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Friday Focus: ABC capitulates to Trump and what to expect in Canada's upcoming federal budget
Friday Focus: ABC capitulates to Trump and what to expect in Canada's upcoming federal budget

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, 2 weeks ago

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Friday Focus: Charlie Kirk's assassination points to a democracy in trouble and a debate about Israel's strike in Qatar
Friday Focus: Charlie Kirk's assassination points to a democracy in trouble and a debate about Israel's strike in Qatar

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, 3 weeks ago

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Trump is stuck in a dangerous spiral feedback loop and Rudyard and Andrew debate Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker program
Trump is stuck in a dangerous spiral feedback loop and Rudyard and Andrew debate Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker program

Donald Trump's AI image to threaten "war" on the city of Chicago is further evidence that he is stuck in a spiral feedback loop with his followers, i…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

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Friday Focus: China's great power performance and Mark Carney's bad budget messaging
Friday Focus: China's great power performance and Mark Carney's bad budget messaging

This week's SCO summit in China projected a series of powerful images about the rise of China and the cleaving of the world into two power blocs. Put…

6 months, 4 weeks ago

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A public display of friendship between China, Russia, and India is a searing indictment of Trump's foreign policy
A public display of friendship between China, Russia, and India is a searing indictment of Trump's foreign policy

Rudyard and Andrew start the show talking about this week's China summit with 20 leaders of non-Western countries, including India, Russia, Iran, and…

7 months ago

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Friday Focus: Trump takes aim at the CDC and Putin is undeterred
Friday Focus: Trump takes aim at the CDC and Putin is undeterred

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…

7 months ago

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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: the US slides towards dictatorship and Carney clings to Canada's peacemaking past
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: the US slides towards dictatorship and Carney clings to Canada's peacemaking past

In the past week alone there has been an FBI raid on John Bolton's home and a threat to investigate former New Jersey governor Chris Christie due to …

7 months, 1 week ago

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Friday Focus: Trump is a foreign policy wrecking ball, and Carney goes from elbows up to elbows down
Friday Focus: Trump is a foreign policy wrecking ball, and Carney goes from elbows up to elbows down

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…

7 months, 1 week ago

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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: a phony peace deal for Ukraine could put all of Europe at risk
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: a phony peace deal for Ukraine could put all of Europe at risk

Rudyard and Andrew unpack the latest meeting between Trump, Zelensky and European leaders that seems to have yielded no real progress in resolving th…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

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Friday Focus: China's tax on Canadian canola and TIFF abandons the principles of free speech
Friday Focus: China's tax on Canadian canola and TIFF abandons the principles of free speech

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…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

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