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Steve Paikin and Caryn Ceolin discuss Mark Carney’s expected industrial carbon pricing deal with Alberta and Donald Trump’s meetings with Xi Jinping in Beijing amidst the ongoing war in Iran.

Steve Paikin and Caryn Ceolin discuss Mark Carney’s expected industrial carbon pricing deal with Alberta, the political balancing act around western alienation, and Donald Trump’s meetings with Xi Jinping in Beijing as the war in Iran continues. This is your Morning Brief for Friday, May 15th.

People in this episode

Host: Steve Paikin

Guest: Caryn Ceolin

Topics covered

• industrial carbon pricing
• political balancing act
• western alienation
• Trump in China
• Iran war

Keywords

• Mark Carney
• Alberta
• Trump
• Xi Jinping
• Iran
• carbon pricing
• politics

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Places: Alberta, China, Iran

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