The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/27 at 18:00 EST

Episode Date: January 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/27 at 18:00 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 is our. I'm Tom Herrington. Canadian officials are making a last-ditch effort this week to avoid tariffs. President Donald Trump is threatening to impose hefty levies on Canadian goods this Saturday. As Olivia Stefanovic reports, there are different views on how Ottawa should respond. This is our number one priority and we're working at it every day. Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Jolie says the federal government is seized with avoiding tariffs but won't release a full list of American products Canada

will levy if US President Donald Trump moves forward with his threat. And we won't negotiate on you know in front of the public. But Jolie's former cabinet colleague Christia Freeland says she would approach Trump much differently. What I think we need to do is be very, very strong and very specific. Freeland went head-to-head with the US president the last time he was in the White House. Now that she's running to become the next liberal leader and prime minister, Freeland is urging the government to publish a dollar-for-dollar

retaliation list worth more than $200 billion. Olivia Stevanovic, CBC News, Ottawa. We as a province have a responsibility to stand up for your jobs. Manitoba's premier says conservation officers are being asked to help keep an eye on the U.S. border. Wabkanoo says they'll focus on secondary roads and backcountry areas. The move is in response to President Donald Trump's concerns about security at the border with Canada.

And that's why with the tools that we have at the provincial level, including conservation officers, motor carrier enforcement, that we are putting these additional investments forward to help advance the priorities of you in our own communities, but also to send a message to our American allies that we're serious about safety and security. Many provinces have promised to boost border surveillance. Radio Canada has learned the Prime Minister is planning to fill the ten 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. Artificial intelligence is having a real impact on North American stock markets today. The value of many US-based tech firms dropped following news of a low-cost and highly popular Chinese chatbot. It's called DeepSeq. Paolo Duhacic has more. York University professor Murat Kristal says in many ways DeepSeq's AI model is very similar to chat GPT. You can ask questions and it will create answers. It works as a chatbot but also as a reasoning engine.

The difference, according to the Chinese company, is that DeepSeek's model was built faster and more cheaply. This morning, stock markets plunged, US tech companies took a hit with chipmaker Nvidia leading the fall. So it's like the West is playing catch-up. Some have called it the Sputnik moment, comparing the AI rivalry between the U.S. and China to the space race of the 1950s. Well now they have a generative AI model that works as good as Western world.

It is significant. Also Monday, CNBC reported DeepSeq was hit by a cyber attack and had to temporarily limit new registrations. Paula Duhaczek, CBC News, Calgary. This is International Holocaust Remembrance Day and it is also the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. The few remaining survivors were among those marking the solemn occasion in Poland. World leaders including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

and King Charles were on hand. But none of the dignitaries gave speeches. Those were left to survivors who spoke about the worrying resurgence of anti-Semitism and nationalist style slogans in parts of Europe. And they warned hatred only leads to more hatred. More than one million people, most of them Jews, were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tom Harrington.

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