Despite headwinds from U.S. tariffs and geopolitical instability, Tiff Macklem expressed some confidence in Canada but said resilience is "under strain" as shocks like the Middle East conflict persist.

Fox, who was promoted Friday to a Companion of the Order of Canada, said despite the ongoing trade feud he believes ties between Americans and Canadians on the "human level" remain strong.

Food expert Sylvain Charlebois joined The Evan Bray Show to explain how diesel costs, trade uncertainty and changing shopping habits could affect grocery bills.

Great Western Brewing is stuck in the tariff crossfire, with beer cans being manufactured in both Canada and the U.S. "We're getting all too familiar with tariffs," said CEO Michael Brennan.

Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister David Marit says U.S. lawmakers support continued potash imports from the province, one day after Trump said he was working on a deal to buy fertilizer from Belarus.

Saskatchewan leaders, including Premier Scott Moe, are criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to buy potash from Belarus. On social media, Moe questioned the potential partnership's benefits.

OTTAWA - Parliament will get back to work Monday after a three-month break, with the trade war with the United States and Prime Minister Mark Carney's move to formalize closer ties with the European Union top of mind. Public opinion backs Carney's appr...

According to the city, around $7 million was spent on goods and services from outside of Canada in 2025, accounting for 1.74 per cent of the City of Saskatoon's spending on procurement that year.

While golf cart businesses in the province are not seeing any impacts due to sporting goods tariffs, experts say the levies are hurting other companies and undermining public participation in sports.

"Canada wants to make a deal very badly, just like Iran wants to make a deal very badly. I just don't think they're ready .... I hope Canada appreciates being in the same sentence with Iran."

Some truckers who often cross the U.S. border say the tariffs and trade dispute are slowing things down for them. Other drivers said there were fewer loads coming up from the U.S., so there was less work to be had.

Regina mayor Chad Bachynski says the city will have to review its contracts in order to minimize the impact of cross-border tariffs during a trade war that he described as "ridiculous."

An executive order United States President Donald Trump signed uses Saskatchewan's levy on American alcohol as an example of "discriminatory treatment."

Trump's new tariff orders, which will take effect later this month, will completely bar the import of certain Canadian goods, including motorcycles, some dairy products and alcoholic beverages.

Saskatchewan businesses were dealing with the new reality of retaliatory tariffs on Tuesday, while the shifting trade landscape also means consumers in the province will pay more for American booze.

Prairie Harley-Davidson will face 50 per cent tariffs on nearly all of its products as Canada imposes counter-tariffs on a number of products from the United States in the ongoing trade war.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is warning Canadians that the country's pivot away from the United States will come at a cost, but that the alternative would be far worse.

Pierre Poilievre used a tailgating stop at the Labour Day Classic in Regina on Sunday to call on Prime Minister Mark Carney to disclose the expected costs of Canada's new U.S. counter-tariffs.

More than a million Americans, including visitors on long-term visas and dual citizens, live in Canada, according to 2023 estimates. Some describe the renaming as pitiful, nonsense and ridiculous.

Saskatoon Appliance has seen a spike of customers after trade negotiations fell apart. Some want to lock in prices before counter-tariffs take effect, while others look to support non-American brands.

The Government of Canada is providing $11.6 million in federal funding to Saskatoon businesses as a dollar-for-dollar match against the "additional unjustified tariffs on Canadian goods."

SaskPower, SaskTel, and the SPSA's SaskAlert maps briefly displayed Lake Ontario as Lake America following Donald Trump's renaming of the body of water last week, only reverting back Monday afternoon.

The search giant said it made the change because the U.S. government's geographic names database has formally changed the name of the lake. People outside of the U.S. and Canada will see both names.

Before trade negotiations fell apart, Terry Swystun, owner of Full Line Ag in Saskatoon, said he was hopeful for a deal. Now he would like to see more of a push for people to buy Canadian equipment.

Investment strategist Peter Schiff said tariffs and the increasing unreliability of the U.S. as a trading partner has many Canadian companies to seek out different markets and set up new trade deals.

In front of a map with the name, U.S. President Donald Trump says Canada has been difficult to deal with during trade talks, and followed through on his threat from Tuesday to rename the lake.

Margaret Chapman with Narrative Research says the buy Canadian movement is becoming entrenched in shopping habits as trade tensions worsen and consumers look for ways to support the local economy.

The 2023 Online Streaming Act passed by the Liberal government says streamers should ensure Canadian programs, including French content, can be found on streaming services offered in Canada.

U.S. President Donald Trump used a Depression-era trade statute to slap 50 per cent tariffs on an array of Canadian goods after trade negotiations crumbled in the eleventh-hour Friday night.

While most Saskatchewan agricultural industries won't get hit by the new tariffs, that doesn't apply to honey. These businesses are calling it quits on U.S. exports, but finding new markets isn't easy.

In a letter to Dominic LeBlanc, Canada-U.S. relations critic Shuvaloy Majumdar said while his party supports the government's decision to reject the deal, Parliament is in the dark on what was on the table.

Donald Trump said on social media that "Canada wants the benefits of being a State, without being one!!!". Meanwhile Canadian MLS fans booed the U.S. national anthem and buy Canadian talk ratcheted up.

The collapse of trade talks meant new 50 per cent tariffs on billions of dollars in Canadian exports to the U.S. are now in effect, and PM Mark Carney vowed Canada would retaliate with equal measures.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer says Canada declined to finalize a trade deal under terms agreed earlier in the week. The duties also affect goods that are compliant with CUSMA.

In a social media post that was long on hyperbole and short on details, he said the pause was to finalize documents. Prime Minister Mark Carney and Trump spoke twice by phone in the past two days.

Saskatchewan businesses are hoping for a trade deal to prevent the threatened 50 per cent tariffs landing at midnight, with exporters and importers all nervously awaiting news of an agreement.

Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley has long said that CUSMA should remain. On Friday, he said Trump wants to "tweak" the agreement a little bit and accused Canada of not upholding commitments to dairy access.

Saskatchewan Trade and Exports Minister Warren Kaeding discusses new U.S. tariff threats, the province's trade mission to China and the canola situation, and the industries facing ongoing uncertainty.

Sticks and Doodles co-founder Kyle Moffatt said the wood-cut art company just started shipping to the U.S again, but if the tariffs threatened by President Donald Trump go through, it'll have to stop.

Trump says on social media he is "holding Canada responsible" for not properly maintaining forested areas and that he will call Prime Minister Mark Carney to discuss the issue.

Dignitaries including high commissioners to Canada and India joined Premier Scott Moe at the Western Canada-India Leaders Summit on Friday and expressed confidence a trade deal would be signed.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said most nations around the world have "begrudgingly" accepted tariffs are part of the Trump administration's policies, but Canada's approach has been different.

The United States has put duties of 2.84 per cent on fresh mushrooms grown in Canada following a U.S. Department of Commerce investigation which the Canadian industry has called "deeply flawed."

Secretary of State (Rural Development) Buckley Belanger said money will be used to address sectors of the economy that have been impacted by tariffs and help people who are losing their jobs.

Jason Childs, a University of Regina economics professor, said people are also paying attention to the price of their grocery bills as some of the shop-Canadian sentiments peter out.

The prime minister pitched Canada and India as natural partners, and noted investments between the two countries total more than $100 billion and two-way trade stands at more than $30 billion a year.

Sandvik is opening a facility in Saskatoon to manufacture mining equipment that will service potash mines and says with the current trade landscape it's important to build capacity inside Canada.

Trump's announcement on social media was the latest sign that despite the court's check on his powers, he still intends to ratchet up tariffs in an unpredictable way to apply international pressure.

A ruling invalidating U.S. emergency tariffs is expected to have little impact in Saskatchewan but a trade group here is watching CUSMA closely, especially after Trump announced a new global tariff.

Trump says he will use the Section 122 of the 1974 Trade Act to hit the world with the tariffs - but that duty can only stay in place for 150 days, unless Congress votes to extend it.

A Saskatchewan farmer says U.S. President Donald Trump's threat of 100 per cent tariffs is rattling already fragile grain markets, adding uncertainty for producers facing tight margins and volatile prices.

Young's Equipment sells farm tools and has had to navigate an uncertain business environment over the past year amid wildly fluctuating trade wars and tariffs between Canada, the U.S., China and India.

Premier Scott Moe slammed Trump's social media threat, saying the deal with China is good for Canada and the country must continue to work to maintain CUSMA because it is also good for North America.

On the Evan Bray Show, Heath MacDonald said Canada's biggest safeguard against tariffs is through trade diversification. "I think it's extremely important to continue to do that work," MacDonald said.

Rob Stone, a farmer near Davidson, says this year's acreage for his various crops is already set but he's impressed at how much got done during trade meetings between Canada and China this week.

The deal will see China will drop levies on canola seed down from 100 per cent to 15 per cent by the end of this year and drop tariffs on canola meal and peas from March until at least the end of 2026.

"Bringing this agreement to fruition is an example of how we can provide some certainty in a very uncertain world," Premier Scott Moe said during an appearance on the Evan Bray Show on Friday.

It marks the prime minister's first deal on trade with another country since taking office and a de-escalation in tensions with a country the Liberal government had branded a disruptive power.

"If Ottawa still chooses to subject its China policy to the will of Washington again in the future, it will only render its previous efforts to mend ties with Beijing in vain," the China Daily said.

Saskatchewan has borne the brunt of high Chinese tariffs on canola, peas and pork and Moe said on Monday the meetings will support the process of "recalibrating" how the two countries work together.

Sask Oilseeds and Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan it will be watching closely for the outcomes of Mark Carney's meeting with Chinese politicians in relation to canola tariffs.

2025 was scary good for investors - scary because the U.S. stock market plunged several times on worries about tariffs, but it was a good year for anyone with the stomach to stick through the swings.

Next year will see what's likely to be a combative review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico-Agreement on trade and a bitter midterm battle as Democrats try to take back control of Congress.

Scott Moe said we need to take these threats from Donald Trump seriously, but not to take everything he says literally. Moe also acknowledged the importance of working with the federal government.

Speaking to reporters on Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump said he may impose "very severe tariffs" on fertilizer from Canada in an effort meant to bolster America's domestic production.

Despite budgeting for a $12 million surplus when the fiscal year began, the province said it now expects a large deficit and pointed to expenses like wildfires, health care and pressures from tariffs.

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said the trade deal would include agriculture, which would be significant for Saskatchewan where growers are subject to Indian tariffs on yellow pea imports.

Carney "doesn't have a burning issue to speak with the president about right now," while a U.S. senator expresses concern that Canadians no longer think of Americans as their friends and neighbours.

Premier Scott Moe said he would like to see more regulatory reform included in the budget and the government to continue recent efforts to bolster Canada's positive reputation as a trading partner.

"It is imperative that the federal government act swiftly with India and China to find a solution that will avoid unnecessary hardship on Canadian producers and industry," the ministers said in their letter.

Ahead of Prime Minister Mark Carney's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week at the APEC forum, APAS Executive Director Dion McGrath said producers are looking for an end to tariffs.

Analyst Paul Martin said the U.S. president was likely engaging in bargaining tactics. "I think it's being perceived in Canada as the typical Donald Trump, passive-aggressive negotiating stance."

WATCH: See the ad that will screen during the World Series and cost the Ontario government about $75 million. It uses audio and video of U.S. President Ronald Reagan speaking about tariffs in 1987.

Journalist Kelly Malone said the move from President Donald Trump surprised her, since he had made comments earlier in the week about seeing the ad during a Blue Jays game and not appearing to be upset.

"We just finished harvest, but the bins are full and the marketplace is closed off. This is not a good situation for farmers right now," said SARM president Bill Huber.