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Posted: May 15, 2021 2:49 PM ET | Last Updated: May 15
More than a dozen new podcasts hosted by Canadian politicians have cropped up since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.(Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty Images)
The COVID-19 pandemic in Canada has sparked a curious boom: a flurry of podcasts created and hosted by politicians.
Members of Parliament, senators and others have gotten in on the action, with more than a dozen new audio offerings hitting the virtual airwaves since last spring.
The CBC s Madeleine Cummings investigated the phenomenon for a segment that aired Saturday on
The House.
Moments with Mumilaaq, hosted by NDP Nunavut MP Mumilaaq Qaqqaq;
We are 20 years into the 21st century already, but it seems that the last century has not yet left us. And I’m not talking about the fashion of always reliving some past decade to launch “aesthetic…
Yves here. The article cites a list by Robert Reich of how people become billionaires. Reich’s categories wind up missing private equity, since Reich assumes the only way people get rich in money management is via inside information. In fact, someone is twice as likely to become a billionaire by managing money as he is by going into tech. Asset management has strong scale economies based on the size of fund. Get a big enough fund and charge high enough fees (and in private equity, they are both rapacious and well disguised) and you get rich.
The cover of the May 20, 2020 issue of