Australians are being encouraged to swap American goods for home-grown products at the check-out — but is it that easy? While stopping short of calling for a boycott, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has put the spotlight on supporting homemade products in the wake of Australia being swept up in the Trump administration’s tariff regime. “Buy…
Donations of U.S. fruits and vegetables are pouring in to Nanaimo’s Loaves and Fishes food bank from Island grocery stores that are unable to sell them, even at reduced prices. Dan Van Domsellar works in the food bank’s food recovery program, and told CHEK News he has never seen anything like it before. “It’s everything….
At Lakeview Market in Kelowna, B.C., many labels are being changed to help answer questions staff are fielding these days. “A lot of customers have been asking where we get our products,” said Barb Hill, the store’s co-owner. “We decided to put some Canadian stickers, Canadian flag stickers on our local products, Canadian-sourced products.” The…
Sandwiched between US President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies and China’s heavy incentives for domestic producers, the European Union wants to give its own companies preferential treatment when bidding for hi-tech contracts. The move – to be proposed on Wednesday in a programme designed to turbo-boost the bloc’s lagging competitiveness – could put it on…