The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/24 at 13:00 EST

Episode Date: January 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/24 at 13:00 EST

I distinctly remember hearing someone yell, stop that van. From CBC Podcast, an investigation into how young men are being recruited and radicalized on the internet. And she asked me if I was friends with a guy named Alec Manassian. By a new supercharged form of hate. On Facebook, police say he wrote the incel rebellion has already begun. A dark online subculture that's spilling over into the real world. Boys Like Me, available now on CBC Listen and everywhere you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Claude Fague.

The Trump administration is expanding the use of fast-track deportation powers nationwide. And that means immigration officers will be able to deport migrants without appearing before a judge. Overnight, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, confirms agents arrested 538 people. Trump is already claiming success. We're getting the bad, hard criminals out. These are murderers. These are people that have been as bad as you get,

as bad as anybody you've seen. We're taking them out first. Critics are concerned lawful residents and even US citizens could be deported by mistake. And they say not enough is being done to protect migrants genuinely at risk if returned to their homeland. In Manitoba, six migrants were found trying to cross into Canada from the U.S. on foot

and in freezing temperatures. The RCMP say the group was spotted from the air last week and were not dressed for the cold. Ottawa has been bracing for an influx of migrants from the U.S. as President Trump begins promised mass deportations. Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Jolie will meet with the new U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington next week to press Canada's case against the imposition of tariffs. U.S. President Trump is threatening to impose 25 percent tariffs starting on February the

1st. Ontario voters are going to the polls next month. Premier Doug Ford is calling an election 18 months ahead of schedule. Philip Leishanek reports. It would be an absolute disaster. Doug Ford says he's the best choice to defend Ontario and Canada against US President Donald Trump compared to his Liberal and new Democrat rivals.

Imagine Bonnie Crombie or Merritt Stiles sitting across from President Trump negotiating a deal. Ontario Liberal leader Crombie says Ford's early election call is aimed at getting ahead of an RCMP investigation into connected developers who wanted to buy protected land. They're closing in on what happened in that $8 billion Green Belt scandal. But Ford says he needs a strong mandate to defend Ontario's economy against U.S. tariffs. New Democrat Merit Stiles says it's already the Premier's job. It is the mandate of a government to do that. You don't need another mandate. Ford says he'll make it official next week, sending Ontarians to the polls on February

27th. Fulton Shannock, CBC News, Toronto. The Saskatoon Police Department is establishing a specialized unit to deal with intimate partner violence. Saskatchewan has the highest rate of reported incidents of domestic violence in the country. Alexander Silberman reports. 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 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. A fierce storm has shut down parts of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland. Storm Aewyn brought record-breaking winds gusting to 182 kilometres an hour in Galway.

More than 90,000 homes in Ireland and more than 100,000 in Scotland have lost power. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.