Yukon’s booming capital girds for trade war

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Open this photo in gallery: The Northerm Windows factory in Kwanlin/Whitehorse, on March 27.Alistair Maitland/The Globe and Mail Yukon’s biggest manufacturer lives and dies by trade with locales far from its northern home base, and that means U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff war, and any Canadian countermeasures, will strike at the heart of its business. Whitehorse-based Northerm Windows and Doors imports many of the materials for its products – including glass – from the United States, and fills orders for customers in Yukon, Northwest Territories, northern British Columbia and Alaska. It has a subsidiary in Anchorage, where it sends more...