Trump-Canada live: Furious president terminates trade talks over ‘fraudulent’ Ronald Reagan quote – UK Times

Mark Carney has taken a swipe at Trump over the World Series which kicks off today.

Speaking at a Blue Jays practice match in Toronto, the Prime Minister said that the U.S. president has yet to return his offer of a bet on who they think will win.

“I think he’s afraid to make a bet,” Carney said. “He hasn’t returned my call yet on the bet. I’m ready. We’re ready to make a bet with the U.S.”

The full list of donors to President Donald Trump’s $300 million ballroom at the White House has been revealed, with many of America’s Big Tech companies chipping in.

Amazon, Apple, Google, HP, and Microsoft are all on the list, along with Palantir, T-Mobile and Lockheed Martin.

“For 150 years-plus they’ve wanted to have a ballroom and it never happened because they’ve never had a real estate person,” Trump said at a fundraising dinner for the ballroom.

Demolition work on the East Wing, where the ballroom will eventually be situated, began on Monday.

Trump’s decision to flatten the East Wing has been widely condemned, with Hillary Clinton saying that he is “destroying” the White House.

The deal, which has been rubber-stamped by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Tuesday, comes as China restricts access to its own vast stores of rare earth minerals.

“Australia is really, really going to be helpful in the effort to take the global economy and make it less risky, less exposed to the kind of rare earth extortion that we’re seeing from the Chinese,” Kevin Hassett, the director of the White House’s National Economic Council, told reporters.

The minerals are used in a range of technological devices and play an important role in smartphones, wind turbines and defence systems.

A day after trade talks with America collapsed, Canadian PM Mark Carney jetted to China for his first official visit to Asia.

His officials have floated the idea that Carney could meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in an effort to ease relations between both countries.

Although the meeting has yet to be confirmed, Canadian officials are hoping to meet with the Chinese president on either October 31 or November 1.

Vina Nadjibulla, the vice-president of Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, told CBC that Canada is trying to stay out of America’s trade war with Asia’s biggest economy.

“They’re trying to not get caught between U.S. and China, [who are] kind of the two giants that are now engaged in strategic competition,” Nadjibulla said.

The Israeli parliament approved the bill on Wednesday, as it seeks to tighten its hold on the West Bank.

JD Vance branded the proposal an “insult” to the Gaza ceasefire, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio jetting to Israel shortly after.

Rubio was spotted today in the Civil-Military Coordination Center in Southern Israel.

Meanwhile, Trump has claimed that Israel is “not going to do anything with the West Bank.”

Ontario is the economic heart of Canada and is home to both the nation’s capital, Ottawa, and its largest city, Toronto.

However, Trump’s crackdown on Canadian steel and aluminium has hit the province hard. His current steel tariffs stand at 35 percent.

Ottowa pledged $400 million CAD to Algoma Steel, one of the country’s biggest steel companies, to keep the company afloat amid rising competition from China.

Meanwhile, steel manufacturers are also looking to make production more sustainable by switching to electric furnaces.

A spokesperson from Doug Ford’s Ontario government said that the Reagan clip was not used illegally.

“The commercial uses an unedited excerpt from one of President Reagan’s public addresses, which is available through public domain,” a spokesperson from Ford’s government told CBC News.