The Friday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Friday, Oct. 21
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CANADA WALKS FROM TRADE TALKS: International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland says she can do no more to convince a region of Belgium to agree to the Canada-EU trade deal, but a Conservative critic says that’s not good enough. Freeland abandoned talks in Brussels aimed at convincing the holdout Belgian region of Wallonia to agree to the European Union’s wide-ranging deal. Without full support of the EU the deal is considered doomed. Conservative MP Gerry Ritz, who was involved with the talks while a cabinet minister with the former Conservative government, says you don’t just walk away from such talks.
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