The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider President Donald Trump’s bid to keep his financial records away from Congress and a New York grand jury, setting up a major constitutional and political showdown in the middle of next year’s election campaign.

After rejecting calls for his resignation from within his party for weeks, federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer announced Thursday that he will step down as soon as his party chooses a successor.

The head of the union representing Canada’s trade workers says the new NAFTA is a much-needed improvement to the original deal, but there’s no need to rush the ratification process.

Canadians are growing more frustrated with China, with 66 per cent of respondents saying they have an unfavourable view of country. That’s up from 51 per cent in the previous year.

Two former North American trade emissaries are calling the latest version of the new North American Free Trade Agreement an improvement over its predecessor for Canada.

Lawmakers from the House and Senate reached a bipartisan deal to fund the government before the Dec. 20 spending deadline, according to Nita Lowey, the New York Democrat who chairs the House Appropriations Committee.

Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler said Trump stands accused of “high crimes and misdemeanors” under the Constitution by seeking foreign help for his re-election and engaging “in unprecedented, categorical and indiscriminate defiance” of Congress’s investigation.