The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/28 at 10:00 EST

Episode Date: January 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/28 at 10:00 EST

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From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. The final report from the public inquiryquiry into Foreign Interference is being released today. And it will include a number of recommendations from Commissioner Marie-Josée Ougue on how to prevent foreign meddling in Canadian elections. Rafi Boujikhanian reports. 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 OGS recommendations into place before Canadians head to the polls this year. Rafi Boujikan, Yann CBC News, Ottawa. Ahead of today's final report, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is saying he's worried about how social media giants may be influencing elections. Democracies being influenced by messages of division, of hatred, of targeting one group at the expense of another. That's something that we all have to be attentive to and vigilant about. Last week, New Democrat MP Charlie Angus wrote to Elections Canada asking for an immediate investigation

into X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk. Angus says Election Canada needs to be able to take action if Musk is found to be interfering during the next federal election campaign. An Ontario election gets underway today. Premier Doug Ford will be asking the Lieutenant Governor to dissolve the provincial parliament this afternoon, and the campaign will be asking the lieutenant governor to dissolve the provincial parliament this afternoon and the campaign will be on. Ford is insisting he needs a new majority mandate to deal with the challenges of the Trump administration.

But the new Democrats, the liberals, and the Green Party all say the snap election is a waste of time and money. Ontarians will be going to the polls on February 27th, which is more than a year ahead of the fixed election date. The Chinese AI company DeepSeek 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 explains.

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 deep seek application has Comparable computational ability to the big players like chat GPT Google meta But it does it at a fraction of the cost is three reasons why saw such turmoil yesterday in the markets one Deep seek 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 is upending already the entire dominance of the US. Scott Peterson, CBC News, Toronto. Forty years ago today, some of the biggest names in American music came together to record a song for charity. It was Harry Belafonte's idea to release a charity single like Britain's Band-Aid, and USA for Africa was formed. We Are the World was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie and produced by Quincy Jones, and featured the likes of Diana Ross, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, and Cyndi Lauper, among others. The single went on to raise more than $60 million for African famine relief.

And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.