The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/01 at 13:00 EST

Episode Date: February 1, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/01 at 13:00 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 this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. The White House says a decision on tariffs will be released today and sources say it could come this afternoon. As Rafi Bouchicanean tells us, the uncertainty is creating stress on both sides of the border. Canada is a strong country, stronger than Donald Trump thinks. Ontario Premier Doug Ford trying to turn the chaos of coming tariffs into a political opportunity. We have to make sure the high-grade nickel and many other critical minerals He needs to feel the pain energy and electricity and aluminum uranium and potash He's talking about tariff counter punches in the case of an all-out trade war the federal government agrees saying it will

Retaliate dollar for dollar with tariffs on US imports, but for Lloyd Axworthy, that's not enough We have to find new partners, we have to collaborate. He was Canada's foreign affairs minister under Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. I think we should get back and start doing what Canadians do well, which is to convene and bring together other countries to kind of constrain the Trump imperialism. Ottawa says it has a three-phase plan for retaliatory tariffs. Rafi Boudjikani on CBC News, Ottawa. Canadians are waiting for the other shoe to drop to find out exactly what US President

Donald Trump's tariff plan looks like and what it'll do to the Canadian economy. Caroline Bargout has the latest from Washington. Yesterday, US President Donald Trump said the tariffs would be coming today and would be set at 25% for Canada and Mexico. But at this point we haven't seen any official details including whether any goods would be exempt. On Friday Trump said Canadian oil and gas will face 10% tariffs in a couple of weeks and said levies will be imposed on Canadian copper too but not till later. And that's not all. Eventually, we're going to put tariffs on chips.

We're going to put tariffs on oil and gas. That'll happen fairly soon. Think around the 18th of February. And we're going to put a lot of tariffs on steel. For weeks, U.S. oil and automotive companies have lobbied President Trump for exemptions, warning of higher prices and wide supply chain issues. Canadian government officials have also done their best to lobby against the tariffs, but it doesn't appear to have worked.

Caroline Bargout, CBC News, Washington. In the Middle East. The family of an Israeli hostage released by Hamas expresses joy. Three men were headed over to the International Red Cross and then to Israeli defense forces today. In return, Israel is expected to release more than 180 Palestinian detainees. This is the fourth exchange between Israel and Hamas as part of the ceasefire deal agreed to nearly two weeks ago.

In Philadelphia... I just see the plane is getting lower and lower and lower. They nipped the house, they hit a couple cars, boom! And they took it to the Plaza. I've never seen nothing like that a day in my life. A witness describes what he saw after a medevac jet crashed into a mall in a Philadelphia neighborhood Friday night. Authorities confirmed seven people are dead. That includes a pediatric patient, her mother, and a crew of four on the plane It crashed about 30 seconds after takeoff setting homes and vehicles on fire The child a Mexican national has been there for medical care and was headed home

Shy gold represents the air ambulance company which operates the plane This flight was a repatriation flight of a patient who recovered and was headed home. She was fit to fly, cleared to go back home, and we were contracted by a third-party charitable organization to transport her back to Mexico. So the final destination was to Biti Juana International Airport. Another 19 people on the ground were injured. In the lead-up to the Ontario election, all four political leaders are campaigning in southern Ontario today. Progressive

Conservative leader Doug Ford is in the Brampton area, both Liberal leader Ronnie Cromby and NEP leader Matt Stiles are in Toronto, and Green Party leader Mike Schreiner is in Kitchener. Ontarians goad the polls on February 27th. Ontarians go to the polls on February 27th. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.