Ralph Thomas, director of Ticket to Heaven, was committed to telling Canadian stories with an edge

You gotta love China these days. Canada, the U.K., South Korea and other nations are getting cozy with Chinese leadership as a hedge against an unpredictable Trump administration. It’s a dicey move. U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening retaliatory tariffs, citing Canada as a pressure-relief valve for Chinese overcapacity dribbling into the U.S. market. The Chinese Communist Party’s end game is more opaque. To find out more, I track down China-watcher and fellow Canadian journalist Cleo Paskal. She often reports from remote places in the world, revealing what happens when China...