Beyond the speeches: scholars offer analysis on trade wars, rising populism, and the evolving role of the U.S. and EU within the international arena As global leaders gather in Davos amid escalating tensions over trade, territorial sovereignty, NATO and the future of the rules-based international order, York University experts are available to provide historical context, […]
Unfettered free trade is a delusion. The reality is that governments worldwide do not want to give up their policy making autonomy, which would be constrained by real free trade agreements. Nevertheless, freer trade is better than no trade.
Earth Overshoot Day (July 24) is more than a week early this year, resulting from humanity’s growing ecological footprint, amid trade wars and tariffs playing a potential role in the ecological footprint of Canada
A defining feature of the ongoing federal election campaign has been the apparent marginalization of the environment and climate change as top-of-mind issues due to threats by the United States against Canadian sovereignty, security and trade.
Professor Emeritus Alan Young, a lawyer and legal scholar known for leading the challenge of Canada's prostitution laws before the country's top court, has died at age 69. Osgoode Dean Trevor Farrow calls his death is "a profound loss" for the legal profession.
TORONTO, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018 – After months of sometimes tense negotiations, Canada, the United States, and Mexico have announced a tentative new trade deal. The agreement, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (formerly NAFTA), is an updated trade agreement that includes changes on investment and the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) cars and car parts, the dairy industry, […]