TORONTO — More than 15 years after it went off the air, “Project Runway Canada” is returning to a country re-examining its own cultural fabric.

For judge and designer Spencer Badu, the timing feels tailor-made. He hopes the show, premiering Friday on Crave, will shine a light on Canadian designers at a time when they’re being squeezed by tariffs and trade tensions with the United States.

“In a lot of ways, fashion in Canada doesn’t really get the airtime that it deserves,” says Badu, a Toronto native whose eponymous label specializes in genderless streetwear.

“Everyone wears clothes, but we’re seeing everything from everywhere else — things from Milan, from New York, from Paris. We’re not able to see the talent in our backyard.”

Badu says he’s noticed a “big difference” in customer beh

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