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Mar 2025
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The Trump bump on Canadian politics

Financial Times
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US President Donald Trump has handed carmakers a one-month reprieve on tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada, and we look at how a few billionaire elites struck a multibillion-dollar port deal within weeks. German borrowing costs surged by the most in 28 years on Wednesday, and the Liberal party in Canada will hold a leadership vote this weekend to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. 


Mentioned in this podcast:

Donald Trump hands carmakers one-month reprieve from tariffs

German borrowing costs soar by most since 1997 on ‘historic’ debt deal

Donald Trump revives Canada’s Liberals in electoral turnaround

The billionaire elite who answered Donald Trump’s call on Panama Canal 


The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian, Ethan Plotkin, Lulu Smyth, and Marc Filippino. Additional help from Breen Turner, Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Joseph Salcedo. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music.


Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com


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