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Podcast: Closer Look
Episode: ‘Canada is not for sale’: How a patriotic hat became so much more
Description: Even now, months later, Liam Mooney has a hard time believing just how fast everything came together.One day, he and his wife, Emma Cochrane, were watching Premier Doug Ford on television, talking about Donald Trump’s 51st state rhetoric and how Canada would never be for sale. A few days later, the Ottawa-based couple had stitched together a hat bearing Ford’s patriotic message — a hat that Ford himself would soon be sporting.From there, the design went viral: “CANADA IS NOT FOR SALE.”As hat sales soared, Mooney learned a lot about the...