The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/20 at 06:00 EST

Episode Date: January 20, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/20 at 06:00 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. With the final inaugural preparations underway across the capital, Donald Trump will be sworn in today as the 47th President of the United States. Katie Simpson reports. Ladies and gentlemen, President Donald J. Trump. The moment Donald Trump supporters have so desperately wanted has finally arrived.

On the eve of his return to power, the president-elect doubled down on his key campaign promises, spelling out his agenda at a victory rally. I will act with historic speed and strength and fix every single crisis facing our country. We have to do it. We're not going to have a country like this. At the top of the list, Trump's mass deportation plans. Details expected to be made public through a series of executive orders. Other election pledges are to be addressed as well in additional executive orders.

With Canada on edge about possible new tariffs. Together we're going to cut your taxes, end inflation, slash your prices, getting them back down, raise your wages, and bring thousands of factories back to the USA. Katie Simpson, CBC News, Washington. We'll have live coverage of the Trump inauguration on CBC Radio 1. It gets underway at 11 o'clock Eastern. Incidentally, two federal cabinet ministers are in Washington for the inaugural festivities, industry minister Francois Philippe Champagne and trade minister Mary Ingres.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the rest of his cabinet will be watching from a retreat in Quebec, waiting for details on if or when Trump will impose his long-threatened tariffs. And Canada isn't the only country nervously watching the arrival of the new Trump administration. Ukraine also has concerns. What with Trump's plan for US support for the Ukrainian war efforts still far from clear. Briar Stewart has more now from Kyiv. Trump has never laid out a vision for peace in Ukraine and has just repeatedly made seemingly unrealistic claims about ending the conflict in a day. The US is Ukraine's

biggest military backer. Trump has criticized that and has even called Volodymyr Zelensky the world's greatest salesman for being able to secure tens of billions of dollars in US military aid. I think that he will try to put an end to the war but I don't think that he has enough leverage to find compromises which would be acceptable to both parties. Mikola Kapitonenko is an associate professor in international relations at the National University in Kyiv. Trump may end up continuing Biden's strategy by providing Ukraine with limited amounts of assistance in exchange... Trump's special envoy is expected to visit Kyiv in the coming weeks,

and Trump says he'll soon be setting up a meeting with Russia's President Vladimir Putin. Briar Stewart, CBC News, Kiev. A woman in yellow knife is in the middle of a perplexing bureaucratic back and forth with the province of Ontario. She's being asked by the province to repay a child care bursary she received nearly 30 years ago when she was studying to be a nurse. bursary she received nearly 30 years ago when she was studying to be a nurse. Ethel Moussa has the story.

It was $1,245, which 30 years ago was a lot of money. Jennifer Craft says a child care bursary from Ontario's Ministry of Colleges and Universities was critical in helping her attend college as a single mother with a 2.5 year old daughter. I don't think I could have been in nursing school without that option. Kraft is now a grandmother, but she was recently contacted by a creditor asking for that bursary money back because it says she failed to provide daycare receipts decades ago. Well, I don't even keep tax documents longer than eight years. How am I going to find 30 yearold child care bursary receipts?

Kraf says she submitted the original receipts and her daughter's daycare no longer exists, leading her to wonder what's the statute of limitations. In an email statement, the ministry says there is no limitation period when it comes to the collection of debts owed to the Crown. Ivelmouz, CBC News, Toronto. And that is the World This Hour. For news anytime, go to our website cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.