The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/06 at 20:00 EST

Episode Date: February 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/06 at 20:00 EST

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It's a law enforcement issue. It's an intelligence issue. It's a public health issue. So this is a complicated issue. And we're also, to be clear, not going to shy away from raising with our American counterparts, as we have, that there are also drug challenges coming northward. McGinty cited the seizure of more than 300 kilograms of cocaine announced by Toronto police earlier this week.

Five people were arrested, one of them a Mexican national facing deportation. As Donald Trump talks about tariffs and turning Canada into the 51st state, Canadians are listening. But they're doing their talking with travel agents and are rethinking their plans to visit the U.S. Amra Durakovich speaks for the travel company Flight Center. Since the weekend, we're definitely seeing a lot of Canadians are canceling their vacations to the U.S. They're opting to go anywhere but the U.S. right now. Durakovich says in some cases people are canceling 10 or 20 thousand dollar trips even if they lose their deposits. A US judge is giving federal workers more time to

consider a buyout offer from the Trump administration. Workers had until midnight tonight to accept Elon Musk's plan or he would start slashing jobs. Caroline Bargout is in Washington with the latest. Unions representing 800,000 federal workers filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of Elon Musk's buyouts and asked a judge to temporarily halt them. Musk had given 2 million workers until midnight Thursday to accept his offer. Thursday afternoon, the judge extended the deadline to Monday and ordered a new hearing. Democrats, including Chewie Garcia, are calling for Musk to be fired. People across all the states and capitals throughout the country are rising up and saying that we cannot have an unelected someone who has not been vetted, who has not taken an oath to protect the interests of the people. The buyouts are part of Musk's plan to cut the federal workforce by 10 percent. So far, more than 40,000 bureaucrats have accepted his offer, far short of his 200,000

employee goal. If he doesn't reach that target by the deadline, Musk and his team are expected to start slashing jobs and laying people off. Caroline Bargout, CBC News, Washington. The U.S. Justice Department is suing the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago. The suit claims interference with the Trump administration's immigration enforcement efforts. Chicago is one of a number of so-called sanctuary cities in the United States.

It means the local government limits cooperation when it comes to a range of immigration issues. Another strain of bird flu has been found in dairy cattle in the United States. It's the type that caused one death in the U.S. and made a Canadian teen seriously ill. That's sparking concerns here. It could show up more frequently. Sarah Levitt has more. At least four cattle herds in Nevada have tested positive for a strain of H5N1 or bird flu, a strain that's never before

been detected in cows. The United States Department of Agriculture says it confirmed the presence of the D1.1 strain and has been found in birds and so far two people have contracted it. A man in Louisiana died from it last year and a 13-year-old girl in British Columbia got seriously ill but has since recovered. The concern is that this mutation could make its way into dairy herds in Canada. Robert Chapman Wood is a professor of strategic management at San Jose State University.

So far the number of cows infected has not had the same kind of impact as the number of birds infected, but that could happen. Previously, researchers had believed spread from poultry to cattle was a rare one-off event. D1.1 has proved otherwise. Sarah Levitt, CBC News, Montreal. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tom Harrington. Thanks for listening.