of steel, aluminium, lumber and automobiles with tariffs, and last week imposedRead more
US and Iran trade strikes for first time in weeks
Reuters Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz are visible near the beach of Bandar Abbas, close to Larak Island Iran and the US have traded strikes after American forces attacked two rocket launchers on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz. The first known US strikes on Iran since late July killed two people and injured two others, according to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which vowed “response and punishment”. US Central Command (Centcom) said its had taken “limited, precise action” against “minelaying forces posing an imminent threat inRead more
Google updates maps to show Lake America in the U.S. – but Canadians are now seeing it, too
Some Canadian websites, including for the federal government, displayed maps with Lake Ontario renamed as Lake America on Sunday, a day after Google Maps announced the change to align with an executive order by U.S. President Donald Trump. The search giant said in a Saturday post on its corporate website that it made the change because the U.S. government’s geographic names database has formally renamed the lake. Google said the change would only affect U.S. users, but a number of websites for Ontario and Canadian entities appeared to display LakeRead more
NASA launches $4B Roman astronomical observatory to explore depths of space
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off carrying NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sunday. (Joe Skipper/Reuters) NASA began a new mission to probe some of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics and cosmology with the launch on Sunday of the U.S. space agency’s new flagship astronomical observatory, a repurposed spy satellite that will capture panoramic views of the cosmos. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a roughly $4 billion US project, was carried aloft from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in CapeRead more