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A Canadian Mom and Her 7-Year-Old Were Detained by ICE at a Texas Checkpoint, and China's Biggest EV Maker Is About to Start Selling Cars in Canada.
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A Canadian Mom and Her 7-Year-Old Were Detained by ICE at a Texas Checkpoint
Tania Warner, a 47-year-old from Penticton, B.C., and her seven-year-old daughter Ayla Lucas were stopped at a mandatory Border Patrol checkpoint in Sarita, Texas last Saturday. They were driving home to Kingsville from a baby shower. They're still being held at the processing center in McAllen.
Warner has lived in the United States for about five years. She came in on a visitor visa, then got a worker's visa after marrying her American husband, Edward. The family clams her papers were in order. They'd driven through the same checkpoint before without a problem. "I know she's got legal working status," a family friend told CBC. "We were completely caught off guard."
Ayla is on the autism spectrum. Edward Warner says she's "very not happy being there" and his wife is having anxiety attacks. Global Affairs Canada says consular officials are helping but "cannot exempt Canadians from local legal processes."
If the family's account is accurate, Warner did everything right. Visa, marriage to a citizen, five years in the country. It didn't help at Sarita.
Read more: CBC News / The Guardian
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China's Biggest EV Maker Is About to Start Selling Cars in Canada
BYD, the company that passed Tesla last year to become the world's biggest electric vehicle maker, is in talks to open 20 dealerships across Canada within a year. The first stores will be in the Greater Toronto Area, with Vancouver, Montreal, and Calgary on deck.
Until last month, Ottawa had a 100% tariff on Chinese EVs. Then PM Mark Carney cut a deal with Beijing - drop it to 6.1% in exchange for China easing duties on Canadian canola, lobster, crab, and peas. The agreement caps Chinese vehicle imports at 49,000 a year, the number rising to 70,000 within five years.
BYD sold 2.26 million battery-electric vehicles in 2025. Farid Ahmad, who runs an automotive M&A firm in Markham, Ontario, says his company is "in talks with three locations for possible BYD stores." BYD's vice president, Stella Li, has floated the idea of a Canadian factory.
A country that spent years arguing about whether to buy American or build Canadian is about to get another choice.
Read more: The Globe and Mail / MobileSyrup