Why Putin sent a U.S. trained banker to negotiate with the Trump Administration

PLUS: Ranking Connor McDavid's overtime game-winner in the pantheon of great Canadian hockey moments; after a record amount of snow, Montreal aims to clear it in record time; it's not your imagination, job hunting really is getting worse; tracking the effects of Alberta's policies restricting LGBTQ youth; how Germany's federal election is causing cracks in the country's firewall against far-right politics; and Riffed from the Headlines, our weekly musical news quiz.

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CLARIFICATION: In this episode, we said that "some of the changes [being brought in by the Alberta government] mirror similar policies in New Brunswick and Saskatchewan."

Day 6 wishes to clarify that the current New Brunswick government has reversed the policy restricting youth who wish to change their names and/or identifying pronouns in school and no longer has similar policies to Alberta or Saskatchewan.