Beyond Borders Scotland Podcast
Sep 16, 2026 · 54 min · 9 segments
After another crazy year in politics cultural broadcaster Kirsty Lang conducts a light-hearted news review of the issues making the headlines - and which are likely to do so in the coming months, from…
And so I thought I'd start with a story that's both in the news this weekend, but has been in the news for the past year.
Let's start with the renaming by Donald Trump.
How do you feel about that?
I think I mentioned this yesterday, someone who grew up on the East Coast of Canada, whether it's all of it's Scottish and Irish, strong Catholic roots, that good things come out of bad.
And the good thing which has come out of the bad of having President Trump as the boy next door is that it has given rise, and I'm sure you've seen this, rise in...
There's always a joke in Canada about what does it mean to be Canadian? How do you define Canadian identity? And now we have found it in opposition.
We want to be, we've always said we're everything America is not, even though we have the same telephone code, which is plus one.
And President Trump has really, really injected a lot of pride in Canada, even, dare I say it, defiance.
And without President Trump, that all, you know, that old boring banker Mark Carney would never have become the exciting politician that he has become.
So, but he does have a penchant for saying, you know, as a property, old property, give me that, I want that, and renaming things.
You'll remember, we were talking this morning, he, first of all, he renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.
So he has renamed, in a fit of pique, he has... named Lake Ontario as Lake America.
And the interesting thing is, is that the name Ontario, and I'm sure some of you have looked, it's centuries old because it comes from the indigenous people of the area.
And in
So someone should say to President Trump, actually, Ontario is a more Trumpian word.
And in that way, and Dara knows about this more than I do, that you can't really tell.
We've got to work really hard to know what's real and not real on social media these days.
But there was a story that Canada has now renamed Lake Ontario as the Lake of Hormuz.
And so I thought I'd start with a story that's both in the news this weekend, but has been in the news for the past year.
Let's start with the renaming by Donald Trump.
How do you feel about that?
I think I mentioned this yesterday, someone who grew up on the East Coast of Canada, whether it's all of it's Scottish and Irish, strong Catholic roots, that good things come out of bad.
And the good thing which has come out of the bad of having President Trump as the boy next door is that it has given rise, and I'm sure you've seen this, rise in...
There's always a joke in Canada about what does it mean to be Canadian? How do you define Canadian identity? And now we have found it in opposition.
We want to be, we've always said we're everything America is not, even though we have the same telephone code, which is plus one.
And President Trump has really, really injected a lot of pride in Canada, even, dare I say it, defiance.
And without President Trump, that all, you know, that old boring banker Mark Carney would never have become the exciting politician that he has become.
So, but he does have a penchant for saying, you know, as a property, old property, give me that, I want that, and renaming things.
You'll remember, we were talking this morning, he, first of all, he renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.
So he has renamed, in a fit of pique, he has... named Lake Ontario as Lake America.
And the interesting thing is, is that the name Ontario, and I'm sure some of you have looked, it's centuries old because it comes from the indigenous people of the area.
And in
So someone should say to President Trump, actually, Ontario is a more Trumpian word.
And in that way, and Dara knows about this more than I do, that you can't really tell.
We've got to work really hard to know what's real and not real on social media these days.
But there was a story that Canada has now renamed Lake Ontario as the Lake of Hormuz.
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