And when the Liberals promised to plant 2 billion trees, they probably weren’t betting that anyone would actually try to keep count.

The Narwhal’s Mike De Souza joins Jonathan on Short Cuts.

Host: Jonathan Goldsbie

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Guest: Mike De Souza 

Further reading: 

• CBC, media groups ask Competition Bureau to investigate Meta’s move to block news in Canada – CBC
• Do It, F*ckers! – How Things Work
• Was Elon Musk’s banning of rival social-media links on Twitter illegal? – The Globe and Mail (2022)
• Opinion: What’s B.C.’s next move on Fairy Creek logging? – The Narwhal
• Oilsands giants lobbied to weaken emissions cap – The Narwhal
• Ottawa modifie discrètement son calcul des deux milliards d’arbres – Le Devoir
• Turns out that wasn’t the tweet – Paul Wells

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