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

Episode Date: January 24, 2025

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

What does a mummified Egyptian child, the Parthenon marbles of Greece and an Irish giant all have in common? They are all stuff the British stole. Maybe. Join me, Mark Fennell, as I travel around the globe uncovering the shocking stories of how some, let's call them ill-gotten, artifacts made it to faraway institutions. Spoiler, it was probably the British. Don't miss a brand new season of Stuff the British Style. Watch it free on CBC Gem. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Mike Miles.

Donald Trump says America doesn't need anything from Canada. The US president spoke virtually to a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Trump complained about US trade deficits with other countries, claiming Canada has, in his words, been unfair to America. It's not fair that we should have a $200 billion or $250 billion deficit. 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 more than anybody.

Most economic data show the U.S. trade deficit with Canada last year was actually about $45 billion. A former priest pleaded guilty to charges he sexually abused children in an Inuit community in Nunavut, and not for the first time. TJ Deer has more on the case. Eric Deager has pleaded guilty to six counts of indecent assault. The charges deal with his time as a priest in Igluwik, Nunavut between 1978 and 1982. Most of the victims were children, with the court hearing that some were as young as four years old. Victims told the court details of the abuse they endured in impact statements.

Some said they were injured or passed out from the pain during the assaults. Multiple people were crying in the courtroom as they heard the statements and charges. One person even yelled at DeJager in Inuktitut. Throughout the proceedings, the 77-year-old showed no emotion. The now defrocked priest was previously convicted of 32 counts of child sexual abuse and sentenced to 19 years in prison. He was released on parole after seven years. It's expected he'll be sentenced on the most recent charges on Friday. TJ Deer, CBC News, Iqaluit. 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-C 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. 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's secularism law. Bill 21 bans 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 Lagot vowed the fight to the end to defend Quebec's values and who

Quebecers are. The province preemptively used the Constitution's notwithstanding clause when the law was enacted in 2019. The upcoming closure of all Amazon facilities in Quebec has reignited a conversation online about boycotting the company. But some experts say building momentum around that movement will be an uphill battle. Sharon Yonan-Reynolds reports. Comments from users promising to cancel their Amazon accounts have popped up across social

media platforms such as X and TikTok. But some experts question whether those declarations will turn into action. I think the boycott is not going to pick up as strongly as people would like. Consumer behavior expert Marcelo Nepomuceno says company boycotts in Canada have been effective in the past. He points to the closure of the Kraft Heinz ketchup factory in Leamington, Ontario in 2014, which hurt the company's profits. He says the challenge with Amazon is that the competition doesn't quite measure up. For Amazon, you don't have that many retailers that provide the same convenience, the same fast delivery.

He says that a lot will ride on whether Amazon is able to continue offering the same service to Quebecers. That will be the prime decider for whether people click confirm order or sign out. Sharon Yonan-Reynolds, CBC News, Montreal. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles.