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World Service,23 Aug 2026,54 mins
Trade "war" continues as Canada faces 50% tarrifs on a range of goods
WeekendAvailable for 29 days
US President Donald Trump has said Canada wants "the benefits of being a State, without being one", whilst Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney confirmed he would match Trump's tariffs "dollar-for-dollar". We hear from Ilya Gridneff in Toronto, Canada correspondent at the Financial Times, about how the situation soured. The editors of American newspaper 'Stars and Stripes' are under fire as the Department of Defence sacked its editor-in-chief over claims of "insubordination". We hear from the paper's former editor Robert Reid.. Also on the programme: Athens is cleaning its all-marble stadium for the first time in a more than a century. David Wallechinsky, co-founder and past president of the International Society of Olympic Historians, explains just how much of a mammoth task it really is.
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