British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau in a call on Wednesday that he welcomed an international conversation on the importance of trade and collaboration, Starmer's office said.

President Trump has paused his planned tariffs against Canada after speaking with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. CBS News national correspondent Nikki Battiste reports.

Canadian Labour Congress President Bea Bruske and the heads of its major member unions met Sunday with strikebreaker-in-chief Steven MacKinnon, the Labour Minister in Trudeau’s Liberal government, to plot how they can assists Canadian big business in its reactionary tariff war with Washington.

After Trump took Mexico and Canada to the brink of trade wars, both nations have managed to defuse his tariff bombs. (At least, for now . . . ) Trump halted sweeping tariffs on the US’s two biggest trading partners after separate bilateral phone calls with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.