The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/16 at 11:00 EST

Episode Date: January 16, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/16 at 11:00 EST

My name is Laurent Dagenet and I use TikTok to share my love for cooking with the rest of the world. It allowed me to build this global community. I get to meet the coolest people in the world and inspire people to get in the kitchen and cook. I can honestly say TikTok changed my life forever. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. One of the organizers of the Ottawa Trucker protest will soon learn if he's going to jail. But it won't be today.

Pat King has been convicted on five criminal charges related to the demonstrations that brought downtown Ottawa to a standstill in the winter of 2022. And the judge in the case is hearing sentencing submissions today. But the judge says he'll need more time to hand down a final sentence. Former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney is expected to enter the federal liberal leadership race today. An event is scheduled for Edmonton, which Carney considers his hometown. He was born in the Northwest Territories but grew up in Edmonton.

As for Christia Freeland, it's believed she will launch her leadership bid in the coming days. A draft list of potential Canadian countermeasures has been drawn up as the premiers and the federal government continue to formulate a response to Donald Trump's tariff threats. Kate McKenna reports. We have to send a message. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Canada must hit back hard if President-elect Donald Trump makes good on his tariff threat next week when he takes office. Officials are tight-lipped about what Canada's retaliation plan looks like, in part because it's not clear what Trump's actually going to do.

But sources tell CBC News that Canadian officials have drawn up a list of about $150 billion in U.S. manufactured products that could be hit with retaliatory tariffs. The CEC news that Canadian officials have drawn up a list of about $150 billion in US manufactured products that could be hit with retaliatory tariffs. Everything is on the table, but we've also been very, very clear that it has to be fair across the country. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told premiers during a meeting Canada is not looking to match tariffs dollar for dollar, but instead to start smaller and increase pressure over time. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith didn't sign on to the joint statement following the Premier's meeting,

writing on social media that she can't support any plan unless the federal government rules out using Alberta oil and gas as a bargaining chip in a trade war. Kate McKenna, CBC News, Ottawa. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a last-minute problem has come up, forcing the Israeli government to delay signing off on the Gaza ceasefire agreement. Sasha Petrusik has the details now from Jerusalem. Sasha Petrusik, NET. Even as the mediators were announcing that this deal was done, officials and the negotiators

were still in fact hammering out certain things. And it seems now that some of that wasn't hammered out completely. And it seems as though this morning that is delaying the government vote and the cabinet meeting vote, which has to happen before this ceasefire goes into effect. And Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is accusing Hamas of introducing new things or reneging on elements of the deal, which everybody assumed were done. Hamas has put out just a very short statement saying that it is committed to the ceasefire agreement as it was announced yesterday.

But of course, that leaves a lot of questions that are vague. Sasha Petrusik, CBC News, Jerusalem. Now to Washington, where outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden delivered his farewell address last night from the White House. Katie Simpson reports. Our fellow Americans. Sitting behind the resolute desk in the Oval Office, President Joe Biden used his final speech to the American people to issue a grave warning. After more than 50 years of public

service, he made the case that he's leaving the White House at a dangerous time for American democracy. Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy. While he did not mention the president elect by name. He was outlining his concerns about Donald Trump, the extremely wealthy members of his inner circle and whether they will respect the guardrails of American democracy, stressing his fears about fast moving developments in technology and how that

too is being used in the concentration of power. Biden leaves the white house a deeply unpopular president and on that basis it's likely many voters and his critics will dismiss his warnings in this moment. Katie Simpson, CBC News, Washington. And that is the World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.