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THE WRAP: Tariffying Trump, shopping cart dump, and two premiers toss in the towel

How Halifax Wins The signs are there, from Doug Ford and Tim Houston knocking down trade barriers, to small buy local campaigns to a guy I know putting up a tiny house in his driveway for a homeless friend. On Thursday we launched a series called How Canada Wins. It’s about  people digging deeper, rekindling ambition, and thinking outside the box to turn hard times into a prosperous future. Aaron Beswick started us off with this. How to shop Canadian My mom, a lifelong Campbell’s Soup fan, is canning American brands. So is our columnist, John Demont, who went through his cupboard to weed out the U.S. imports. Writer Bill Spurr found a lot of people doing the same. If that piques your interest, here’s a list of Canadian products you might not know about. Trade barriers? Hold my beer Nova Scotia kicked off what could be a nationwide campaign to eliminate interprovincial trade barriers by signing a deal with Ontario. But long-standing rules to protect brewers in each province might scuttle that elsewhere, says Moosehead Breweries president Andrew Oland. Small businesses in Trump’s crosshairs, too Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again but likely to come back again tariff threats are already having an effect. Most packages that cross the Canada-US border are worth less than $800, so they are exempt from duties and customs paperwork. That’s about to change. P.E.I. and NL premiers throw in the towel A week after Prince Edward Island’s Dennis King quit, it was Newfoundland premier Andrew Furey’s turn. Furey, a doctor by training, said he’d run out of patience dealing with the horse in a hospital chaos sown by President Donald Trump. For the other reasons, click here. And Nova Scotia’s premier walks one back Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston felt the heat and got out of the kitchen this week by agreeing to pull changes that could be used to suppress reports of the Auditor General or even fire her. Good call.