The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/22 at 09:00 EST

Episode Date: January 22, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/22 at 09:00 EST

I am going to tell you a story that a powerful state doesn't want you to know about tens of thousands who have disappeared. Once they get into the hands of the military, they will be tortured brutally. It's a story so dangerous to tell that for some it's meant ending up on a kill list. She was seen as a dangerous political actor and a threat to Pakistan security, but she was a local hero. The Kill List, a six-part investigative podcast, available now. and respect to Pakistan's security, but's the world is our. I'm Joe Cummings. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the premiers have scheduled another strategy session today to discuss Donald Trump's ongoing

tariff threats. This has once again, the U.S. president is justifying the threats by claiming there are major security issues at the Canadian border. Canada, very much so. They've allowed millions and millions of people to come into our country that shouldn't be here. They could have stopped them, and they didn't. And they've killed 300,000 people last year, my opinion, have been destroyed by drugs, by fentanyl.

The fentanyl coming through Canada is massive. The fentanyl coming through Mexico is massive. And people are getting killed and families are being destroyed. That's Trump speaking last night in Washington. His claims, however, conflict with the latest data from American border officials.

U.S. Customs says over a one-year period, starting in the fall of 2023, it seized more than 10,000 kilograms of fentanyl at various American border points. But only 20 kilograms were discovered coming in from Canada. Radio Canada has learned Amazon is leaving Quebec. Several warehouses, including ones in Laval and Montreal, will close their doors within a matter of two months. Amazon employs more than 1,800 people across the province, and recently, 250 employees in Laval unionized, something Amazon fought against. But the company tells

Radio Canada that the closure of those seven warehouses has nothing to do with the union. It's been two years now since the federal government announced it would be seizing the assets of sanctioned Russian officials and handing the money over to Ukraine. But to date, it hasn't happened. Zach Dabinski reports. 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. A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit Prince Harry filed against a British tabloid. Harry sued the publisher of the Sun newspaper claiming it used illegal tactics to gather information on him and his family. Harry and a former British MP are the last of a group of people who had filed similar suits. Crystal Gamansing has more now from London.

News UK is finally held to account. Lawyer David Sherborne reading a statement on behalf of Prince Harry and Tom Watson. The Duke of Sussex was not present at the High Court in London today, but the settlement in the civil case is described as a monumental victory. I'm glad they've apologized. Watson, a former Labour MP, called the unlawful gathering techniques used by newsgroup newspapers as industrial in scale. Prince Harry, his bravery and astonishing courage have brought accountability to a part of the media world that thought it was untouchable.

Newsgroup newspapers has paid out more than a billion pounds in roughly a thousand other cases alleging unlawful gathering techniques including phone hacking, surveillance and misuse of private information. A figure has not been shared in this settlement. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, London. And that is World This Hour. For news anytime go to our website cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.