The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/24 at 10:00 EST

Episode Date: January 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/24 at 10:00 EST

Hi, I'm Jamie Poisson and I do the show Frontburner. It's a daily news program, five days a week, a deep look at one story you actually want to know more about. One of the coolest parts of this job is when people show me how often one of our episodes comes up in their group chats. It's a real range of topics too. Rent gouging, Trump and Elon Musk, the Middle East, even culture stuff that has real consequences,

like Diddy, for example. So if you are one of those people sharing our stuff in your group chat, I just want to say thank you. And if you aren't yet, please find and follow Frontburner wherever you get your podcasts and please get it in the chat. From CBC News, it's the World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings. A year and a half ahead of the fixed election date, Ontario voters are going to the polls. We will be calling the election next Wednesday.

I'll be seeing the Lieutenant Governor on Tuesday. We need a mandate from the people to fight against Donald Trump's tariffs, the attack he's coming against our families, our businesses, our communities. That's Premier Doug Ford announcing a February 27 election. Ford's election call is being made despite the fact he still has 18 months left in his current majority mandate. He made the announcement today in Brampton, Ontario, which is a key provincial battleground

region. Donald Trump's ongoing tariff threats are now including Russia. The U.S. president says trade action against Russia could force an end to the war in Ukraine. Briar Stewart has more now from Harkeev. Trump says he's ready to meet with Vladimir Putin immediately to try to end the war. Every day we don't meet, soldiers are being killed in a battlefield. If Russia's president doesn't negotiate, Trump threatened to sanction and tax Russian goods. In an interview with Fox News, Trump also had pointed words for Ukraine's president.

Zelensky, I will say this, he wants to settle now. He's had enough. Russia is still pushing ahead in eastern Ukraine as Kiev tries to replenish its depleted ranks by looking at ways to offer incentives to recruit younger men. Ukraine says it shot down just under half of the drones Russia launched overnight, but at least three people were killed when one slammed into a 10-story apartment building 25 kilometers from the capital. While Ukraine's cities and villages continue to be bombarded, Russia says it repelled a

massive drone attack in more than a dozen regions. Briar Stewart, CBC News, Kharkiv. Less than a week after the Israel Hamas ceasefire went into effect, and the United Nations is reporting that progress is being made in the delivery of emergency aid across Gaza. Sasha Petrasek reports. The United Nations and other agencies have been quite happy with the increase in aid that's been able to make it in.

They're saying that an average of 780 aid trucks are getting into Gaza from different entrances. Most of that is food, and they're especially happy that it is able to be distributed inside Gaza. That was a big, big worry because of the condition of the roads, the infrastructure. Their only challenge now is that there's really nowhere to put this aid.

It has to be distributed right away because there are no warehouses. Those have been destroyed, and it will be especially challenging over the next few days because a lot of people will be moving from the south to the north into Gaza City and those areas. There are tent cities being put up there, but the aid demand is going to be huge there as well.

Sasha Petrusik, CBC News on the Israel-Gaza border. Police in Saskatoon are creating a specialized team designed to improve its response to intimate partner violence. It comes to Saskatchewan as the highest provincial rate of police-reported incidents in the country. Alexandra Silberman has more. The phone is ringing a lot. Krista Barron says she's receiving a growing number of calls from women fleeing domestic violence.

She runs Sophia House, which provides transitional housing to women and children. All 39 of its units are full. Saskatchewan is continuing to see a growing rate of police-reported intimate partner violence, with 710 victims per 100,000 people in 2023. Advocates say the largely rural province can make getting help difficult. That's an issue police in Saskatoon are hoping to reduce with a new dedicated team. Cameron McBride is chief of the Saskatoon Police Service. We might see numbers rise simply because people feel more comfortable, more able to report that.

The program focuses on prevention by staying in touch with people at risk, but also potential offenders. Alexander Silverman, CBC News, Regina. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.