The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/22 at 07:00 EST

Episode Date: January 22, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/22 at 07:00 EST

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From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. As part of the ongoing effort to answer Donald Trump's tariff threats, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the premiers have another strategy session scheduled for today. And while the first ministers continue to shape the Canadian response, B.C. Premier David Eby is saying the rest of the country has a role to play as well. Mira Bains reports. B.C. Premier David Eby says people should use their purchasing power to stand up for Canada.

We will not spend money in a country that wants to do economic harm to Canadians. U.S. President Donald Trump suggested Monday that 25 percent tariffs on Canadian goods could take effect as soon as February 1st. Eby told British Columbians to carefully consider where they're taking their vacations and what country they're taking their vacations and what country they're buying products from. Our decision not to purchase American alcohol would definitely send a message. It is one of the things that could be on the table to respond to these tariffs.

They are completely unjustified. Other ways B.C. could retaliate, E.B. says, is charging U.S. trucks to drive through Canada to get to Alaska or banning American companies from bidding on BC infrastructure projects. Carleton University Professor of Public Policy Ian Lee says Canada should be open to a deal. We will get squashed in any trade war because they are vastly more powerful. Mira Bains, CBC News, Vancouver. Canadian medical professionals are calling on the Canadian government and other G7

countries to step up their support for the World Health Organization. This after President Trump's executive order this week withdrawing the U.S. from the WHO. The Center for Global Health Research says the country that will be affected the most will be the United States itself. It says America will lose evolving health intelligence and access to global networks if there's another pandemic. Prince Harry has settled a lawsuit against two British tabloids owned by Rupert Murdoch. The suit against the publishers of The Sun and the now shuttered News of the World claims the publications used illegal methods in reporting on Harry's life. It also alleges that senior newspaper executives covered up the actions of their reporters.

Prince Harry is one of only two remaining claimants in the case that began with more than 1,300. The prince has been issued an apology and is expected to receive a substantial financial settlement. It's been two years now since the federal government announced it would be seizing the assets of sanctioned Russian officials and having that money handed over to Ukraine. In making the announcement at the time, Ottawa called it a first for a Western country.

But to date, it hasn't happened. Zach Dubezki has more. His $26 million American accounts will be used to compensate victims. In December 2022, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Jolie saying the government would become the first in the G7 to seize money from a sanctioned Russian and hand it over to Ukraine.

Jolie's first target, Russian Roman Abramovich, an oligarch and close ally of President Vladimir Putin. But two years later, there's been no progress. The millions of dollars still sits frozen in an account far from Kiev. Same story for a giant Russian-owned cargo plane sitting at Toronto's main airport. Trade lawyer John Buscarriol points out that Canada has an investment treaty with Russia that competes with its new asset seizure powers. You cannot expropriate property of a Russian investor unless you compensate them for it.

Canada has committed billions to Ukraine, but says it's not obliged to get this seizure done on any timeline. Zach Dubinsky, CBC News, Toronto. Much of eastern Canada is shivering through frigid temperatures and wind chill conditions from an arctic air mass that has drifted south this week. Environment Canada has issued extreme cold warnings for parts of northern Manitoba as well as most of Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick. Wind chill values have dropped as low as minus 30 in southern Ontario, including Toronto.

And northern Ontario is dealing today with conditions that feel like minus 45 to minus 50. And that is The World This Hour. For news anytime, go to our website cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.