The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/14 at 12:00 EST

Episode Date: January 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/14 at 12:00 EST

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Find and follow FromBurner wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. Former B.C. Premier Christy Clark says she will not run for the leadership of the Federal Liberal Party. After establishing a team to explore a leadership bid, Clark had been expected to launch a campaign. However, she says the shortened schedule to determine a replacement for Justin Trudeau doesn't allow her enough time to run a competitive race. Meanwhile, one prominent liberal that is expected to run is former Bank of Canada and Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, and he appeared last night on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. A wild hypothetical. Let's say the candidate wasn't part of the government.

Let's say the candidate did have a lot of economic experience. Let's say the candidate did have a lot of economic experience. Let's say the candidate did deal with crises. Let's say the candidate had a plan to deal with the challenges in the here and now. You sneaky! You're running as an outsider. I am an outsider. Sources have told Radio Canada that Carney will be formally launching his campaign on Thursday, and it's expected Christia Freeland will announce her bid at some point ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration, which is set for next Monday. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says as many as 500,000 Canadian jobs could be affected if

Donald Trump carries out his threat to impose tariffs on Canadian goods. These tariffs will affect every single person. Even if they don't think they're tariffiff in their sector, it's going to indirectly affect them. It's not going to be good. Ford's comments calm as the premiers prepare to meet tomorrow with Prime Minister Trudeau. Ford says he plans to ask the Prime Minister to establish a financial assistance program for workers impacted by any new Trump tariffs.

Still with Trump News, a newly released report is showing he would have been convicted of election interference had he lost the November presidential election. A report from U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith was released today. It accuses Trump of using threats and encouragement of violence in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election results. And Smith determines there was enough evidence for a conviction, but the case was dropped following Trump's November victory. Still in Washington.

These are the goals that I've worked to advance over a dozen trips to the region since October 7th. How many were brown children? Oh, thousands, thousands, thousands. How many were brown children? Oh, thousands, thousands, thousands. That is outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken being interrupted by a protester as he shares his parting views on the Middle East.

Blinken was interrupted more than once. His appearance comes as a proposed Gaza ceasefire agreement is now in the hands of both Israel and Hamas. The proposal calls for, among other things, the exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners. Strong winds are in the forecast today for Los Angeles County, which means emergency wildfire officials are being forced to adjust how their crews are being deployed. Steve Futterman has more.

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They're on alert. They have put fire crews, they've put engine companies in particularly vulnerable situations. They say they're prepared, they have enough people, and they're just crossing their fingers. Right now, it's up to Mother Nature. It's generally felt if the winds gust up to 112 kilometers an hour, that's what they're expecting right now. They're pretty confident that if they get a bit of luck, they'll be okay. Steve Buttermman for CBC News, Los Angeles. A new report suggests Canada's health care system is falling behind leading international standards and is only outperforming the United States.

The C.D. Howe Institute ranks Canada ninth out of ten countries evaluated, with the top performers being the Netherlands and Britain. The analysis says Canada's quality of care is relatively high, but accessing that care is a challenge. Newfoundland and Labrador and Nunavut have the weakest results, while PEI, Quebec and Ontario perform the best. And that is The World This Hour.

I'm Joe Cummings.