The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/01/31 at 22:00 EST

Episode Date: February 1, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/01/31 at 22:00 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.

A 25% tariff on all Canadian goods entering the US is set to take effect in just hours, despite efforts by the Trudeau government to change Donald Trump's mind. Chris Reyes has more from New York. Nothing written down or signed, but President Donald Trump remained firm on putting tariffs on Canada, China and Mexico. The details are still unclear, but he did say this. Not a negotiating tool?

No, it's not. No, it's a pure economic. We have big deficits with, as you know, with all three of them. Trump seemed to indicate that a 25 percent tariff on Canadian goods will still be implemented tomorrow as promised. But he said tariffs on oil and gas will now be reduced to 10 percent. We're going to put tariffs on oil and gas. That'll happen fairly soon.

Think around the 18th of February. You see the power of the tariff. I mean the tariff is good and nobody can compete with us because we have by far the biggest piggy bank. That'll take place very quickly. Trump said he's building a tariff wall but has yet to sign an executive order to make it official. Chris Reyes, CBC News, New York. The federal government says it will continue to lobby against tariffs in Washington despite Trump's Hardening language on the issue Tom Perry reports from Ottawa like you

We heard the comments of President Trump today regarding tariffs foreign affairs minister Melanie Jolie speaking from Washington where she and other federal cabinet ministers were making yet another pitch to US officials to stave off ministers were making yet another pitch to U.S. officials to stave off American tariffs. Jolie says they all heard Donald Trump's pledge to target Canada, Mexico, and China, but have seen nothing in writing. We have yet seen any form of clear decision making and as well as any form of specific details coming from the White House. Jolie says she'll keep trying to persuade American politicians. Tariffs will hurt both the Canadian and U.S. economies, but Trump, so far, doesn't appear to be listening. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is vowing to retaliate,

but warning Canadians the country could be facing some difficult times. Tom Perry, CBC News, Ottawa. Fears of a tariff war with the U.S. are having an effect on the Canadian dollar. It dipped below 69 cents to U.S. today that the loonie is at its lowest level against the American back since the early days of the pandemic. Reaction to the tariff announcement has been swift.

Flavio Volpe is the president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturing Association. Volpe says American companies have remained largely silent, but that will change when tariffs start to hurt their profits. I'll tell you, anybody who's a shareholder of an American car company, the day after these tariffs go through, will see the value of their holdings drop. Institutional shareholders will see that. That market response is going to force boards to either have their executive take action or find new executives. Volpe says the auto sector will get hit hard by the tariffs. In Philadelphia, a medevac Learjet carrying six people, including a child patient,

crashed into a local mall and residential area shortly after takeoff this evening. A spokesperson for Jet Rescue Air Ambulance confirmed the child and another person were on board along with four crew members. The flight was on route to Springfield, Missouri, but crashed about 30 seconds after takeoff. This witness describes the moment he saw the jet crash. You just hear everybody say, get down, get down, get down.

When everybody say get down, we all get down. But I just see the plane is getting lower and lower and lower. They nipped the house. When they nipped the house, they hit a couple cars. Boom! And it took a plaza, it took a Dunkin Donuts everywhere. I've never seen nothing like that a day in my life. So far, there is no confirmation of any survivors on the plane or possible casualties on the ground. A California man has agreed to plead guilty to unsafe operation of a drone, which crashed into a Quebec water bomber on loan to those fighting the LA fires. The collision caused $65,000 in damage and grounded the super scooper for several days.

Peter Aikman agreed to pay restitution for the damage and complete 150 hours of community service. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.