The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/23 at 21:00 EST

Episode Date: January 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/23 at 21:00 EST

Every language is a note in the symphony of our heritage. Together, they create a harmony that cannot be silenced. Discover your voice on the new APTN Languages TV channel. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Mike Miles. CBC News has learned Ontario voters will soon be going to the polls more than a year ahead of the fixed date.

Two government sources confirm the call could come next Wednesday. Philip Lee Shanock reports. Just stay tuned we need a mandate from the people. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he needs a new mandate, a strong one to face the challenges ahead. Donald Trump wants to destroy our economy. We're gonna be investing billions and billions of dollars to protect the people. While he made no official announcement, Ford's progressive conservative candidates will be meeting in Toronto for a super caucus to discuss election strategy. John Malloy teaches political science at Wilfrid Laurier University.

That to me is a clear signal. It seems full steam ahead for Ontario to go to the polls probably end of February, early March. Ford has been ahead in the polls recently, so Malloy says it may be an ideal time to take advantage of his popularity. I think waiting till June of 2026 contains a lot of unknowns. But opposition leaders say with uncertainty in Ottawa, it's exactly the wrong time and that Ford already has a mandate. Philippe Chanok, CBC News, Toronto. Donald Trump is once again taking shots at Canada. The president today repeating complaints about what he describes as unfair trade

between Canada and the U.S. 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 U.S. should be working even more with Canada. Justin Trudeau says his government will keep trying to persuade the new U.S. 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 US 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. A U.S. federal court judge has temporarily blocked President Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship. That guarantees citizenship to anyone born on American soil.

Four states challenged the order as unconstitutional because it violates the 14th Amendment and Supreme Court case law. Trump signed the order on his first day in office in a slate of orders related to immigration. 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 chartered challenge to Quebec secularism law. Bill 21 banned some civil servants, such as teachers and police officers, from wearing

religious symbols at work, including 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 Francois Legault vowed to fight to the end to defect Quebec's values and who Quebecers are. The province preemptively used the Constitution's notwithstanding clause when the law was enacted in 2019. 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 Ruda Cabana 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-old was also charged with producing the deadly poison ricin and possessing an

al-Qaeda training manual. That is your World This Hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts. The World This Hour is updated, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts. The World This Hour is updated every hour, seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles. ...