The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/04 at 00:00 EST

Episode Date: February 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/04 at 00:00 EST

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Chappell Rhone, Taylor Swift and of course the big story Beyonce. Find our Grammy highlights episode wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Herland. We begin in Washington where Canada has received a stay of execution. Tariffs on goods entering the US that were supposed to take effect Tuesday have been put off for a month. The CBC's Katie Simpson reports. Signing executive orders with a sharpie in the Oval Office, Trump strayed from the idea tariffs are really a way to better secure the border. Again saying Canada would not face the penalty if it became the 51st state. If people wanted to play the game right, it would be 100% certain that they'd become a state.

But a lot of people don't like to play the game because they don't have a threshold of pain. And there would be some pain. Incendiary language as Trump continues to shift the goalposts. On top of becoming a state, he said he also wants Canada to increase defence spending to allow U.S. banks more access to the Canadian market. Canadians may need to get used to this. Trump views himself as a negotiator and he wants to tilt the trading

relationship in America's favour because he knows he's got the most powerful economy in the world. Katie Simpson, CBC News, Washington. Well provincial premiers are breathing a sigh of relief now that Canada has won a reprieve from the threat of U.S. tariffs. But as Tom Perry reports, that relief may only be temporary. So I think what we've got now is a situation where we've got some work to do for the next 30 days. Public safety minister David McGinty says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau listened to

the concerns of U.S. President Donald Trump during their phone call Monday. Canada has pledged to step up efforts to stop fentanyl and illegal migrants from crossing the border. But while Trump has paused his threat of tariffs for 30 days, Quebec Premier François Lagault is still uneasy. For me it's not a complete victory. For me I still think that Mr. Trump want to attack Canada. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says while this is good news, the threat of tariffs remains.

Manitoba Premier Wab Kanu says he'll keep working to, in his words, Trump-proof his province's economy. Tom Perry, CBC News, Ottawa. What many see as unneighbourly treatment by the U.S. has sparked a surge of Canadian pride. From sports arenas to the streets, Canadians are making their feelings known. Thomas Dagler reports. On a busy downtown Toronto street, in the shadow of the imposing grey U.S. consulate, ask Canadians how they feel and you'll get a burst of patriotism. I think people are disappointed and obviously it's ramped

up to a point that we haven't seen maybe ever. That emotion spilling out into the open during the U.S. National Anthem at NHL games in Vancouver, Calgary and Ottawa and as the Toronto Raptors hosted the LA Clippers. Consider it a moment of national frustration, reminiscent for some of a much different dispute in 2003. Back then hockey fans in Montreal booed the Star Spangled Banner over the US-led invasion of Iraq.

Canada refused to join the operation, the potential trade war provoking unity from coast to coast as Canadians everywhere consider what's to come. Thomas Daigle, CBC News, Toronto. The U.S. government has reached a deal to send some of its dangerous criminals to El Salvador, where they'll be housed in prisons. The U.S. will pay El Salvador to take the prisoners. The agreement will help the U.S. lower its detention costs, while bringing new revenue to El Salvador.

A 17-year-old Australian girl has been killed in a shark attack. It happened at a beach north of Brisbane. The victim was swimming when a shark bit her. Rose Harrison witnessed the tragedy. I could hear screaming next minute, all hell broke loose and the police were running. I just couldn't believe it. And one of the ladies that was down here comforting one of the locals, I've been here ten years, this has never happened.

And it's going to devastate the community. Shark attacks are considered extremely rare. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neal Herland.