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Friday Focus: Trump cancels trade talks with Canada and targets Russia with sanctions
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The s…
5 months, 1 week ago
Putin's hold over Trump and Pierre Poilievre makes a stunning accusation
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5 months, 2 weeks ago
Friday Focus: Hamas's public executions and Zelensky presses Trump for Tomahawk missiles
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The s…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Trump's Middle East diplomacy and why Canada should re-evaluate its auto sector subsidies
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5 months, 2 weeks ago
Friday Focus: Trump's Gaza deal, the details that could derail it, and the Middle East's new power players
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The s…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Trump sends in the National Guard (again) and Mark Carney goes to Washington
Rudyard and Andrew react to the deployment of U.S. National Guard troops to American cities, specifically guards from red states being sent into blue…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Friday Focus: Trump gives Hamas an ultimatum and how "AI slop" is working against productivity
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The s…
6 months ago
Trump's military speech ramblings should concern every Canadian
Rudyard and Andrew unpack the speeches made this week by U.S. Secretary of Defense Hegseth and President Trump to over 800 military generals. Trump i…
6 months ago
Friday Focus: Trump's warning to European countries, and what Canada should learn from their mistakes
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The s…
6 months, 1 week ago
Carney's Palestinian statehood recognition comes without conditions and the powerful companies benefiting from Trump's authoritarianism
What should we make of Canada's formal recognition of Palestinian statehood at the UN? What happened to the conditions the government had originally …
6 months, 1 week ago