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Author Archives: Rick Salutin

Rick Salutin is an novelist, playwright and freelance journalist based in Toronto, Canada. He has written columns for Canadian Business, Toronto Life, TV Times, Rabble.ca and This Magazine, of which he is a founding editor, as well as a series of plays, novels and books. He was The Globe and Mail media columnist from 1991 to 1999 and is now an op-ed columnist with that paper.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US

“Mr. Trudeau Goes to Washington”

by Dimitri Lascaris and Rick Salutin

Rick Salutin and Dimitri Lascaris examine what happens when political celebrities tackle climate change Story Transcript JUSTIN TRUDEAU: [Translated from French] Canadians have chosen change, real change. SHARMINI PERIES, EXEC. PRODUCER, TRNN: That was the newly-elected Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, on election night. Justin Trudeau arrived in Washington on Wednesday. A highly-anticipated state dinner […]