State leaders bypass Trump in effort to build bridges with Canada

Governors from the five U.S. Northeastern states met with five of their Canadian counterparts for a “sobering discussion” about how President Donald Trump’s “war of economic aggression” is affecting their region, according to a Politico report Tuesday.

The outlet reported the meeting was meant to help strategize “what they can control and lamenting what they cannot. Namely ‘a tweet in the middle of the night,’ as one premier put it.”

“It was a sobering discussion this morning,” Massachusetts...