The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/24 at 00:00 EST

Episode Date: January 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/24 at 00:00 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. Two government sources confirmed that call could come next Wednesday. Philip Lee Shannach reports. Just stay tuned. We need a mandate from the polls. Two government sources confirmed that call could come next Wednesday.

Philip Lee Shannock 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 going to 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. Philip P. Shannock, CBC News, Toronto. Donald Trump again taking shots at Canada,

repeating his grievances about what he describes as unfair trade between Canada and the U.S. As Tom Perry reports, it came as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talked next steps with his Liberal caucus. 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 U.S. president appeared via video at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Trump rehashed his usual complaints and once again claimed the U.S. 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. A documentary about abuse and missing children at a residential school in Williams Lake, BC

has been nominated for an Oscar. Sugarcane explores St. Joseph's mission and subsequent intergenerational trauma. Julian Brave-Noise-Cat of the Cheskin First Nation is one of the film's co-directors. Julian Brave Noisecat of the Cheskin First Nation is one of the film's co-directors. His father was born at the facility. I grew up in a family where there were these lingering ghosts of the history of colonization that I didn't fully understand what they came from and how they impacted my father and my own life. He and his co-directors say they're overjoyed and filled with gratitude for the nomination. The 97th Academy Awards will be handed out March 2nd in Los Angeles. Emilia Perez racked up a record-breaking number of Oscar nominations. It's a musical in Spanish

about the head of a crime cartel family, and it's been getting a lot of attention this award season. But as senior entertainment reporter Ilyac Glasner, tells us the community of the film's spotlights are not celebrating. When it was all said and done, Emilia Perez made history, racking up 13 nominations, including Carla Sofia Gascon as the first openly transgender actress nominee. A remarkable accomplishment for a Spanish language musical about a drug cartel boss who undergoes gender-affirming surgery. While Amelia Perez has been performing well, not everyone is on board.

I was just truly aghast. Sarah Ty Black is one of many in the trans community who see the film as a step backwards. Just such a regression into these stereotypes about trans people. But there's another community frustrated by Emilia Perez. While the film is set mainly in Mexico, it features few Mexican actors and was shot in a French studio. In a recent interview with CNN, Emilia Perez director Jacques Aurillard apologized, saying, cinema doesn't provide answers, it only asks questions.

Eli Glaster, CBC News, Toronto. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles.