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Manitoba rolling up with solidarity and a sense of humor. I can drink to that.

Good movie to watch in these times BTW

Local journalism matters. The CBC is hiring. cbc.ca/news/canada/wo…

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"No two countries work as closely as ours." Why is Trump invited for a second state visit when Canada - a country where The King is also head of state - is enduring tense trade relations with them? Jon Sopel and Lewis Goodall ask Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Coincidentally, Trump’s tariff hikes are the largest tax increase since 1993.

I've been trying to get this show done for 20 years. And now we have. English and French on the same show, and not in their two solitudes. Please watch on March 20. And yes, we'll have subtitles of the other #language.

Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Within an hour of starting interviews, I had the names of a 10-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl who had died because of decisions by wealthy men in

"In recent meetings, senior Australian officials have continued discussing exporting and installing the JORN technology on the United States' west coast, but the massive project faces uncertainty under the Elon Musk-led DOGE audit of Pentagon spending." abc.net.au/news/2025-03-1…

Re-upping this post on the caretaker convention as we head into an election this weekend: "Crisis government and the caretaker convention" lagassep.substack.com/p/crisis-gover…

How Trump uses disinformation in his trade war with Canada | CBC News cbc.ca/news/politics/…

A few thoughts on the 25% tariff on imports of finished automobiles. Imports are just under $275b (2024), or just over 0.9 pp of US GDP. The "just pay it" cost of the tariff is about 23 bp of 2024 GDP ... 1/ many

Moment of the Day today belongs to European Commission spokesman Olof Gill and this response to the new U.S. tariffs on cars from Europe and elsewhere:

Me every morning of the campaign when my phone buzzes at 4 a.m.

➡️ Canada now needs to worry about diversion for certain products (esp commodities) as a result of massive tariffs on its trading partners here - it is already consulting on new steel tariffs against other countries who are being shut out of the US market

I had to double check this wasn't posed on April 1.

If you're near your radio tomorrow, I hope you'll tune in: cbc.ca/programguide/p… (And if you aren't: this special feature is also a podcast... URL to follow) CBC World Report CBC's The House

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ICYMI yesterday - link to listen in this story: cbc.ca/news/politics/…

I'm reading some incorrect information here. The SITE task force briefing today made a point of saying the targeting of CPC candidate Joe Tay was, in their assessment, *party-agnostic* transnational repression: amplify arrest warrant, suppress information about his candidacy.