Cruel summer: Tariffs are hitting your fishing rods, tents and barbecues

During the first week of February, amid the fog and chaos of the opening days of the trade war, Sam Waddington found himself scrambling to field calls from confused suppliers of his outdoor adventure store in Chilliwack, B.C., an experience eerily reminiscent of the pandemic five years earlier. While that "groundhog day" feeling has passed, the flurry of e-mails and phone calls from the American vendors he relies on for 20 per cent of the premium camping, hiking and mountaineering products he carries has continued. But now they echo the same, unnerving message: We're sorry for what our President is…