The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/30 at 23:00 EST

Episode Date: January 31, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/30 at 23:00 EST

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Because news. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Claude Fague. All 67 people on board the airliner and helicopter that crashed in Washington have been killed, according to U.S. officials. Forty of the bodies have now been recovered. Investigators say they need time to find the causes of the collision between the two aircraft. Thursday night, they confirmed they had recovered the flight and data recorders from the jet,

but not the Black Hawk helicopter. But as Paul Hunter reports, the U.S. president is already laying blame. Crash, crash, crash. This is Alert 3. Crash, crash, crash. This is Alert 3. On final approach to Washington National Airport, one of the busiest and most tightly controlled air spaces in America, somehow a military helicopter on a training flight crossed into the path of American Airlines

Flight 5342, carrying 60 passengers. There was a fireball and both plummeted into the river. At the White House, U.S. President Donald Trump called it a dark and excruciating night. Trump then quickly turned to politics, seeming to blame the Biden and Obama administrations for putting diversity hires ahead of merit at the U.S. Federal Aviation Authority. The FAA's diversity push includes focus on hiring people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities.

And though there's been no evidence so-called diversity hires played any role at all in the crash, Trump then signed off on a new executive order emphasizing no more diversity hires specific to the FAA. Paul Hunter, CBC News, Washington. And 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 on tariffs on Saturday. Canada's ministers of foreign affairs and public safety are in Washington this week lobbying senior Republicans and administration officials. Ontario is bracing for potentially large-scale tariffs from Donald Trump, and the impact

would be severe in the province. As Alexander Silverman tells us, some businesses are already feeling the financial consequences. The threat of tariffs is already hurting sales at Conquest Steel, a family-run plant in Toronto. With sales to the US grinding to a halt, several machines are powered down and production hours cut back. It has potentially devastating consequences for our business. Rahim Moulu manages the small factory. We've had our U.S. distributors cancel orders because they're unwilling to take the chance

on the cost going up 25% overnight. Tariffs are expected to hurt Ontario's manufacturing sector the most. Up to half a million jobs in the province rely on cross-border trade. So this would be a tremendously bad shock to the Ontario economy. Peter Morrow is a professor of economics at the University of Toronto. He says targeted specific counter tariffs are Ontario's most effective response. At the Toronto Metal Factory, Molu is searching for new customers in Canada. He hopes a silver lining in a trade war could be a new

push to buy Canadian. Alexander Silverman, CBC News, Toronto. A St. John man is facing murder charges after two boys were found dead inside a residence. The victims were 10 and 17 years old. Staff Sergeant Sarah Hobbs is with St. John Police. The accused was known to the victims. Our major crime unit and family protection unit in cooperation with the coroner's office continue to investigate. Hobbs says police discovered the accused in the home. The 46 year old man was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries and remains in police custody.

And that is your World This Hour. For news anytime, visit our website at cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.