Not trucking around: Canada’s protests spread
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
It has become much more than a fight against proof-of-vaccination strictures. The anti-government mood has spread in Canada and abroad. What happens next? Haiti has received billions upon billions in foreign assistance but its situation remains dire; we ask why all that aid has not aided much. And Reader’s Digest, a surprisingly influential American snappy-excerpts magazine, turns 100.
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| 1:03.8 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. Every |
| 1:09.4 | weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:17.6 | Lawlessness and instability in Haiti keep getting worse. |
| 1:21.7 | It's a country that suffered even more from natural disasters than it has from bad governance, |
| 1:26.8 | and international aid has poured |
| 1:28.5 | in for decades. So why hasn't all that cash improved Haiti's situation? And if you know it at all, |
| 1:36.6 | you probably know it from doctor's offices. Reader's Digest has, as of this month, been around |
| 1:41.8 | for a century, so far defying the death spiral of so many print magazines. |
| 1:46.8 | We look into how it got its start and why it stuck around. |
| 1:55.6 | First up, though... |
| 2:08.9 | In the center of Ottawa, Canada's capital protests led by truck drivers are into their third week, |
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