The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/23 at 22:00 EST

Episode Date: January 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/23 at 22:00 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. U.S. President Donald Trump has taken his threats against Canada to an international

audience. In a speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Trump once again claimed that Canada trades unfairly with the U.S. Paul Hunter reports from Washington. One thing we're going to be demanding is we're going to be demanding respect from other nations, Canada. On the global stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, albeit among a litany of other comments.

Canada has been very tough to deal with over the years. Donald Trump's reiteration of his threats against Canada brought gasps from those in the crowd. He vastly overstated the U.S. trade deficit with Canada, but he underlined, on trade, if Canada doesn't do his bidding, his bottom line seems to be the U.S. could simply stop buying. We don't need them to make our cars and they make a lot of them. We don't need their lumber because we have our own forests, etc., etc.

We don't need their oil and gas. We have our, we have more than anybody. Appearing by video link, Trump took another shot at Canada and all NATO countries, calling on them to massively expand their targeted spending on defense. Paul Hunter, CBC News, Washington. And they're off. Candidates who wanted to become the next Liberal leader had to file their paperwork by this

afternoon. Now, they have 45 days to win over Liberals and become the next Prime Minister. Rafi Boudjah-Kanyean with more. In the middle of a snow-covered downtown Ottawa street, Karina Gould, the Liberal's former house leader, makes it official. I deposited my papers to be an official candidate. The 37-year-old joins a crowded field, including former back of Canada Governor Mark Carney and former finance minister Christia Freeland, but Gould says she has the grassroots helping

her out. When it comes to endorsements by caucus though, they're lining up by the dozens behind Freeland and Cardi. But she has also leaned in on her experience as Finance Minister. She insists she is the one to take on US President Donald Trump. The liberal leadership race has attracted multiple other contenders, including current MPs Jaime Batiste and Chandra Arya, along with former members of parliament Frank Bayless and Ruby Dalla, and anti-abortion businessman Michael Clarke. Whoever wins this race in early March will likely be headed off to a general election months, if not weeks, later.

Rafi Boudjikani on 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 Jaeger ran a church in the community of Igluwik. He was previously convicted of 32 counts of child sexual abuse and sentenced to 19 years in prison. De Jaeger was released on parole in 2022. Saskatchewan's government has reignited discussions about school change rooms and who can go in them. It announced Thursday all school divisions must release their individual policies by

the end of June. It follows a controversy that erupted during last fall's provincial election when Sask Party leader Scott Moe said his first order of business if re-elected would be to ban what he calls biological boys from using the same changing rooms as biological girls. The proposal got put on the back burner until now. Everett Hindley is Saskatchewan's education minister. School divisions have indicated to me that they feel that it's up to their locally elected school boards.

I've been assured by the school divisions and by the SSBA that, you know, they will be responsive and reactive to questions, concerns, inquiries that are raised by individuals living within their school division. The ministry says most schools in the 27 divisions have already got change room policies in place. Meanwhile, the NDP opposition is criticizing the government, saying health care and the cost of living are more pressing issues than change rooms. Ireland and parts of the UK are bracing for hurricane-force winds as one of the most intense storms in decades spirals in from the Atlantic.

Irish forecasters expecting wind gusts of 161 kmph to hit the coast early Friday morning. That is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles.