Friday night on my radio show I may have lost my mind on CBC and their arrogance. One of their executives was completely dismissive of the idea that they shouldn’t be competing agains newspapers using tax dollars. Listen in as my head explodes on air.
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This fight is going on across North America and low income workers are being lied to that this will actually help them.

New York Times;

Germany’s largest bank appears in danger, sending stock markets worldwide on a wild ride. Yet the biggest source of worry is less about its finances than a vast tangle of unknowns — not least, whether Europe can muster the will to mount a rescue in the event of an emergency.
In short, fears that Europe lacks the cohesion to avoid a financial crisis may be enhancing the threat of one.
The immediate source of alarm is the health of Deutsche Bank, whose vast and sprawling operations are entangled with the fates of investment houses from Tokyo to London to New York.
Deutsche is staring at a multibillion-dollar fine from the Justice Department for its enthusiastic participation in Wall Street’s festival of toxic mortgage products in the years leading up to financial crisis of 2008. Given Deutsche’s myriad other troubles — a role in the manipulation of a financial benchmark, claims of trades that violated Russian sanctions and a generalized sense of confusion about its mission — the American pursuit of a stiff penalty comes at an inopportune time.
It heightens the sense that Deutsche — whose shares have lost more than half their value this year — needs to secure additional investment, lest it leave itself vulnerable to some new crisis.

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A bit more than, “…their photo taken with thousands of Canadians…”, no?

A few months before being elected prime minister, Justin Trudeau was the featured speaker at a Richmond business lunch sponsored by a company of a Vancouver immigration consultant accused of defrauding Chinese immigrant investors.