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As seen in: MSN, MSN Canada, Business Insider, MSN Money Canada, Yahoo Canada, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), CBBL-FM (London, ON), CBC Kitchener-Waterloo, CBC News, CBC Ottawa and
For 28 years: a journalist @ CBC, POLITICO, CP. Next: getting a master’s in Artificial Intelligence management at Georgetown.
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ANALYSIS | Stepping off the Trump treadmill: A CBC correspondent bids farewell to Washington | CBC News

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By Alexander Panetta
| CBC News
I got a journalism tip over drinks from a veteran Canadian correspondent when I first landed in Washington more than a decade ago — a formula for stories guaranteed to thrill audiences back home. In summary? The more ridiculous Americans look, the better. Guns, rednecks, cultural stereotypes, I was told, if you've got that, you've got gold. Canadians eat that stuff up. The exchange never left me. As I depart Washington a dozen years later, it's still on my mind, and not because it was inaccurate.
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Confessions of a gun smuggler: How I brought weapons into Canada Original

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By Alexander Panetta
| CBC News
Everyone knows guns used by Canadian criminals are often smuggled from the U.S. Not everyone knows how — not like Naomi Haynes does. That's because she did the smuggling. A native Montrealer who's been living in the U.S. for decades, she helped traffic dozens of weapons into Canada, some linked directly to drug gangs. "I wasn't thinking about the havoc I was causing in my birth land," she told CBC News last week. "I've got my kids, I've got bills.
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Here's Trump's endgame in Iran | CBC News

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By Alexander Panetta
| CBC News
The United States now appears at the cusp of a development scarcely conceivable just days ago: direct involvement in bombing Iran. President Donald Trump has begun by dropping something else: hint, after unsubtle hint, that the U.S. might assist Israel in attacking unspecified targets in its conflict with Iran.
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