The Trump tariff policy — Round 3

Sometimes, you can only put your head in your hands and wonder when this will all end.

On Wednesday, the office of the U.S. Trade Representative, Jamieson Greer, announced a new round of 10 per cent tariffs against countries the United States feels aren’t doing enough to combat forced labour and 12.5 per cent tariffs against countries which only partially ban, or don’t ban, forced labour.

Canada is one of the countries that would get a 10 per cent tariff, but only on goods not covered by the current Canada-U.S-Mexico trade agreement.

It’s viewed as just another attempt to push forward U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff agenda after his initial attempts were derailed by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Letters, June 5

For argument’s sake, let’s say the average school zone is 500 metres. It takes about six seconds longer to travel that distance at 30 km/h than it does at 50 km/h.

Allowing pharmacists to do more immediately improves access to health care, reduces strain elsewhere in system

If the Manitoba government is serious about improving access to primary care, there is one reform that should be at the very top of its to-do list.

Pharmacists Manitoba has renewed its call for the province to significantly expand pharmacists’ scope of practice, bringing the Manitoba closer to the standards that already exist across much of Canada. The organization is urging the government to approve a broader list of common ailments and services pharmacists are trained to assess and treat.

It’s difficult to think of a more obvious health-care reform that would deliver immediate benefits to patients while helping relieve pressure throughout the health-care system.

The numbers alone make the case.

The logic of saving for a rainy day

We get it. It’s hard to be responsible, and it’s hard to pinch pennies when there’s so much pressure on your wallet.

What does Benjamin Netanyahu want?

‘The war is over,” U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Congress last Tuesday. But it isn’t.

Teaching, learning are unrealistic expectations in intolerably hot classrooms

There is something fundamentally wrong with a province that can find room for tax cuts yet still sends thousands of children and teachers into classrooms that feel more like saunas than places of learning.

The long haul of the long hall

Being alone. Probably no one likes to be alone all the time, but I think more and more, we should all be spending a little more time alone. Maybe a lot more time. Alone with our thoughts. Alone with ourselves.

Wednesday morning, early, I was walking the north and west borders of Frank Whyte Park. It had rained the night before, the first real rain in a while, and things had changed. A roadside cardboard box I’d noticed on the edge of the road on Inkster near McPhillips on Tuesday had softened and bowed. Many trees had dropped curls and dots of spent blossoms on to the sidewalk. Twisting worms traversed wet stretches of pavement. At the corner of Fife and Inkster, two tall honeysuckles had broken from bud into flower overnight, a new scent fighting with the lilac that is so prevalent this week.

The dust had been smacked down and stuck to the pavement, and all the green colours suddenly suddenly seemed fuller and brighter.

A corner-turning day; spring to summer with the help of rain.