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From Donald Trump handing the remote islands off Canada's coast the steepest tariffs in the world, to a French politician calling for foreign prisoners to be sent there, this French overseas territory ...
In April 1933, 98 years ago this month, in the depths of the Great Depression, the U.S. went off the gold standard, meaning it stopped buying and selling gold at the official price of $20.67 an ounce.
Saint-Pierre and Miquelon is a frigid and fogbound place, a collection of eight relatively obscure islands off the southern coast of Newfoundland best known until recently as a major smuggling ...
The eye-popping tariffs slapped on Saint-Pierre and Miquelon – a sleepy archipelago off the coast of Newfoundland – show the senselessness of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war against ...
Saint Pierre and Miquelon is a sparsely inhabited French-ruled archipelago located off the coast of northern Canada. The islands remain outside the Schengen free-travel area despite being a part ...
A protest staged at the Prefecture of Saint Pierre et Miquelon in 2022. Photo: AFP The usually obscure French territory of Saint Pierre et Miquelon found itself the centre of global attention on ...
U.S. President Donald Trump has placed tariffs on island nations around the world, but Steve Le Bars says he was surprised to see his home of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, the small French territory ...
In his relationships with weaker countries, fear is Trump’s stock-in-trade. The world laughing at his penguin tariffs isn’t a good look for him, writes William Watson. (Credit: Evan Vucci/Associated ...
U.S. President Donald Trump has placed tariffs on island nations around the world, but Steve Le Bars says he was surprised to see his home of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, the small French territory off ...
Now, it too faces 10% tariffs. One enclave hit particularly hard by Trump’s tariffs is Saint Pierre and Miquelon, a French territory of eight small islands near the Canadian province of Newfoundland.