October 24, 2025
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#1251 China Just Let Canadian Reporters Come Back
Canada is renewing trade ties with China and India, but are willing to forget our complicated history with these two nations? Do we even have a choice? 
Jesse Brown
Host & Publisher
James Nicholson
Producer
Caleb Thompson
Audio Editor
max collins
Director of Audio

Plus, the Globe and Mail returns to China and goes to a fish market, and the CBC’s brave new plan to win over people who don’t like the CBC.

 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Jules Bugiel (Associate producer and Fact Checking) Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor)

Guest: Jan Wong

 

 

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