Expats & Allies

Last week, The Maple announced that we are merging with Passage. On this week's episode of North Untapped, Alex Cosh and Davide Mastracci, Passage's former managing editor and now The Maple's opinions editor, talk about why we decided to make this big change, address questions about it from our readers, and discuss whether either of us will ever be invited onto a CBC political panel.

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We spoke to writer Listen Chen about their recent article for The Breach examining how the current panic about alleged interference by China in Canadian elections is a troubling omen of a new Cold War.  We talk about the roots of the panic, how it puts ordinary members of the Chinese diaspora community at risk, and how it erases the diversity of viewpoints within that community.

Read Listen's article: https://breachmedia.ca/canadas-china-panic-is-an-omen-of-dangerous-cold-war-politics/

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We read out our recent scoop revealing that ahead of a meeting with Qatar’s minister of foreign affairs at the FIFA World Cup last year, International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan was briefed to lobby for a potential deal between a Canadian light-armoured vehicle supplier and the Qatari military.

Read the full story: https://www.readthemaple.com/minister-lobbied-qataris-for-light-armoured-vehicle-deal-at-world-cup/

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We spoke to Passage's managing editor Davide Mastracci about the problems with Global News' reporting on MP Han Dong, who was accused by two unnamed sources of advising the Chinese government to delay the release of two Canadians from jail in that country in 2021. Dong has emphatically denied the allegation.

Read Davide's article: https://readpassage.com/i-dont-trust-global-news-reporting-on-han-dong/

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We spoke to B.C.-based journalist Emma Arkell about how for-profit corporations expanded into the province's long-term care sector, the consequences on public health, and how workers fought back against the changes.

Follow Emma on Twitter: @EmmaArkell7

Read Emma's recent piece for The Maple: https://www.readthemaple.com/how-for-profit-corporations-swallowed-up-b-c-s-long-term-care-sector/

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We spoke to Dru Oja Jay from The Breach about why a new bill proposing to make Google and Facebook share a portion of their profits with Canadian news outlets will likely end up subsidizing the profits and debt repayments of corporate media giants.

Support The Breach: https://breachmedia.ca/support-us/

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We share our readers' thoughts on whether we should continue tipping service workers more or demand that employers pay their workers better base wages, even if that means increasing costs for the consumer.

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We're joined by Peter Smith of the Canada Anti-Hate Network to discuss why Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warmly congratulated far-right leader Giorgia Meloni's election victory in Italy last fall, and what newly obtained documents tell us about the balancing act between diplomacy and criticizing right-wing extremism on the world stage.

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This week, North Untapped host Alex Cosh went on the CJPME Debrief podcast to talk about The Maple's recent reporting on Canada's response to major incidents in Israel.

Subscribe to CJPME Debrief here: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/cjpme-debrief/id1597601276

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We read out some of our readers' thoughts on a recent Statistics Canada report that showed one-in-five houses and condos were used as investment properties in British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in 2020.

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