The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/22 at 14:00 EST

Episode Date: January 22, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/22 at 14:00 EST

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That means more than 1,700 employees will be out of work. Natham Sabaheddin worked as a supervisor. What are we going to do now? In 2025, it's hard to find one stable job. The move affects the facility in Laval, Amazon's only unionized warehouse in the country. Workers there said they were dissatisfied with low wages and inadequate health and safety measures. Amazon says the decision is tied to cost savings and not issues with the union. The company will return to using small local businesses to deliver its packages in the province.

Amazon opened its first facility in Quebec just five years ago. Nisha Patel, CBC News, Toronto. The Prime Minister held a virtual meeting with the country's premiers today. They discussed strategies if President Donald Trump carries through on his latest threat of imposing 25 percent tariffs on Canadian goods on February 1st. There appears to be a growing consensus among First Ministers to support a federal plan to retaliate, although Ontario Premier Doug Ford pointed out, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is still trying to protect her province's oil and gas exports.

Country comes first, you know, over anything and you can't throw, you know, a tool away from the toolbox. My, you know, as I said to the premiers, you can't bring a knife to a gunfight. The premiers also discussed bringing down trade barriers between provinces in light of the tariff threat. Harjit Sajjan is the latest Liberal Cabinet Minister to say he will not run for re-election. In his announcement, he says he was proud of his time in government. But Sajjan also warned the increasingly toxic and polarized nature of politics takes a toll on politicians and their families. He has endorsed Mark Carney to succeed Justin Trudeau as party leader. Britain says it's been monitoring a Russian ship that passed through British waters

this week. Defence Minister John Healey says it's another example of growing Russian aggression. says it's another example of growing Russian aggression. Let me be clear. This is a Russian spy ship used for gathering intelligence and mapping the UK's critical underwater infrastructure. Mr. Speaker, this is the second time that Yandah has entered our waters in recent months. In November, the ship was detected loitering over UK critical undersea infrastructure. Healy says maritime patrol ships, surveillance planes and a submarine were deployed to track the Russian vessel. It has now left British waters.

There is growing concern among NATO allies after an undersea cable between Estonia and Finland was cut in December. A Russian ship is suspected. At least 12 people have died after a major winter storm slammed southern parts of the United States. The blizzard brought record-breaking snow, ice and dangerous conditions to millions of people who aren't used to it. Nick Harper has more. On the coast it's pretty rare. It's a bit of a shock. We don't see that every year down here. Extreme weather tracker Hal Needham lives in Texas and is more used to scorching sunshine. On average about once a decade that you would get measurable snow here where you could actually go out and play in it.

He's one of more than 35 million people from Texas through Georgia to Florida who've been hit by the deadly deep freeze. New Orleans city official Joseph Thret is also struggling, the city seeing snow for the first time in 15 years. We're not a snow city so we don't have plows. In a region that rarely sees snowfall it's caused chaos on the roads and led to the cancellation of more than 2,000 flights. Houston Mayor John Whitmire. This is a serious Arctic blast. It's dangerous. It's life-threatening. Schools remain closed in many of the states as the once-in-a-generation winter storm blankets the South. Nick Harper for CBC News, Washington. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tom Harrington. Thanks for listening.