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It's the mid-point of the year and it's the economic question everyone is asking - what's going to happen with interest rates?

On this episode of In This Economy - you'll hear from an expert about whether our economy is weakening and what that means for you.

Host Mike Eppel speaks with Royce Mendes, Managing Director of Macro Strategy at Desjardins.

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Stop us if you're heard this one before - a Trump threat on social media about tariffs rattles Canada.

Because of a digital tax that's supposed to come into effect on Monday, Trump says that any trade talks with our country are done. The statement was made on his Truth Social account Friday afternoon.

This ends any optimism that was there after the G7 summit when we were hearing that a new trade deal could be forthcoming in 30 days.

So what happens next?

Host Cormac Mac Sweeney speaks with Carleton University Professor of International Affairs Fen Hampson.

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Tens of thousands of migrants choose between life or death in a quest to leave home in hopes of a better life, even if it means spending months working for cash just to pay a smuggler who will hopefully get a small boat filled past the brim to the other side of the journey.

Aliou Candé made that very decision in 2019 - in hopes of a better future for his parents, two children and pregnant wife.

A bullet to the neck at a secret, Libyan prison in 2021 killed that dream. He never saw the better life.

Host Maria Kestane speaks to Ian Urbina, Director of the Outlaw Ocean Project and host of the Outlaw Ocean Podcast about season two of the anthology where he details the story of Aliou Candé, and how his reporting of those secretive, migrant prisons almost cost him his life at the hands of Libyan militias.

You can find more on the CBC series below:

The Outlaw Ocean is an anthology podcast that plunges you into the vast and often lawless world of the open seas.

In season two, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Ian Urbina sheds light on the secretive Libyan prisons swallowing up sea-faring migrants; flagrant human rights abuses in China’s massive off-shore fleet; the horrors of a shrimp processing plant in India; and the wild story of a modern-day James Bond — if he were a repo man.

Urbina and his team repeatedly risk their safety to tell stories powerful people don’t want you to know. As podcast reviewer Lauren Passell notes, “Ian’s not relying on research, he was there [...] Outlaw Ocean makes you feel like you’re there, too.”

This immersive audio documentary series brings together more than eight years of reporting at sea on all seven oceans and more than three dozen countries.

You can find The Outlaw Ocean wherever you get your podcasts, and here: https://link.mgln.ai/Ci678x

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In a newly released study, Canada's Competition Bureau says there is a way to lower the cost of plane tickets and give Canadians more flight options.

The Bureau suggests changing the rules around foreign ownership, which is currently capped in this country, leading to what it says is weak competition and therefore, an impediment to lower prices.

Host Cormac Mac Sweeney talks about the new report with Brad Callaghan, Associate Deputy Commissioner at the Competition Bureau of Canada.

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Housing affordability is a buzz word lately but how likely is it that it will actually become reality?

Actual action on the issue has been really slow and housing starts aren't running at a pace that's it would need to be from a supply standpoint to make a meaningful difference.

So what are the issues? What are the barriers to fixing this serious problem?

Host Mike Eppel talks to Jordan Thomson, Director , Infrastructure Advisory at K-P-M-G Canada.

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