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important facts in Raoul's voice. What's not to like?

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Now, let me give you what you need to know this Tuesday.

Mark Carney can have a well-deserved extra portion of bacon and maple syrup today

after leading the Liberals to victory in Canadian

elections, in a stunning turnaround of fortunes for the ruling party. It's yet to be determined

whether they will win a majority as counting of the votes continues, but it's clear they will

come ahead of the Conservatives. It's a result that was pretty much unthinkable just a few

months ago when the Liberal Party,

still led by Justin Trudeau at the time, trailed badly in the polls. The result is seen as a major

rebuke of US President Donald Trump's tariffs and his comments about making Canada the 51st state.

Carney is a former governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England.

Meanwhile, Raoul's favourite country in the world, Spain, is trying to pull itself back together

after a massive power cut yesterday caused chaos in most of the country, alongside its neighbour Portugal.

By lunchtime in Europe, it was still unknown what caused the unprecedented blackout.

For Raoul's sake, I hope none of the Riaoca plantations got badly affected.

Meanwhile, the Spanish economy rose by 0.6% quarter on quarter in the first three months of this year,

which is the lowest number in several quarters. Tomorrow we'll get the GDP data

for the wider Eurozone, but for now we know that there's been a slump in industrial and consumer

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