Global National: April 8, 2025 | Trump ignores growing calls to reverse tariff policy

Описание: U.S. President Donald Trump is ignoring pressure to turf his tariffs, as his trade war with China escalates. Jackson Proskow reports on the enormous new tax Trump has slapped on Chinese imports, the rattled stock market, the rising anxiety among American lawmakers and why negotiations with other countries won't necessarily spell an immediate end to the tariffs.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre held one of his largest campaign rallies in Edmonton, where he received an endorsement from former prime minister Stephen Harper. Mackenzie Gray looks at how Harper is trying to sway voters while discrediting Liberal Leader Mark Carney's previous work as Bank of Canada governor, a job that Harper appointed Carney to.

Most of Western Canada tends to vote Conservative in federal elections, but Liberal Leader Mark Carney is hoping to change that. David Akin looks at Carney's efforts to shore up support in B.C. for his party's housing plan, his optimism about gaining ground in Alberta, and his response to an independent watchdog's report about an alleged Chinese disinformation plot to pitch Carney to Chinese-Canadian voters.

Plus, Colossal Biosciences, an American biotechnology and genetic engineering company, claims it has created three dire wolves, a species that's been extinct for about 10,000 years. Mike Armstrong explains why critics are disputing the claim of "de-extinction" and the ethical debate that's been spawned.

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