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The Q&A: "You're competing in the most absurd, oversaturated field"
Singer Dan Mangan on attention-getting tools for an era of information overload
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The Summer Reading Episode
At last, a fresh podcast. Proudfoot, Reid, Woods and Wells on the joy of a book and time to read it
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46:50
Carney's clarity act
If the government's going to change how it spends, it should change how it talks about spending
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The Q&A: "Spending targets need to be accompanied by very clear capability targets"
Defense analyst Minna Ålander on the substance and the noise in a historic year for NATO
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Encore: The social-media chaos machine
Author Max Fisher on his definitive book about Big Algorithm
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46:40
Daddy's club
To NATO's top civilian, the alliance makes no sense without Trump. Plus: a letter from the new Clerk (not to me)
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Binney: A Montreal story
At Montreal's jazz festival, music wins
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The Q&A: "It was going to be complicated and messy"
A tax expert on the departed Digital Services Tax, and the fiscal and policy holes it leaves behind
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The Canadian face
A new book makes well-earned noise for the Kingston Prize, which has been fuelling a renaissance in Canadian portrait art for two decades
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Encore: Sarah Slean on Joni Mitchell
"Then you listen in your 40s and you're like, 'Oh.'"
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June 2025

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