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Jack Mintz: Picking today's winners and tomorrow's losers

If we continue the current world trade war, we will find that, as in real war, even the winners suffer severe losses

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I buy terrific coffee from the The Roasterie in Calgary even though I have to pay shipping costs to Toronto. Now that the federal government has pledged $100 million (for starters) to pay 50 per cent of the cost of shipping steel within Canada, I wonder if it could do that for roast coffee, as well? Somebody else would be paying my freight but, really, it’s a trivial amount.

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The steel industry is obviously much more important than coffee roasting. Steel companies, primarily in Quebec and Ontario, employ........

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