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Trade war could permanently alter Canada-US cross-border commerce

An investment strategist warns of lasting impacts from escalating tariffs.

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Trade war could permanently alter Canada-US cross-border commerce

What this story says

  • An intensifying trade war between Canada and the U.S. could permanently alter cross-border trade, according to a U.S. investment strategist.
  • Tariffs could permanently change the nature of trade, an expert stated.
  • Peter Schiff, chief economist and global strategist at Euro Pacific, was named in one digest.
  • No right-rated outlets reported on this story.

Who covered it

Left 79%(26)Centre 21%(7)Right 0%(0)

Percentages are shares of the 33 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 1 of the 34 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

30/100

Craft

45/100

Hype

41/100

34 sources · methodology

Missing from the right

None of the 33 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated right.

A reader who follows the right would not have seen this. We report the absence rather than explain it: outlets choose what to cover for many reasons, and we have no evidence about which one applies here.

An intensifying trade war between Canada and the United States could permanently alter cross-border trade, according to a prominent U.S. investment strategist. Tariffs could permanently change the nature of trade, an expert said. Peter Schiff, chief economist and global strategist at Euro Pacific, was named in one digest.

Coverage

What the coverage left out

No right-rated outlets reported on this story.

Coverage settled. We checked this 49 times and stopped on 2 Sept 2026, 23:00. The figures above are what it finished at.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

26 rated outlets

  • Five left-rated digests reported that tariffs could permanently alter trade, citing an expert. They also noted that a prominent U.S. investment strategist said the intensifying trade war between Canada and the U.S. could permanently alter cross-border trade. One digest named Peter Schiff, chief economist and global strategist at Euro Pacific.

Centre

7 rated outlets

  • Three centre-rated digests reported that tariffs could permanently alter trade, citing an expert. They also noted that a prominent U.S. investment strategist said the intensifying trade war between Canada and the U.S. could permanently alter cross-border trade. One digest named Peter Schiff, chief economist and global strategist at Euro Pacific.

Right

0 rated outlets

No outlet rated right ran this story. We watched the coverage until it stopped changing, and none appeared.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Trade war could permanently alter Canada-US cross-border commerce?
Of the 33 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 79% are rated left, 21% are rated centre, 0% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 34. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Trade war could permanently alter Canada-US cross-border commerce left or right?
The story itself is neither. What can be counted is who has covered it, and 79% of the 33 rated outlets on it are rated left — so far this is a story carried mostly by the left. Coverage of this one has settled, so that is unlikely to move much now.
Is the coverage of Trade war could permanently alter Canada-US cross-border commerce biased?
Trade war could permanently alter Canada-US cross-border commerce is one event reported by 34 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Trade war could permanently alter Canada-US cross-border commerce?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated right had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Trade war could permanently alter Canada-US cross-border commerce?
34 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
What could permanently alter cross-border trade?
An intensifying trade war between Canada and the United States could permanently alter cross-border trade. Tariffs involved in this trade war could permanently change the nature of trade between the two countries, according to a U.S. investment strategist.
Who commented on the trade war?
A prominent U.S. investment strategist commented on the trade war between Canada and the U.S. Peter Schiff, chief economist and global strategist at Euro Pacific, was named in one digest as making these comments.

Read it at the source

48 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.

Left

35
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Centre

12
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Right

0

No outlet in this group ran the story.

Not rated

1

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