No deal, so long-running Canadian port dispute forced into arbitration

The last hope for a negotiated agreement between the Canadian Maritime Employers Association (MEA) and Montréal Longshoremen’s Union Local 375 is that both parties must submit to arbitration.   The dispute between the port workers and their employers began last September in a bid to increase the dockworkers’ benefits, such as pay, pension, and holidays.  Since…

Canada pledges funds to diversify trade strategy as US relations sour

Trump’s trade war has provoked “total hatred” north of the border, with Canada’s PM vowing to support a diversification of trade away from the US Having called for an election, Canada’s newly installed prime minister and Liberal Party leader Mark Carney has pledged to fund to the tune of C$5bn ($3.5bn) what he is calling…