The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/28 at 08:00 EST

Episode Date: January 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/28 at 08:00 EST

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From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. The final report from the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference is being released today, and it will include a number of recommendations from Commissioner Marie-Josée Ougues on how to prevent foreign meddling in Canadian elections. Rafi Boudjikanian has more. I hope we see a way forward pointed by the Commissioner and her team. Public Safety Minister David McGinty says there is a lot writing on Commissioner Marie-José

Ogg's final report. Ogg has held months of hearings looking into foreign interference in Canadian elections, triggered by headlines largely based on leaks from confidential national security sources. Stories have alleged that in a few writings, China attempted to tip the scale during the last two federal elections. Ogg's interim report also looked at meddling by India, Russia and other countries. Said it may have had an impact on results in a small number of writings, but not on which party formed government. Wesley Wark is a national security expert who has advised past federal governments.

We're going to go into the next election, essentially with the defense mechanisms to deal with foreign interference. He says Ottawa will have a short runway to put OGG's recommendations into place before Canadians head to the polls this year. Rafi Boudjikan, Yann CBC News, Ottawa. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Warsaw signing off on a nuclear energy agreement with Poland.

This agreement is a win-win. It will support good middle-class jobs in Canada, and it will mean better access to nuclear energy for Poland, ensuring that you never again have to turn to Russian oil and gas, all while growing your economy with a clean source of power that will help you shift away from coal. The agreement will see Poland build its first nuclear power facility using materials and services supplied by Canada.

It also involves up to $2 billion in Canadian financing. The Chinese AI company DeepSeq is sending shockwaves across the tech world and across the stock market, and with good reason. It claims to be as powerful and far cheaper than any existing American technology. Scott Peterson reports. We assumed that the US was the dominant player in artificial intelligence.

And now this unknown Chinese company is basically upending all of our assumptions about US dominance. And industry experts are saying that this DeepSeq application has comparable computational ability to the big players like chat, GPT, Google, the meta, but it does it at a fraction of the cost. And there's three reasons why I saw such turmoil yesterday in the markets.

One, DeepSeq is an artificial intelligence app. It needs less microchips. Hence, we saw Nvidia shares going down dramatically, 17%. Less electricity as well as needed because they're using less Cameco. Transalta shares also dropping in Canada dramatically. And it's a truly open AI system, which means it could undercut Microsoft and chat GPT because it's entirely open source. This could up and in is upending already the entire dominance of the US. Scott Peterson, CBC News, Toronto. Five years ago today, the first case of COVID-19 was detected in BC and with a matter of weeks

the pandemic was drastically altering public education in the province and right across the country. John Hernandez reports. We didn't get to learn properly so then when we got to like the next year we were behind. 16 year old Vancouverite, Yuvie Singh was in grade six when the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in BC. By March, schools were suspended indefinitely. Students had to quickly make the switch to online learning. Researchers say the sudden shift took a toll on students of all ages.

Jessica Risk is a sociology professor at the University of Waterloo. She studied the education outcomes for students during 2020. That was very challenging. That increased a lot of student anxiety and stress. It was a very quick ascent for us. Clint Johnson is the president of the BC Teachers Federation. I think there's a cohort kind of flowing through absolutely that probably still has catching up to do. Johnson says kids with special education needs were hit particularly hard.

He says schools need more EAs and mental health resources to support them. John Hernandez, CBC News, Vancouver. And that is The World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings.