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Tensions simmer on US-Canada border for two towns relying on each other

Canadians ‘angry’ at Trump for suggesting Canada should become 51st state, says mayor, as US businesses see sales fall amid trade war Like many Canadians, Tom Reid isn’t crossing the US-Canada border as often these days. But he needed a haircut. The woman who cuts his hair lives in International Falls, Minnesota – her “sister is married to my wife’s cousin”, he explained – and so Reid, whose duty free shop in Fort Frances, Ontario, has to travel to her.

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Tensions simmer on US-Canada border for two towns relying on each other
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Filed under World · US & Canada · News. Topics extracted from this report, with other live CurrentWire stories mentioning each: Canada (26), Ontario (4), Trade (39).

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