The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/06 at 22:00 EST

Episode Date: February 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/06 at 22:00 EST

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From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Claude Fague. Donald Trump's threat of tariffs continues to dominate political discussions at all levels of government. Justin Trudeau sat down today with big city mayors, trying to plan for what the U.S. president may or may not do. Tom Perry reports. Over the coming month, Team Canada will be stepping up. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reminding mayors from across Canada the country is not out

of the woods yet when it comes to U.S. tariffs. Trudeau says municipal leaders need to spread that message to their fellow mayors and city councillors in the U.S. Josh Morgan is mayor of London, Ontario. I think the rest of the world could be just sitting back and laughing at us because we've built something incredibly special here that is highly effective. And we should be fostering and growing it, not doing damage to it. Federal ministers continue to make the rounds in Washington while in Canada.

The government says it's working on a pledge it made to U.S. President Donald Trump, who agreed to his 30-day pause on tariffs after Canada said it would appoint a fentanyl czar to stem the flow of the deadly drug across the border. Tom Perry, CBC News, Ottawa. The tariffs may be on pause, but many Canadian businesses are already feeling their impact. Already there are scaled-back plans and even layoffs, some of it linked to the closure of a little known loophole used for e-commerce.

Nisha Patel explains. It's been an absolute nightmare. Tyler McCombs is worried tariffs will turn off his US customers. His Calgary company Devin and Lang make specialty underwear. He can only source his raw material from China, which is now subject to a new 10% tariff on the products he ships south of the border. Another 25% duty could hit his goods next month. 25% to 35% tariff increases is

too much for most people to pay. Donald Trump's executive order would also end something called the de minimis exemption. It allowed businesses like McCombs to ship packages valued at less than $800 to the U.S. without the buyer having to pay extra tax. It is going to potentially hurt our ability to sell in the U.S. Trump said closing the loophole would crack down on fentanyl trafficking from China. It would also cut the advantage for Chinese e-commerce giants like Tmoo and Shien, which have put pressure on American retailers. Nisha Patel, CBC News, Toronto.

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. The former interpreter for Japanese baseball star Shohei Otani has been handed a jail sentence. Ipei Mizuhara was sentenced to almost five years in jail in a California courtroom Thursday after pleading guilty to stealing nearly $17 million from Otani's bank account last year. He's been ordered to pay restitution of $18 million, 17 of which will go to the Los Angeles Dodgers star, the other million to the IRS. Mizorara has been ordered to turn himself in to begin serving his sentence by March 24. And that is Your World This Hour.

For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.