{"id":58660,"date":"2025-08-10T07:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T07:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/58660\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T07:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T07:40:09","slug":"thepodcast-talking-trump-trade-transportation-security-and-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/58660\/","title":{"rendered":"thePodcast: Talking Trump, trade, transportation, security and soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the week of Aug. 10, 2025: <\/p>\n<p>What a time to turn 20 for the 2005-founded Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington University.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s trade war with Canada is testing relationships on both sides of the longest, undefended border on the planet. At a time when Canada and the United States need to work together.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Laurie Trautman is the director of the Border Policy Research Institute and co-chairs the border issues working group with the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trautman joins host Bob Mackin from Bellingham, Wash. on this edition of thePodcast, to talk Trump, trade, transportation, security and soccer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver and Seattle are FIFA World Cup co-hosts next year: Will they be ready to welcome the world?<\/p>\n<p>As usual, Pacific Rim and Pacific Northwest headlines and the Virtual Nanaimo Bar.<\/p>\n<p>CLICK BELOW to listen. Or go to <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/News--Politics-Podcasts\/theBreakernews-Podcast-p1065476\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/thebreaker-news-podcast\/id1362852547?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Apple Podcasts or <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2AEb4uLEXpMZTdHuEzxysr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spotify.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have you missed an edition of theBreaker.news Podcast?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thebreaker.news\/tag\/podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Go to the archive.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">NEW: Subscribe to\u00a0theBreaker.news on Substack. <a href=\"https:\/\/bobmackin.substack.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Find out how: Click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cropped-breaker-news-socialmedia-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"theBreaker.news Podcast\" title=\"theBreaker.news Podcast\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttheBreaker.news Podcast\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>thePodcast: Talking Trump, trade, transportation, security and soccer<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPlay Episode<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPause Episode<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thebreaker.news\/wp-content\/plugins\/seriously-simple-podcasting\/assets\/css\/images\/player\/images\/icon-loader.svg\" alt=\"Loading\" class=\"ssp-loader hide\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMute\/Unmute Episode<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRewind 10 Seconds<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1x<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFast Forward 30 seconds<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00:00<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\/<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00:30:19\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the week of Aug. 10, 2025: What a time to turn 20 for the 2005-founded Border Policy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-58660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}