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

Episode Date: January 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/23 at 23:00 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. Donald Trump is again taking aim at Canada and some of our biggest economic sectors.

Telling the World Economic Forum Thursday, the United States does not need Canadian products, including oil and gas. And that's raising concern from a former Alberta Premier. Michelle Bale-Fontaine has more from Edmonton. U.S. President Donald Trump told the World Economic Forum that Canada has been very tough to deal with over the years. He said the U.S. has a large trade deficit with Canada and that has to end.

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. Former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney told CBC News Network that Canada supplies one-fifth of America's daily oil supply. They're going to have to do a lot of drilling to replace the four million barrels a day that comes from Canada if they put that tariff on. So I don't think it's in either side's interest to do that.

Premier Danielle Smith is traveling from Washington today. Her press secretary says her message has not changed. He says she plans to stay calm and diplomatic while carrying out Alberta and Canada's strategy. Michelle Belfontaine, CBC News, Edmonton. A new RBC report says Canadians are still struggling financially despite inflation returning to the Bank of Canada's 2% target. About half the roughly 1,500 Canadians polled say they are spending all of their income on essentials.

About 47% say they had to dip into emergency funds or retirement savings. Exhausted firefighters battling deadly wildfires in and around Los Angeles for weeks are now grappling with more of them. The Hughes Fire is churning through rugged mountains north of the city, while the Sepulveda Fire is roaring near Bel Air. Steve Futterman reports. Throughout the day, fire crews here have been making progress on the largest of these new fires, the Hughes Fire. It's now 24% contained and homes are no longer in imminent danger.

Another fire that had officials extremely concerned, the Sepulveda Fire, near the exclusive residential area of Bel Air, is essentially out. Firefighters quickly jumped on that fire, preventing it from threatening hundreds of multi-million dollar homes. The red flag alert issued by the National Weather Service remains in effect until Friday. Also on Friday, President Trump is set to come here to see some of the damage and meet with officials. That could be a bit tricky. Trump has blamed California Governor Gavin Newsom's water policies as one of the main causes of the fires. And there could be a bit of good news this

weekend. There is some rain in the forecast. Steve Futterman for CBC News, Los Angeles. Many Canadians are all too familiar with spending months waiting for surgery. New data shows how patients can benefit by spending that time getting stronger and healthier before their operation. It's called prehab, and the number of Canadian hospitals offering it is growing. Mike Crawley explains. Bend the knees a bit, yeah. Hips back.

There you go. A kinesiologist works Paul Kennedy through an exercise with a resistance band. The 73-year-old is due for open heart surgery next month in Toronto. He began this exercise regime six months ago as part of the hospital's prehab program. My endurance is infinitely better than it was. The idea that patients do better with surgery when they're stronger and healthier makes intuitive sense. Now a Canadian study is putting some hard figures on the benefits of prehab. So having surgery is stressful on your body.

Dr. Dan McKisick is an anesthesiologist and scientist at the Ottawa Hospital. McKisick led research that's newly published in the medical journal BMJ. Looking at more than 15,000 surgical patients, it found that prehab programs brought a 40 to 50 percent reduction in surgical complications and on average one fewer day spent recovering in hospital. Mike Crowley, CBC News, Toronto. Health Canada is promising to distribute more rabies vaccine by the end of the month after receiving a new supply. Demand has risen following the death of an Ontario child

who came in contact with a bat last fall. That is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles.