Canuck of the draw: Canada’s election campaigns
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The Conservative Party, led by a Trump-tinged populist, once had the polls locked up. That is changing radically now that Donald Trump is seen as a threat to the nation. Amid America’s foreign-policy misfires, China might choose to smooth diplomatic feathers and make friends; instead it, too, is muscle-flexing (8:14). And an unsettling new book typifies a rise in dystopian fiction (13:45).
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| 0:00.0 | We're all so busy. |
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| 1:00.8 | The Economist. |
| 1:08.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm Rosie Bloor. |
| 1:13.2 | And I'm Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:22.8 | You might think that with Donald Trump's somewhat maverick style of diplomacy, |
| 1:27.2 | China would be on a |
| 1:28.2 | charm offensive right now. Our correspondent tells us why that doesn't quite seem to be happening. |
| 1:35.8 | And our culture editor reviews a new book that's part of a wave of dystopian fiction. It considers |
| 1:42.1 | the nexus between technology, personal freedom, criminality. |
| 1:46.3 | What's unsettling about it is how easily that fiction could be the future. |
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