The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/21 at 11:00 EST

Episode Date: January 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/21 at 11:00 EST

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I'm Joe Cummings. First to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the ongoing tariff threats by US President Donald Trump. Donald Trump is, as always, a skilled negotiator and will do what he can to keep his negotiating partners a little bit off balance. That's Trudeau responding to Trump's claim last night that he is considering tariff action against Canada starting on February 1st. Trudeau says it's, or Trump rather, says it's all part of ushering in, quote, a golden age

of America. But Trudeau says that can't happen without Canada's help. If the United States is going to see an increase in jobs, manufacturing, and economic growth, they're going to require more energy, more inputs, everything from lumber and concrete to steel and aluminum to critical minerals that are the essential ingredients in the economy of the future. And Canada has all that in an extraordinarily reliable and close partner. Aaron Ross Trudeau says Canada's response at this point includes a detailed list of proposed counter

tariffs and a commitment to continue lobbying U.S. officials about how Americans will be affected by any Trump tariffs. Still with Donald Trump included in the close to 200 executive orders he signed yesterday is a blanket pardon for all those charged with crimes in the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol. Trump has pardoned, commuted, or is dismissing the cases of more than 1,500 people charged or convicted in the riots. That includes the release of those found guilty of violent acts against police.

Canada's inflation rate continues to fall. It dipped down to 1.8% last month from 1.9 in November. Statistics Canada says the biggest factor in the decline was the federal government's temporary GST break. Without it, Statscan says the inflation rate would have increased by close to half a percentage point. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the murder of three young girls last summer must lead to systemic change.

The girls, all under the age of 10, were killed in a knife attack on a dance class. And Starmor has ordered a public inquiry. – Britain now faces a new threat. Terrorism has changed. We also see acts of extreme violence perpetrated by loners, misfits, young men in their bedroom, accessing all manner of material online, desperate for notoriety. Starmor says authorities need to explain how the 18-year-old attacker was referred to the government's anti-radicalization program three times, with no action being taken.

The attacker has pleaded guilty to the killings and will be sentenced later this week. A horrific story today from northern Turkey. At least 66 people have been killed in a fire at a ski resort. Officials say at least two of the victims died trying to escape the flames by jumping from the burning building. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. The Ontario-based company NordSpace is looking at the south coast of Newfoundland as a potential location to launch rockets and research satellites.

Heather Gillis explains. Municipalities get applications to build homes and businesses all the time, but one for a spaceport outside St. Lawrence, a town of 1,200 people on Newfoundland's South Coast came as a surprise Mayor Kevin Pittman has questions. What's the purpose? Why Newfoundland? Nord space wants to launch rockets with tiny satellites from the outskirts of town Satellites to be used for observing Earth and communication at 16 meters The Rockets are nearly eight times smaller than SpaceX ones. Rahul Goyal is the CEO. They're not designed to go tremendously

far. About a thousand kilometers above Earth at most in low Earth orbit. If they can get off the ground, NordSpace claims it would be the first commercial spaceport in Canada. We've never ever actually launched anything to space from Canadian soil. If approved the company expects to start commercial launches in two to three years time. Heather Ullis, CBC News, St. John's. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.