Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Journalist Sara Mojtehedzadeh joins the show to discuss her recent ‘Globe and Mail’ investigation into the issues facing Canadian truckers. Mojtehedzadeh found that some truck drivers are falsely categorized as self-employed, with companies treating them like contractors when they aren’t, just to save money. She reports that drivers are also often not paid for time spent waiting at borders and struggle to collect money they’re owed from the companies they work for due to government inaction.

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