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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: 10 ideas to save a broken Canada—from the Jewish policy expert who says 2023 will be ‘brutish and nasty’
Description: Irvin Studin used to be a professional soccer player, and the policy expert, academic and think-tank head likes sporting terminology. Which means, in the aftermath of the pandemic, the nation needs to win the next game—or we risk losing Canada.
That’s the premise of Studin’s new book, Canada Must Think for Itself: 10 Theses for Our Country’s Survival and Success in the 21st Century.
The son of Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union—who currently lives in Richmond Hill, Ont.—takes a look at COVID-19’s devastating impact on government, health care, the economy, education, national unity...