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Elias Makos is joined by Jonathan Kalles, Vice President at McMillan Vantage, a national public affairs firm, and former advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Akil Alleyne, Reporter and commentator with extensive experience analysing legal, political, and social issues and Manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program
Among the topics discussed
- Canada’s Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections Task Force says the Chinese government is behind a campaign in the last month that saw posts about Mark Carney
- A false rumor about a 90-day pause in tariffs sent US stock markets surging yesterday
- Liberal leader Mark Carney is proposing a significant funding boost for CBC/Radio-Canada
- China has vowed to “fight to the end” and retaliate after Donald Trump threatened a 50% tariff hike on Chinese imports
- The trial of Pierre Ny St-Amand, the bus driver accused of killing two children and injuring six others when he drove into a Laval daycare in 2023, was back in Superior Court yesterday.