The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/23 at 17:00 EST

Episode Date: January 23, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/23 at 17:00 EST

Hi, I'm Josh Block, host of Uncover, Escaping Nexium from CBC Podcasts. I pull back the curtain on the secretive self-help group that experts call a cult and follow one woman's harrowing journey to get out. The podcast was featured in Rolling Stone Magazine and named one of the best podcasts of 2018 in the Atlantic. Listen to Uncover, Escaping Nexium on CBC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts. on CBC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Tom Harrington. Donald Trump is once again taking shots at Canada.

The president today repeated his complaints about what he describes as unfair trade between Canada and the US. As Tom Perry reports, it came as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with his liberal caucus to discuss how this country will respond. Rather than restrict the goods coming from Canada, the US should be working even more with Canada.

Justin Trudeau says his government will keep trying to persuade the new US administration not to impose tariffs on Canada, but if it does, he says, Canada will retaliate. Whether that's getting through to Donald Trump is unclear. Canada has been very tough to deal with over the years. The US president appeared via video at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland. Trump rehashed his usual complaints and once again claimed the US doesn't need Canadian goods while musing menacingly about Canada becoming a state. Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Jolie says she's spoken by phone to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and will be in Washington next week to meet him to try

once again to make Canada's case. Tom Perry, CBC News, Ottawa. We are here welcoming the news that the Supreme Court of Canada, the highest court in the country, has decided to grant leave to our constitutional challenge of Bill 21. Stephen Brown of the National Council of Muslims is part of a charter challenge to Quebec's secularism law. Bill 21 bans some civil servants, such as teachers and police officers, from wearing religious symbols at work. Those items include the Muslim hijab, the Jewish kippah and the Sikh turban. You can't go after the rights of some Canadians without going after the rights of all Canadians. Quebec Premier François Lagault

vowed to fight to the end to defend Quebec's values and who Quebecers are. The province preemptively used the notwithstanding clause when the law was enacted back in 2019. The deadline for candidates to submit their names in the Liberal leadership race has just expired, but the field of people who want to replace Justin Trudeau have already been taking shape. Marina Montstakelberg has more on the frontrunners. I have just left the party office where I deposited my papers to be an official candidate. Leaving Liberal headquarters in Ottawa, leadership hopeful Karina Gould says the government she was house leader of

didn't do enough to deal with the cost of living. I know that young people in general feel disenfranchised. They're worried about the future. And I'm here to say to all young Canadians, I get it. Former Finance Minister Krista Freeland spoke briefly before a meeting of Liberal MPs. We can never again be in a position where the leader is the only person who decides who the leader is. Former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney has a new ad out. When the markets crashed in 08, I worked with a Conservative Prime Minister to protect Canadian homes.

I got it done. Liberals choose a new leader March 9th. Marina von Stackelberg, CBC News, Ottawa. A former Catholic priest has pleaded guilty to six counts of indecent assault against children in Nunavut. The incidents happened between 1978 and 1982 when Eric de Jager ran a church in the community of Igloolik. He was previously convicted of 32 counts of child sexual abuse and sentenced to 19 years in prison. DeJagher

was released on parole in 2022. A British man who stabbed three girls to death at a Taylor Swift themed dance class has been sentenced to more than 52 years in prison. Justice Julian Goose says Axel Rudekibana wanted to carry out the mass murder of innocent happy young girls. His culpability for this extreme level of violence is equivalent in its seriousness to terrorist murders whatever his purpose. What he did on the 29th of July last year has caused such shock and revulsion to the whole nation that it must be viewed as being at the very extreme level of crime. The 18 year of July last year has caused such shock and revulsion to the whole nation that it must be viewed as being at the very extreme level of crime. The 18 year old was also charged with producing the deadly poison ricin and

possessing an al-qaeda training manual. The UK government has announced a public inquiry into how the system failed to stop the killer. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tom Harrington. Thanks for listening.