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The Intelligence from The Economist

Running to stand still: Canada’s election

The Intelligence from The Economist

The Economist

Global News, Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remains in power after Monday’s election, but he emerges without the majority he wanted, and with his soft power damaged. He now faces a fourth wave of the pandemic and an emboldened far-right from a weaker position. Child labour fell markedly in the 16 years after the turn of the millennium. Now it’s on the rise again. Efforts to prevent children from working can often exacerbate the problem. And we consider one of the more unusual ideas for combating climate change: potty-training cows.

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0:00.0

This is Katherine Ryan from Telling Everybody Everything, and I'm here to talk to you about Mercedes-Benz

0:04.9

and how they're making your life easier through groundbreaking innovations with their cars.

0:10.1

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0:15.7

such as a faster way to work if your route is congested, or a playlist of all your favorite songs.

0:21.1

All you need to do is ask. You can also create a unique user profile to set up your car just the way

0:26.4

you like it, which remembers your ambient lighting preferences for an ultimate personalized driving

0:32.0

experience. It can even remind you to call your mom on the way home. Mercedes-Benz are also

0:37.3

going to be making your life easier very soon in another way, by changing the way you buy a new car,

0:42.9

and it all begins on the 3rd of January 2023. Just go to Mercedes-Benz.co.uk to find out more.

0:57.3

Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. I'm your host, Shashankoishi,

1:02.5

filling in for Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping

1:08.4

your world. After years of declines, Charles Labour is on the rise again, and the pandemic has

1:15.1

only exacerbated that trend. We look at why well-intentioned bands imposed by rich countries

1:21.0

on goods made by children might actually make the problem worse.

1:25.7

And if you're the parent of a small child or the owner of a puppy, you know how hard it is to

1:30.8

coax your little ones to pee in the right place at the right time. Well, imagine persuading a cow

1:36.8

to do it. We'll take you into the strange world of bovine toilet training.

1:48.9

First up though.

1:53.3

Just in Trudeau has won a third term as Canada's Prime Minister. It's just over a month since he called

1:58.7

a snap election. Let us not forget the past, and the dark days we have come through together.

2:04.8

But let us still more look to the future, and all that is still to come, and all that we have

2:12.7

still to build together. Mr. Trudeau had hoped to firm up the position of his centre left liberal

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