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Mar 2025
54m 6s

Canada's Trump election: Sleazy politics...

Ben Norton
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How is the US impacting Canada's elections, as Donald Trump imposes tariffs and even threatens to annex the country? Who is the banker turned Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney? To discuss, political economist Radhika Desai is joined by Dimitri Lascaris, host of the independent media outlet Reason2Resist. VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZweNi7ycKM ... Show More
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