Struggling Canadians face another rate hike; Saudi Arabia golf merger raises questions of money and morals; and remembering a barrier-breaking all-Black baseball team
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The Bank of Canada raised its key interest rate again Wednesday. Matt Galloway talks to people who were already struggling and now find themselves in an even tighter bind. Plus, an economist dissects whether the bank’s approach will work to bring down inflation or disproportionately hurt lower-income Canadians.
Then, the PGA Tour will merge with Saudi Arabia’s LIV Golf, a breakaway league financed by the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund. Although it brings pro golfers back under one roof, the deal reignited debates about money in sport, and concerns about Saudi Arabia’s human rights record just five years after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
And the Chatham Coloured All-Stars were an all-Black baseball team from Ontario that won big back in 1934. We talk to the sons of two players, Donald Tabron and Blake Harding; and Heidi L.M. Jacobs, author of the new book 1934: The Chatham Coloured All-Stars’ Barrier-Breaking Year.