The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/31 at 17:00 EST

Episode Date: January 31, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/31 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 is our, I'm Karen Hauerlach. U.S. President Donald Trump says there's nothing Canada can do to avoid tariffs set to come into force tomorrow? It will be 25% on almost all Canadian goods. When one sector may get a reprieve, Chris Reyes has what details are known so far. Why should we be subsidizing Canada? President Donald Trump stood firm on imposing tariffs on Canada as he signed executive orders from the Oval Office. Will possibly very substantially increase it or not.

We'll see how it is. Trump told reporters they'll be put on oil and gas, but reduced the amount to 10% from the original threat of 25% on all Canadian goods. Trump said those tariffs are likely to take effect on February 18. He has yet to sign an executive order to make it official. Chris Reyes, CBC News, New York. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says if the Trump administration moves ahead with those tariffs, retaliatory tariffs from Ottawa will involve more than just one sector of the economy. Anything we do will be

fair right across the country that all Canadians will share in the job of standing up for our interests and quite frankly standing up to defend the most successful trading relationship in the world. Trudeau says Ottawa doesn't want to impose retaliatory tariffs but will do so if it has to. Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney says he will eliminate the Trudeau government's carbon pricing policy if he becomes the party's next leader. What we'll do is create a system of incentives to reward Canadians for making greener choices. So it means that you'll no longer have to pay more to fuel your car or heat your home.

But when you choose an energy efficient appliance or an electric car or home insulation, you will be rewarded and we will get the big polluters to pay for it. Carney says the carbon pricing initiative had merit but has become too divisive. Liberal leadership contender Christia Freeland is also promising to do away with the consumer carbon tax. The Canadian economy shrank a bit last November, according to the latest data from Statistics Canada. But there are predictions December's numbers could make up for it.

Anish Nare has details. 0.2% smaller in November. That's how much the Canadian gross domestic product shrank in November of last year. The GDP is one of the main ways the economy's overall size is measured. According to Statistics Canada, one of the biggest drops came from transportation and warehousing, pinning that in part on things like labour disruptions at Canada Post or at ports. Many economists had predicted the economy would not shrink this much in November, so

while today's data is a little bit unexpected, there are predictions things will have bounced back in December, which is expected to show economic growth and that overall GDP numbers for the last three months of 2024 and the entire year will show overall growth. And he's hit our CBC News, Calgary. And the extensive recovery effort continues on the Potomac River in Washington following that deadly midair collision between an American Airlines plane and a military helicopter Wednesday night. There were no survivors. Officials say 40 bodies have been recovered so far, as well as the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorders and a salvage company is assisting with the recovery of the wreckage. A California man is pleading guilty to charges after a drone

crashed into a Quebec water bomber helping fight the Los Angeles fires this month. Peter Tripp Ackerman admitted to one count of unsafe operation of an unmanned aircraft. U.S. Attorney Joseph McNally. Mr. Ackerman admitted that on January 9th, while the Pacific Palisades fire still raged, he went to the top of a parking garage, he launched a drone from that location and flew it around where the wildfires were raging

in an effort to observe the damage. The damage from the collision grounded the Super Scooper for several days. Ackerman has agreed to pay for the cost of repairs to the plane, about $65,000 US. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Karen Howerlach.