The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/30 at 17:00 EST

Episode Date: January 30, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/30 at 17:00 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. Donald Trump is musing once again about his plan to put 25 percent tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico. In the Oval Office today, a reporter asked the President whether the tariffs would apply to Canadian oil and gas. We may or may not. We're going to make that determination probably tonight on oil, because they send us oil.

We'll see. It depends on what the price is. If the oil is properly priced, if they treat us properly, we'd say, no, look, Mexico and Canada have never been good to us on trade. The White House says it will release the details of the tariffs on Saturday. Canada's ministers of foreign affairs and public safety are in Washington this week, lobbying senior Republicans and administration officials. The National Transportation Safety Board says it still hasn't recovered the black boxes

from the aircraft involved in last night's crash in Washington. 67 people were killed when an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter collided near Ronald Reagan National Airport and plunged into Potomac River. Caroline Bargout is in Washington with the latest. The National Transportation Safety Board says it will find those black boxes, but right now the priority is recovering the bodies of people who were on board American Airlines Flight 5342 and the U.S. soldiers on the Black Hawk helicopter. Earlier today, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested air traffic controllers could be

at fault and accused the Democrats' diversity, equity and inclusion policies for their hiring. Asked if this was human error or mechanical failure, Todd Inman, an NTSB board member, said this. Our investigative team will be on scene as long as it takes in order to obtain all of the perishable evidence and all of the fact-finding that is needed to bring us to a conclusion of probable cause. A team of investigators from Canada are also on site to help out. Caroline Bargout, CBC News, Washington. Hamas released another eight hostages today during a chaotic scene in Chanyunas. Three Israelis and five Thai farm workers were handed over to the Red Cross.

They were led through an angry crowd that jostled and jeered the hostages. The reaction prompted Israel to delay the release of 110 Palestinian prisoners and detainees for several hours. This is the third exchange since the current ceasefire went into effect. Liberal leadership candidate Karina Gould is proposing a 1% cut in the GST for one year to give struggling families a break. She also wants a permanent 2% tax rate increase for some corporations. The corporate tax increase for again the wealthiest companies, so those that make over $500 million a year in profit is permanent. When it comes to the GST tax cut, that's probably about $11 billion for the year and we anticipate about $6 billion in revenue, but what we also know is that when people have more

disposable income to spend that they're also there to stimulate the economy. Gould is one of six candidates running to replace outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Montreal's mayor says short-term rentals such as Airbnb will only be allowed in the city during the summer tourist season. That's from June to September. Valerie Plante says a crackdown on illegal rentals is necessary because the housing shortage has become so severe. This is the first time we do this and we're doing it because we believe that there's not

one way to bring back apartments and to have, you know, to give options to Montreal. We need to look at every possible way and this is one extra that we're adding in our toolbox. The city says more than half the 4,000 units currently available on the short-term rental market are illegal. Inspectors are overwhelmed and Plon says anyone who breaks the new rules will face a $1,000 fine per night. A former Roman Catholic priest has been sentenced to six years in prison for indecent assault. Eric DeJager pleaded guilty to charges involving seven Inuit children in the 1970s and 80s.

In 2015, DeJager was convicted on 32 counts of child sexual abuse while working as a priest in Igloolik. He was sentenced to 19 years in prison but was paroled after seven. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tom Harrington. Thanks for listening.