The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/30 at 19:00 EST

Episode Date: January 31, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/30 at 19:00 EST

Every language is a note in the symphony of our heritage. Together, they create a harmony that cannot be silenced. Discover your voice on the new APTN Languages TV channel. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Tom Herrington. 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, which they don't. 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 discovered the black boxes on 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 the 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 and NTSB board members 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. Among the airline passengers were 14 people returning from the United States figure skating championships in Wichita, Kansas. Six are from a skating club outside Boston. The respected Russian-born skating coaches Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were on the plane, as well as their 23-year-old son, former U.S. junior champion Maxim Naumov. Global Affairs Canada says it's not aware of any Canadian victims. Jaime Batiste is dropping out of the Liberal leadership race. The Indigenous MP from Nova Scotia is throwing his support behind Mark Carney.

Another 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 dollars a year in profit, is permanent. When it comes to the GST tax cut that's probably about 11 billion dollars for the year and we anticipate about 6 billion dollars 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 five running to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Montreal's mayor says short-term rental

such as Airbnb will be allowed in the city only during the summer tourist season. That's from June to September. Valerie Plaut 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 apartment and to 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 Plante 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 a Ludlick.

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.