Trump threatens to block new bridge in latest tirade against Canada

President says Gordie Howe Bridge will open only when US is ‘fully compensated’ – and makes bizarre hockey claimAs Democrats prepare to force a vote in the US House this week on Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada, the president posted a lengthy diatribe on his social media platform in which he threatened to block a bridge connecting the US and Canada and made a bizarre false claim that increased trade between Canada and China would include a ban on Canadians playing ice hockey.Trump began his latest screed against the US’s second-largest trading partner by claiming that “everyone knows, the Country of Canada has treated the United States very unfairly for decades”. Continue reading...