The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/16 at 13:00 EST

Episode Date: January 16, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/16 at 13:00 EST

My name is Ashley and I am the owner and founder of Four Generations Creations here in Kamloops, BC. The Canadian TikTok team has helped my business tremendously by giving me opportunities to create and share space with other Indigenous creators within Canada. From CBC News, the world is ours. I'm Tom Harrington. And then there's the jobs tax. Conservative leader Pierre Poliev is fine-. And then there's the jobs tax. Conservative leader Pierre Poliev is fine-tuning his attacks on the Liberals. Several candidates for the party leadership say they'd do away with the consumer tax on carbon. So the opposition

leader is adding a new slogan. Now 66% of investment gains will be taxed. This tax will cost 400,000 jobs. I will axe the Liberal jobs tax. Pauliev was repeatedly asked if he would be willing to put export tariffs on oil and gas heading to the U.S. It's been floated as a possible retaliation on the possible U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods. He did not answer the question. Former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney is expected to announce he is running for the leadership of the federal liberals. He will make the announcement later today in Edmonton, which Carney considers his hometown.

Janice McGregor has more. JANICE McGREGOR Launching a political bid. Well, that's all about storytelling. So yes, he's headed up a central bank in two G7 economies. And yes, he moves in powerful circles, lives in a posh Ottawa neighborhood now, but he was born in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories. His dad once ran unsuccessfully for the Liberals in Edmonton in Pierre Trudeau's day. He grew up in the city's hockey rinks. Still apparently cheers for the Oilers. So in the days leading up to officially putting on the Liberal jersey, there he is lacing up his hockey skates

on Instagram, checking out the ice conditions on the Rideau Canal last weekend. But if Carney was hoping to run in the only Edmonton seat currently held by a liberal, well that gets awkward because Randy Boissoneau was out on social media yesterday announcing he intends to run again and Boissoneau's endorsing Christopher Freeland. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. The Israeli cabinet is expected to vote on the Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal tomorrow. Last-minute hurdles caused a day of delay in the implementation of the agreement.

Outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken remains confident the ceasefire will come into force as planned. Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State for State Affairs We've worked to broker a deal that would bring hostages home, that would stop the fighting, that would surge humanitarian aid to people who so desperately need it, that would create the space to conclude a permanent ceasefire. We now have that and we expect implementation of the agreement to begin on Sunday. Earlier, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Hamas was not honoring certain elements

of the deal. Hamas officials denied those claims and said the group was fully committed to the agreement. The Cuban government has released from jail prominent dissident José Daniel Ferrer. He is one of as many as 500 people expected to be freed from Cuba's prisons in the coming days. Their release was negotiated by the Biden administration with the help of the Vatican. In return, Washington announced it would lift its designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism. One of India's biggest Bollywood celebrities has survived a violent stabbing attack. Saif Ali Khan was injured in a fight with an intruder who broke into his home overnight.

Salima Shivji has the details. He's out of danger now and recovering in an ICU bed in hospital. But Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan had a big scare after he was stabbed repeatedly by an intruder who managed to get into his home in a ritzy area of Mumbai at around two in the morning. Saif Ali Khan is from a very prominent celebrity family. He and his wife's superstar, Kareena Kapoor, are considered Bollywood royalty. The knife used to attack him was lodged in Khan's spine, and he needed to undergo surgery to have it removed and to repair leaking spinal fluid.

The actor had six stab wounds with two deep ones on his neck and arm. The doctor treating him confirmed. Mumbai police are investigating and believe this was a botched burglary attempt. Police reportedly have some 20 teams looking into the incident, trying to track down the suspect. Salima Shivdi, CBC News, Delhi. Canadian Food Inspection Agency is recalling a chocolate bar produced by the Swiss company Milka. It says the treat, called bubbly alpine milk, contains hazelnut, which is not declared on the label. Hazelnut can cause an allergic reaction in some people.

The bars were distributed in stores across the country and were also sold on Amazon. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tom Harrington. Thanks for listening.