Trump dumps trade negotiations with Canada. Plus: Robots coming for your jobs!

Joining Elias on The Big 5 were Sue Smith, Montreal journalist and broadcaster and
Christina Chough, Spanish teacher and Chair of the modern languages department at Dawson College.

• U.S. President Donald Trump says he is terminating trade negotiations with Canada following new anti-tariff ads from the Ontario government that features the voice of former U.S. president Ronald Reagan
• Internal documents obtained by the New York Times this week reveal that Amazon plans to replace – or rather, avoid hiring – more than half a million U.S. workers by the end of the decade… by letting robots do the work instead
• In the first nine months of this year alone, food safety inspectors issued $150,000 in fines to Quebec grocery stores, bakeries and butcher shops