The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/20 at 11:00 EST

Episode Date: January 20, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/20 at 11:00 EST

There is no shortage of scam artists and true crime. But I'm guessing you've never heard of one quite like Caitlin Braun. For over two years, Caitlin Braun conned more than 50 birth workers into thinking that she was pregnant. I'm Kathleen Goldtar, and this week on Crime Story, I sit down with Sarah Trelevin, the host of the con, Caitlin's baby. Find Crime Story wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, it's the world this hour.

I'm Joe Cummings. It appears Donald Trump will stop short of imposing new trade tariffs on his first day back in the White House. Administration sources are saying that instead of immediate tariff action, Trump will direct a series of investigations into trade deficits and unfair trade practices. Trump has threatened in recent weeks to impose steep tariffs on countries like Canada immediately after being sworn into office. So while trade initiatives now appear to be on hold, we're being told to watch for a long

list of other executive orders to be signed by the end of the day. Ellen Morrow reports. We know a big area is going to be immigration that has long been the signature issue of Donald Trump. This reporting says Trump will declare an emergency along the US-Mexico border, that he will send additional armed troops to the southern border, and that he'll move to take away birthright citizenship for children whose parents don't have legal immigration in the US. Now that's in the

Constitution, birthright citizenship. It would require a complicated legislative process to change it. Another area where we're expecting to see action is that we've repeatedly heard Donald Trump attack both transgender rights and diversity, equity and inclusion policies. This reporting says he will sign an order saying that the US federal government will only recognize two genders going forward and that he will end what he calls radical and wasteful a diversity equity and inclusion policies across the federal government. Ellen Morrow, CBC News, Washington. Even amid today's reports

that the Trump administration isn't planning any immediate trade action against Canada, Ontario premier Doug Ford has no intention of standing down. And I've sent a direction to the LCBO, these tariffs come to clear off every bit of US alcohol off the shelves. Let's start promoting more Ontario made wines and the vodkas and spirits. Ford says US states like Kentucky, which make bourbon, will feel the effect of being kept out of Ontario. By the way, we're broadcasting live from the Trump inauguration on CBC Radio 1. Our coverage began earlier this hour and will continue straight through Trump's swearing-in

ceremony. Meanwhile, Joe Biden is using his final hours as president to issue a number of high-profile pardons. They all appear to be preemptive pardons aimed at preventing charges from being laid under the next administration. At the top of the list is Dr. Anthony Fauci, who refused to back Trump's unfounded claims during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Liz Cheney, who was part of the House Committee that investigated the January 6th insurrection. In other news, a court in India today has sentenced a man to life in prison for last

summer's rape and murder of a trainee doctor. Salima Shivji has more. The chants for justice have been consistent in the months following the rape and murder of a trainee doctor while she was on duty at a Kolkata hospital. As the accused Sanjay Roy was declared guilty on Saturday, the victim's parents had a request. We want him hanged. We want capital punishment, the father of the victim told reporters. But today, the grieving family did not get the maximum sentence that they were hoping for.

The judge said while heinous, the crime was not the rarest of the rare and so not a case that deserves death by hanging in India. The sentence came down after Roy's pleas to the court that he's innocent and being framed. There is a sense among many in Kolkata that there were more people involved in the crime and that police didn't investigate fully, especially among the 31-year-old victim's family in France. Salima Shivji, CBC News, Delhi. New Brunswick's new Liberal government has reopened an investigation into a mystery brain disease that seems to mostly affect people in the Acadian Peninsula and Moncton areas.

The number of people affected by what the province is calling neurological syndrome has grown from fewer to 50 in 2020 to about 400 today. Patients have reported such symptoms as memory loss, balance issues, and bursts of intense pain. And that is The World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings.