#204 Pressure-Cooked Octopus

March 13, 2019

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While we're all busy talking about the propriety of the SNC-Lavalin affair, it bears revisiting the company's sordid past. Also, how is the media culpable for whitewashing reconciliation? And Pizzagate comes to Canada.

David Crosbie

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Jesse Brown

Host & Publisher

Sandy Garossino co-hosts. Read her piece, The hidden key to the SNC-Lavalin scandal.

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