Can the U.S. auto industry survive without Canada?
President Donald Trump says he wants every car sold in the United States to be made domestically, a move which experts say would disrupt the entire North American auto sector for years. Andrew Chang explains how interdependent the Canadian and U.S. auto industries are, and the widespread impacts of severing a 70-year partnership.
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Why experts think Trump’s new auto tariff plan 'defies logic'
U.S. President Donald Trump plans to levy a new 25 per cent tariff on vehicles imported to the United States. Andrew Chang explains why this latest threat is different, and why it's concerning trade and industry experts.
Tesla released data showing the company paid zero federal income taxes on $2.3 billion of U.S. income in 2024 and avoided almost all taxes on $11 billion of U.S. income since 2022. As recently as 2018, Musk “paid no federal income taxes.”
Bezos is always listening. On March 28, Amazon is sunsetting its “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” privacy option for Echo home devices — meaning everything users say to their Echos will be recorded and sent to Amazon’s cloud platform, where the data will never expire. Why? To train artificial intelligence. This month, Amazon is rolling out a new and improved generative AI-powered Alexa+.
Nothing says late-stage empire quite like reading text screenshots containing detailed U.S. war plans over morning coffee.

$7,500
The average amount American households pay extra every year on products with patent and copyright monopolies. The monopolies raise the cost of these items by more than $1 trillion annually.