Deep sourcing by Canada correspondent Rob Gillies and strong expertise by economics reporter Paul Wiseman repeatedly put AP ahead on one of the week’s biggest international stories, from the final hours of U.S.-Canada trade negotiations through their collapse and the rapid escalation that followed. Gillies gave AP early insight into the preliminary deal and stayed ahead as the dispute escalated — breaking news on Canada’s plans for retaliatory tariffs and landing an exclusive interview with Ontario Premier Doug Ford that generated multiple alerts and a fast response from President Donald Trump. Wiseman offered context by building on his expansive knowledge of tariffs and the ways Trump is trying to deploy them against Canada and other countries. Business trending reporter Wyatte Grantham-Philips quickly updated a timeline of the twists and turns that trade between the U.S. and Canada have taken since Trump’s second term. She also pulled together a What to Know explaining how talks between the two countries broke down, the impact of Trump’s newly imposed 50% tariff and Canada’s response. Gilles complemented the coverage with analytical enterprise on the deeper rupture in U.S.-Canada relations and how the confrontation was testing Prime Minister Mark Carney’s vision of middle powers resisting economic coercion.
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