The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/05 at 18:00 EST

Episode Date: February 5, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/05 at 18:00 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 Tom Harrington. The latest target for Donald Trump's cost-cutting efforts is the CIA. Elon Musk has offered buyouts to all agency employees. As Richard Madden reports, Democrats argue that Billionaire's sweeping changes may be illegal. That's not a point of order. Chaos erupting on Capitol Hill after House Republicans blocked Democrats demanding to haul billionaire Elon Musk before committee on his unprecedented overhaul of the federal

government. Mr. Elon Musk is out of order and dismantled. President Donald Trump has appointed the world's richest man to oversee cuts to government spending and he's quickly since dismantled big agencies like USAID that provides humanitarian relief. The entire CIA workforce has been offered buyouts and Musk's team has now gained access to sensitive government databases. Democrat Senator Chris Murphy is sounding the alarms.

That this could get dystopian very quickly, that if you were to start speaking ill of Elon Musk, Elon Musk might be able to stop or delay your tax refund. Democrats argue Musk is unelected and his actions illegal, while Republicans say the billionaire is saving taxpayers a fortune in wasteful spending. Richard Madden, CBC News, Washington. Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney expects tariff discussions between Canada and the U.S. to continue into the spring.

There's currently a March 4th deadline for the imposition of 25 percent duties on Canadian goods entering the U.S. Carney hopes a renegotiation of the current free-chair deal with the U.S. and Mexico could bring more stability. The uncertainty that's been created, I think, increases the need to look at USMCA or CUSMA, as we describe it, look at it in its entirety and reinforce it and build forward going forward so that that's there. So I think negotiations will extend and I would very much like to be part of those.

Carney says he's been through this kind of upheaval before. He was governor of the Bank of England during the UK's withdrawal from the European Union. Conservative leader Pierre Pauliev says the government should have acted far earlier to clamp down on fentanyl. Supplies of the opioid crossing into the US is one of the reasons Donald Trump gave for threatening tariffs. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday the establishing of a fentanyl czar. But Poliev says the deaths of 50,000 Canadians from the drug should have been reason enough. We should crack down on drugs not to please President Trump, but to ensure that not one more mother has to bury her face in her hands on learning that her son died of an overdose in a back alley

somewhere. Paul Yev wants life sentences for anyone convicted of fentanyl trafficking, calling them mass murderers. The RCMP say the four people found on the Kerry the Kettle, Dakota First Nation in Saskatchewan were murdered. They say their initial investigation suggests the home was targeted. The bodies of two men and two women were discovered yesterday. Police arrested a man who was pointing a gun at people on a nearby First Nation community.

He's facing weapons charges, but police have not yet said if he's a suspect in the murders. You may have noticed Canadians seem to be uncharacteristically public in their patriotism these days. Even one of Montreal's iconic bakeries had a craving to get into the mood, unveiling a new bagel that shows our true colours. Vanessa Lee explains. I'm listening to the radio and the talk about everything that's going on at the tariffs and I thought, wow, like maybe I can do a Canada bagel. listening to the radio and the talk about everything that's going on at the tariffs

and I thought, wow, like maybe I can do a Canada bagel. Fairmount Bagel co-owner Rhonda Schlaffman is beaming with patriotic pride as she makes a batch of red and white hand rolled bagels. She says it's their way of making a statement. It just came to me overnight. I just thought of doing something that would cheer people up, that would make us feel proud of who we are and where we come from. Schlaffman's grandfather came to Canada from Russia

and opened Montreal's first bagel bakery more than a century ago. The wood-fired bagels are now known around the world. The dough is braided together, she says, much like the way Quebecers and Canadians are uniting in these uncertain times. Vanessa Lee, CBC News, Montreal. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tom Harrington.

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