The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/30 at 21:00 EST

Episode Date: January 31, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/30 at 21:00 EST

What does a mummified Egyptian child, the Parthenon marbles of Greece and an Irish giant all have in common? They are all stuff the British stole. Maybe. Join me, Mark Fennell, as I travel around the globe uncovering the shocking stories of how some, let's call them ill-gotten, artifacts made it to faraway institutions. Spoiler, it was probably the British. Don't miss a brand new season of Stuff the British Style. Watch it free on CBC Gem. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Claude Fague.

The National Transportation Safety Board says it has recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the Bombardier CRJ-700 aircraft involved in yesterday's collision in Washington. 67 people were killed when the American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter collided near Ronald Reagan National Airport. Caroline Bargout is in Washington with the latest. There are a lot of people hurting today. 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. Real tragedy. 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. 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 of Boston. The respected Russian-born skating coaches, Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Nomov were on the plane as well, as was 23-year-old

son, former U.S. junior champion, Maxim Nomov. 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, don't look, Mexico and Canada have never been good to us on trade.

The White House says it will release the details on tariffs. On Saturday, Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Public Safety are both in Washington this week lobbying senior Republicans and administration officials. 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 six 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. Montreal's mayor says short-term rentals such as Airbnb will be allowed in the city only during the summer tourist season. That's from June to September.

Valérie 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 apartment and to to have you know to give options to Montreal. We need to look at every possible ways 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. Plants 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, he was convicted on 32 counts of child sexual abuse while working as a priest in Igliglic. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.