February 5, 2025
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#1102 You Got a Fentanyl Czar, I Got a Plan to Get Us Out of Here
A tariff reprieve and the trade war that wasn’t. 
Noor Azrieh
Producer
James Nicholson
Producer
Caleb Thompson
Audio Editor
max collins
Director of Audio
Jesse Brown
Host & Publisher

Trump’s tariff threats caused a frenzy of breaking news coverage, but can we really fault Canadian news outlets for reporting Trump’s every move? 

 

Jen St. Denis of the Tyee joins Noor Azrieh to assess the breathless tariff coverage and what we’ve learned so far about covering Trump 2.0. 

 

Host: Noor Azrieh

Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Sam Konnert (Fact Checking), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor)

Guest: Jen St Denis

 

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