The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/27 at 13:00 EST

Episode Date: January 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/27 at 13:00 EST

When a body is discovered 10 miles out to sea, it sparks a mind-blowing police investigation. There's a man living in this address in the name of a deceased. He's one of the most wanted men in the world. This isn't really happening. Officers are finding large sums of money. It's a tale of murder, skullduggery and international intrigue. So who really is he? I'm Sam Mullins and this is Sea of Lies from CBC's Uncovered, available now.

From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Tom Harrington. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Poland to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. He joined other world leaders for International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The day honours the six million Jews and millions of other people murdered by the Nazis in the Second World War. Tom Parry reports from Poland. Music amid the watchtowers and barbed wire that still stand at the Auschwitz-Birkenau

concentration camp. Survivors like tova Friedman here to mark the 80th anniversary of the camp's liberation from the Nazis sharing stories of loss and horror. I stood in watch helplessly as little girls from the nearby barrack were marched away crying and shivering to the gas chamber. The ceremony was attended by dignitaries from around the world. King Charles, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky,

French President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Trudeau met before the ceremony with two Canadian survivors who say they're worried about a rise in modern-day anti-Semitism and hate. Tom Perry, CBC News, Auschwitz. Tens of thousands of Palestinians walked the main roads leading north in Gaza. The United Nations estimates at least 200,000 made the trek. Israel opened the North for the first time since the early weeks of the war with Hamas that began 15 months ago.

The fragile ceasefire is now into its second week. Hamas has told Israeli officials eight of the hostages to be freed during the deal's first phase are dead. An IDF spokesperson says the families have been informed and the disclosure matches what Israeli intelligence had believed. Israel says there are still about 90 hostages being held in Gaza. Radio Canada has learned the Prime Minister is planning to fill the 10 vacancies in the Senate before he retires in March. The move would allow Justin Trudeau to leave a mark on parliament for years to come. The unelected legislators are able to sit

in the upper chamber until the age of 75. In a written response, the Prime Minister's office says the advisory board for Senate appointments is working to propose candidates for all vacancies. In Ottawa, Jonathan Pedneau is returning to the federal Green Party. Pedneau was the party's deputy leader but resigned for personal reasons last summer. The tragic, in fact despicable election south of the border of a president that is assuaging fascism and creating a threat to our way of living meant that I simply couldn't stand on the sidelines anymore. Pedno says he wants to resume the position of co-leader, but says the party membership has to vote in favor of such a move. Ontario's efforts to expand alcohol sales are costing taxpayers hundreds of millions

of dollars more than expected. That is the finding in a new report from the province's Financial Accountability Office. Megha Fitzpatrick has the details. Ontarians now have more options for where they can pick up a bottle of wine or a case of beer, but the convenience comes with a cost. The province's financial accountability officer is pegging the net cost of expanding alcohol sales at $1.4 billion. That's from 2024 when the marketplace changes

were brought in to the end of 2030. Beer, wine, and ready-to-drink beverage sales were expanded last year to big box stores, convenience stores, and more grocery stores. That expansion plan was supposed to start in 2026, but it was sped up, and that decision cost an estimated $ 612 million dollars according to the report. Other costs are related to financial support for the beer and wine

industries, lost tax revenue and lower sales for the provincially run LCBO stores. Opposition parties say the price tag revealed today shows Premier Doug Ford's priorities are wrong and that money could have been spent on hiring more doctors. Megan Fitzpatrick, CBC News, Toronto. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tom Harrington. Thanks for listening.