A New Hampshire man is stuck in Canada after the U.S. Customs and Border patrol refused him reentry.

Chris Landry is a legal U.S. resident and a Canadian citizen. He lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire with his partner and five children, and is employed as a manufacturing machine operator.

On Sunday, he was stopped while trying to cross the border in Houlton, Maine. He and his three of his children (two under 18 and one aged 20) were visiting his father, grandmother and extended relatives in New Brunswick. He says this is an annual trip, with returns across the N.B.-Maine border. He was born in Canada and has lived in the “Granite State” since he was 3 years old, when his family moved there. But he never pursued becoming a U.S. citizen.

The CBP pulled him aside and questioned past misdemeanor convictions that date back to 2004 and 2007, he told the

Boston NBC News affiliate

this week. Under the American criminal justice system, a person can be charged with a felony or a misdemeanor, depending on the offence and its severity. Misdemeanors are lesser offence, resulting in lesser penalties.

Landry was charged with marijuana possession and driving with a suspended license. He was given 60-day sentences (both suspended) and fined for both offences, which he paid.

In the past, he said he would cross without issue. Border authorities would scan his green card, ask a few questions and send him on his way, Landry told New Hampshire newspaper,

The Keene Sentinel

.

However, after three hours at the border, the 46-year-old was told by the CBP that he wouldn’t be allowed back into the U.S. Instead, he was instructed to return to Canada and warned if he tried again to reenter the U.S., he would be immediately arrested. The only way for him to get back in would be to go before an immigration judge, Landry told NBC10 Boston from a relative’s home in New Brunswick.

The CBP told NBC Boston that “possessing a green card is a privilege, not a right, and under our nation’s laws, our government has the authority to revoke a green card if our laws are broken and abused. Lawful permanent residents presenting at a U.S. port of entry with previous criminal convictions may be subject to mandatory detention and/or may be asked to provide additional documentation to be set up for an immigration hearing.”

The CBP posted the same statement on its X account on Tuesday.

Attention Green Card Holders: Having a criminal history does not make you an upstanding lawful permanent resident. Possessing a green card is a privilege, not a right. Under our nation’s laws, our government has the authority to revoke your green card if our laws are broken and…

— CBP (@CBP) July 8, 2025

As a Canadian citizen, Landry couldn’t vote for president, but he says he supported Donald Trump. Now he blames the

Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration

for his dilemma.

“A misdemeanor shouldn’t be a deciding factor on the rest of my life,” Landry told the Sentinel. However, multiple convictions can, in some cases, be a reason not to grant a non-citizen entry to the U.S., according to American

federal law

.

After being contacted by Landry, New Hampshire Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan released a statement to the Sentinel: “Helping constituents navigate federal agencies and processes is a core function of Senator Hassan’s office. We can confirm that Mr. Landry reached out to our office and our constituent services team has been in touch with him. We won’t have any additional comment on specific details as is our general policy around ongoing constituent matters.” (The statement was not posted to Senator Hassan’s official website or her X account.)

This is not the first time a New England resident has faced trouble reentering the U.S. from eastern Canada. In April, a New Hampshire real estate attorney said he was returning home when he was

detained at the border

without an explanation.

Bachir Atallah and his wife, Jessica Fakhri, were traveling back from a quick family trip when they say U.S. Customs and Border Protection stopped them while reentering via the Quebec-Vermont border.

They had been visiting Canada for the weekend, but “on the way back, I was treated like a criminal,” Atallah told

NBC Boston

.

Atallah received his legal training in Maine,

founded his own law firm

and speaks English, French, Arabic and Russian. He has been a U.S. citizen for 10 years.

The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol

defended its actions

by calling Atallah’s account “blatantly false and sensationalized.”

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No Canadian NHL team has won a Stanley Cup in 32 years, meaning no Canadian NHL city has hosted a Stanley Cup parade for its hometown team in more than three decades.

But one Canadian city, too small to host an NHL team, is in early discussions for what could be its remarkable sixth Stanley Cup parade since 2007.

Halifax has produced some of the most exciting — and successful — hockey players of our time. And with them has come a tradition of bringing the Cup to their NHL-less hometown for parades that can draw tens of thousands of people.

Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby brought the coveted National Hockey League trophy back to his hometown of Cole Harbour, a suburb of Halifax, and toured it around the city, in 2009. He then repeated it in 2016, and again in 2017.

“All three of his parades were unbelievable,” Phil Pritchard, the “Keeper of the Cup” and legendary Hockey Hall of Fame curator, said in a recent interview.

“Most guys don’t really have parades and things like that. They have little town celebrations or community things. But Halifax went all-in.”

An estimated 25,000 people attended Crosby’s first hometown parade in 2009, with fans reportedly lining up 10 deep in some places to cheer on their hockey hero.

A similar parade route for Crosby in 2016 drew about 30,000 people. And when Sid the Kid was the marshal for the city’s 2017 Natal Day parade, that number reportedly doubled.

“What I found amazing about it was the people who came out in support, not just to watch the parade, but volunteered, that helped with security, that just helped out,” Pritchard said.

Thousands of people also showed up for Nathan MacKinnon’s 2022 parade in Halifax when he won the Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche, which Pritchard dubbed “equally as amazing” as the Crosby celebrations.

“Not to take anything away from Sidney or Nathan, but maybe it’s the people of Halifax – they’re hockey crazy,” Pritchard said. “And they’ve got two of the best players in the world playing, so maybe it all falls in together.”

Pritchard’s quick to point out that Joe DiPenta was the first hockey player to bring the Stanley Cup back to his hometown of Cole Harbour in 2007, as a member of the Anaheim Ducks. But his celebrations and parade were “a lot smaller,” Pritchard said.

Official Stanley Cup parades have been going on for more than a century. The first one the Hockey Hall of Fame could confirm marched down Winnipeg’s Main Street after the Winnipeg Victorias won the Cup in 1896, three years after it was first awarded.

For the past 30 years, players on Cup-winning teams each get at least a day with the storied trophy, to do with it as they please.

This year’s Cup champion, the Florida Panthers, has 100 days with the Stanley Cup, from the night they won it, June 17, until the NHL’s opening night in early October.

One of the breakout stars of this year’s Panthers is Halifax’s Brad Marchand. He won the Cup in 2011 with the Boston Bruins, but chose to celebrate with smaller events at Halifax City Hall and a visit to the local children’s hospital.

“He didn’t have a parade,” Pritchard said. “Not a lot of them do actual parades. The community has to get that going and Halifax has been great at it.”

The 37-year-old right winger, who hails from the Halifax suburb of Hammonds Plains, deserves a parade, according to Jason Wilson, who teaches a course about hockey in Canadian history at the University of Guelph.

“Marchand has proven himself to hockey fans everywhere. He has even convinced long-suffering Leafs fans like myself that he’s the real deal,” said Wilson, co-author of Lord Stanley: The Man Behind the Cup.

“His commitment to focusing on the game and shredding — though perhaps not altogether — his sometimes-bizarre non-hockey play on the ice, is a declaration of maturity. When you consider the Four Nations Cup and this past Stanley Cup playoffs, I think there’s an argument to be made that he has to be included among the top five most impactful players of 2025. An impact that surely has the good people of Hammonds Plains, N.S., planning a parade route for their ice warrior.”

Marchand scored six goals in five games for the Panthers during the 2025 Stanley Cup Final, including game-winning goals in both of their road wins, to help Florida take their second straight championship against the Edmonton Oilers.

“Brad doesn’t have a date picked yet” for his personal day with the Stanley Cup, Pritchard said.

That begs the question: should Halifax throw Marchand a parade?

“It takes more than one guy to have the parade,” Pritchard said, “the community’s got to get behind it.”

Halifax Mayor Andy Fillmore sounds keen on hosting a Marchand parade.

“Brad Marchand is a hometown legend and now a two-time Stanley Cup champion and Halifax couldn’t be prouder,” Fillmore said in an email.

“As mayor of Halifax, I’d love to welcome Brad home to celebrate this incredible win, with the Cup, of course. We’re in early discussions at the city about how to help make that happen. It’s entirely up to him, but if he’s game, we’d be thrilled to host him here in Halifax this summer.”

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OTTAWA —

U.S. President Donald Trump’s vow this week that he will impose heavy tariffs on copper imports

on Aug. 1 is of particular cause for concern in Quebec, which harbours Canada’s only copper smelting facility and a major refinery that do significant business across the border.

“There’s an impression of déjà vu,” said Emmanuelle Toussaint, president and CEO of the Quebec Mining Association. “Since the start of the year, there have been on several occasions declarations made about tariffs, and some of them have materialized.”

“Our first reaction is to say that we will follow the situation closely,” she added. “We’re really in a context where we are vigilant and preparing for this possibility.”

Industry players told National Post they are keeping a close eye on when Trump will sign an executive order imposing the tariffs, when they will come into force, whether they’ll be at the 50 per cent rate Trump promised, and how they could potentially affect both countries’ deeply integrated structures.

“Today we are doing copper,” Trump declared to reporters covering his cabinet meeting on Tuesday. “I believe the tariff on copper, we are going to make it 50 per cent.”

In February, the president

launched investigations under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962

into multiple products, including copper and pharmaceuticals, citing national security concerns.

The Commerce Department investigation was originally set to conclude by November 2025.

On Wednesday evening, Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social the tariffs would be effective Aug. 1.

Pierre Gratton, head of the Mining Association of Canada, said those tariffs would not have a great effect on copper mines, many of which are in British Columbia, as they sell to other markets in Europe and Asia. But he said it was concerning for the “midstream” operators in Quebec who refine and smelt copper.

The province is home to the Horne Smelter in Rouyn-Noranda — the only copper smelter in the country — and to the Canadian Copper Refinery (CCR) in Montreal East. Both facilities are owned by the Swiss multinational Glencore, which declined an interview for this article.

“Canada and the United States benefit from a robust and highly integrated copper supply chain — one that Glencore plays an active part in,” said Fabrice de Dongo, spokesperson for Glencore Canada, in a written statement.

“This is an important issue for our business, and we continue to watch developments closely,” he added.

In essence, Horne Smelter processes concentrate and recycled copper from mining operations and third parties, including from the U.S. The material is then shipped to CCR to be transformed into copper cathodes and sold on world markets, according to Glencore.

The U.S. only has a few active smelters in Utah and in Arizona. Sung Choi, metals and mining analyst at BloombergNEF, said it would take two to three years to build up more American smelting capacity.

Jean-Denis Charest, CEO of the Chamber of Commerce in Montreal East, said that CCR creates more than 1,300 direct and indirect jobs and generates around $300 million in economic benefits for the Montreal region alone.

“Of course, this is worrisome, but at the same time, we have to keep a cool head because there are lots of changes and lots of negotiations at play,” he said of the tariffs. “That being said, what happened in the steel and aluminum sectors is making me a bit more worried,” he said referring to

mass layoffs and production cutbacks in those sectors

after Trump raised tariffs to 50 per cent tariffs on Canadian aluminum and steel in June, from 25 per cent in March.

“We find ourselves in a movie in which we have already played but which is very problematic, and which will weaken our copper supply chains in North America,” Charest said.

The federal government has so far refused to comment on the copper threats until Trump has signed an executive order to enforce the tariffs and more details are available.

Toussaint, from the Quebec Mining Association, said it is still too early to speculate on job losses in Quebec should these new tariffs on copper move ahead. But she said prices are sure to jump if the U.S. imposes them and even more if Canada decides to retaliate. Copper prices this week have already hit record highs in the U.S., surging 13 per cent on Tuesday.

That means a spike in prices for electrical wires, telecommunications and electronic devices, but also plumbing, machinery, and construction materials, Toussaint said.

Prime Minister Mark Carney has already said he is prepared to match tariffs on steel and aluminum should Canada and the U.S. not come to a new economic and security agreement by July 21. But Toussaint said Carney should spare copper from any counter tariffs because the two countries’ supply chains are so heavily integrated.

Charles Cooper, head of copper research at Wood Mackenzie, agreed retaliation would be “counterproductive.” “I think once you start going into tit for tat, in that sense, eventually, everybody’s going to lose out,” he said.

Cooper said Carney probably recognizes that the U.S. might receive some weaker economic news over the next month or so, such as higher inflation numbers, which could make it a lot more difficult for Trump to continue hammering more tariffs.

“Once the reality sort of sets in… it’s a bit of a waiting game as well.”

— With additional files from Tracy Moran in Washington.

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OTTAWA— With Canada Post facing a dire fiscal future, the federal government is taking the first steps towards a possible overhaul of its mandate.

Public Services and Procurement Canada, the department responsible for Canada Post Corp. and the charter that dictates how often it delivers letters and parcels, is planning to launch consultations about the future of the Crown corporation.

“The goal is to engage Canadians and stakeholders to redefine the government’s service-oriented vision for Canada Post, in a context where the postal industry landscape has changed, the needs of Canadians have evolved, and the volume of mail and letters has declined significantly to the point where Canada Post’s sustainability has been undermined,” reads a department notice.

It said the consultations are meant to “Inform the analysis of the future of Canada Post and make recommendations to (the) cabinet.”

National Post requested clarification from the office of Joel Lightbound, the minister of the department, but did not receive one on Wednesday.

The department says the consultation plan has not yet been finalized, but it has identified this fall as the time when it could begin consultations.

“As part of its portfolio responsibilities, Public Services and Procurement Canada is exploring options to modernize Canada Post’s operations to best suit the needs of Canadians,” wrote ministry spokeswoman Nicole Allen, in a statement.

“Canada Post has a mandate to provide quality postal services to all Canadians in a secure and financially self-sustaining manner. Canada Post must be efficient and financially sustainable for the long term, and the government is exploring all options to that effect.”

A spokeswoman for Canada Post said the Canadian Postal Service Charter must be reviewed every five years. However, the last time the federal government did so was in 2018, meaning a review is now two years overdue.

The Crown corporation has underlined the need for the government to make major changes to the charter to alter the service standards that mandate Canada Post deliver mail to Canadians five days a week, given how few Canadians now send mail. It has also flagged concerns over rules preventing rural post office closures and stipulating the geographic density of postal outlets.

The current mandate has largely been unchanged since 2009, according to the corporation. It cited the mandate in a submission to the Industrial Inquiry Commission,

tasked earlier this year with handling a dispute between the corporation and its unions.

In it, Canada Post said the mandate has become a hindrance that prevents the postal service from modernizing.

Ian Lee, a professor at Carleton University’s business school, who has authored two reports on Canada Post’s situation over the past decade, sees the upcoming consultation as the “front end” of a process to restructure and “completely and radically reinvent the post office.”

Lee says a review into Canada Post’s operations is “inevitable” given how the corporation’s figures show it to be “hemorrhaging cash,” with losses only predicted to get worse as fewer and fewer Canadians send letters. Canada Post has also faced intensifying competition for parcels from private delivery companies.

Last year, Canada Post cited a loss of around $1.3 billion, on top of a $750 million loss in 2023. It said its back-to-back losses since 2018 amounted to around $4.5 billion. Earlier this year,

the federal government loaned the Crown corporation $1 billion

to continue operating as it faces “significant financial challenges.” Without it, Canada Post said it would have depleted its financial reserves this year.

Lee says that admission makes clear that operating the postal service as is is no longer sustainable.

Coupled with Canada finding itself in a trade war with the U.S., and Prime Minister Mark Carney promising to spend billions more on defence, Lee said the federal government won’t want to spend billions propping up the post office.

“This is a luxury we can no longer afford,” Lee said.

Adding to the postal service’s troubles has been a labour dispute with its workers that has dragged out for 18 months.

Last month, Employment Minister Patty Hajdu approved the corporation’s request to

force a vote on its final offer to the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW)

, which the union called an attack on workers’ rights. Hajdu had said she wanted it as “soon as possible,” but the union asked for more time, citing confusion over the voting process. The union has been in a legal strike position since May 2.

The dispute resulted in a strike

late last year that disrupted Christmas mail

, before the government intervened with forced arbitration in mid-December. It has led to other labour action, including workers refusing overtime. Canada Post

settled a contract dispute with its second-largest union

, the Canadian Postmasters and Assistants Association, in June.

When it comes to a mandate review, CUPW said in a statement it was aware of the government’s intention to consult about the postal service’s future, calling it a “critical opportunity for Canadians to help shape a Canada Post that truly serves the public interest.”

It said it wanted to ensure “all voices are heard,” saying that in past reviews, it has made submissions and sought input from seniors’ groups and students, as well as rural and remote communities, farmers, and other unions.

Lee said one risk the government runs by embarking on consultations is hearing from those “who care the most” about maintaining postal service, such as people living in rural areas and older people.

The task for the government, he says, is to “temper” the feedback it receives with the reality that “mail volumes have collapsed.” In 2006, Canada Post delivered 5.5 billion letters, but just 2 billion letters in 2024,

its annual report said

.

“I think that they’re going to change the mandate,” Lee said. “The only question is, are they going to go to what, three days a week, two days a week, one day a week, and that’s yet to be determined.”

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