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Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

A changing climate brings risks of all sorts and uncertainty at every turn. A growing number of

startups is tackling that, feeding reams of climate data into economic models, and investors want

in on the insights. And Sweden has quite a lot of billionaires, but there's not the same resentment

of them that you see elsewhere. There's not even a hefty wealth tax anymore. We ask whether there's

a lesson there for how other countries deal with their super rich.

But first, for decades there's been a separatist movement brewing in Canada. Quebec, a mostly

French-speaking province, has held two referendums on succession. Amid fears it will be assimilated

into the rest of the English-speaking country. But a new breakaway movement now has even more

traction than that of the Quebec-Wah, this time in Canada's West.

Wexit is the name given to the latest successionist movement here in Canada.

Jen Gerson has been writing about Wakes It for the Economist.

Right now it's a fairly fringe movement which hopes to see the West of Canada separate from

the rest of the nation. So where is this Wakes It sentiment centered? What's the area like?

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