Canada's New Leader, ICE Arrest Columbia Student, Congress and The Budget

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🗓️ 10 March 2025

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Canada's ruling Liberal Party has a new leader, Mark Carney, a former central banker who now faces the challenge of steering the country through economic turmoil and a tense trade relationship with the United States. Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student and pro-Palestinian activist, has been arrested by ICE agents. And, House Republicans unveil a stopgap funding bill to keep the government running through September, but with Democrats opposing it, passing the bill will require almost every GOP vote.

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0:00.0	Canada's new prime minister says he's ready for conflict with its neighbor and up to now closest ally.
0:09.0	We didn't ask for this fight, but Canadians are always ready when someone else drops the gloves.
0:13.9	What does Mark Carney plan to do?
0:16.0	I'm Steve Inskeep with A Martinez, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:22.0	Immigration authorities arrested a Columbia graduate student who led protests over Gaza.
0:27.3	His lawyer says agents gave no reason.
0:29.6	I demanded to see a warrant, and the agent hung up the phone on me.
0:34.4	What do process, if any, does the government owe a legal permanent resident?
0:38.7	Also, Congress has just days to avoid our government shutdown.
0:41.8	House Speaker Mike Johnson wants to do it without negotiating with Democrats.
0:45.2	What would it take for almost every Republican to agree?
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1:13.9	People gathered at an arena in Canada's capital and heard the results of a vote for the leader of the governing party.
1:19.4	In first place, the next Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, with 131,674 votes resulting in.
1:31.4	Mark Carney won a kind of mini-election among Liberal Party members, and his landslide win
1:37.2	means he will now replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who's leaving office just as Canada
1:42.3	faces a confrontation with the United States.
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