North America

  • Feb 27
  • 2 min read

Trade shifting from multilateralism to smaller groups

The WTO meeting may struggle to reach agreement on fishing and farming, let alone on dispute resolution or digital trade

International
  • Feb 26
  • 2 min read

Canada signs a ten-year assistance deal with Ukraine

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signed a new assistance deal when making a surprise visit to Kyiv on February 24

Canada
  • Feb 26
  • 2 min read

WTO meeting to struggle to make progress in key areas

The WTO Ministerial Conference gets underway today with an agenda of contentious issues

International
  • Feb 23
  • 7 min read

US WTO reform proposals will gain little traction

US Trade Representative Katherine Tai will make the case for WTO reform at next week's ministerial meeting in Abu Dhabi

United States
  • Feb 23
  • 2 min read

US private sector lunar landing will help NASA

A private company supported by NASA funding achieved the soft landing of a robotic spacecraft on the moon yesterday

United States
  • Feb 22
  • 7 min read

Migrants could help US urban areas if allowed to work

Migrants are a potential, if partial, solution to labour shortages in urban areas when given the right to work

United States
  • Feb 22
  • 2 min read

Biden cannot count on student debt as a campaign issue

President Joe Biden yesterday announced a further move to cancel student debt but only 150,000 people will benefit

United States
  • Feb 22
  • 2 min read

Anti-deepfake rules will be contested despite harms

A group of prominent technology experts has called for criminalising artificial intelligence (AI)-generated deepfakes

International