The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/09 at 15:00 EST

Episode Date: February 9, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/09 at 15:00 EST

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But it's time to imagine what we can do with more. Join Scarborough Health Network and together, we can turn grit into greatness. Donate at lovescarborough.ca. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. We begin in Paris. We must build the infrastructure necessary

for speed that matches that of AIs developed. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is meeting with European leaders at an AI conference. Trudeau is hoping to advance Canada's economic ties with the EU as US President Donald Trump has also threatened tariffs on European Union goods. Ruben Zaioti is a political science professor at Dalhousie University. He says it's key that Trudeau secure new markets overseas for Canadian goods and resources. Both Canada and the EU are looking for trusted partners. But certainly in Europe, it's not that keen in being open to the free market. Sayori says now is the time for Canada to advance its negotiations with countries like

France and Belgium. Both have not signed on to CEDA, the free trade agreement between the EU for Canada to advance its negotiations with countries like France and Belgium. Both have not signed on to CEDA, the free trade agreement between the EU and Canada. The commissioner of the RCMP says he supports the appointment of a fentanyl czar. The position was part of a last minute deal between Canadian and American officials to get Donald Trump to hold off on tariffs. RCMP commissioner Mike Duhaime says he welcomes the change. I think there is a need for a czar. If there's a briefing to provide, there's so many government departments involved in the fight against fentanyl, how do you coordinate all that?

So I see this person as a person building relationships with the United States, a person building relationships with Mexico, who then is in a better position to brief the prime minister or cabinet. DuM says also that the $1.3 million that's going toward Canada's border security plan, also part of the deal to avert a trade war, is helping the RCMP ramp up its aircraft technology and radar at the border. President Donald Trump may not have resolved the Ukraine conflict on day one, as he promised on the campaign trail, but he still is interested in holding talks with the presidents of Ukraine and Russia,

possibly as soon as this week. Dominic Velaitis has the latest. Although nothing is confirmed, both Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky have strongly suggested talks are now in the pipeline, with a possible face-to-face meeting between the Ukrainian and American leaders this week in Washington. In an interview with the Reuters news agency, Zelensky said it was important he meet Trump before Russia's President Vladimir Putin. Zelensky wants security guarantees for Ukraine to top the agenda, measures that will deter

Russia from attacking Ukraine included in any ceasefire agreement. Trump meanwhile is keen to discuss the possibility of Ukraine granting the U.S. access to its rare earth minerals in exchange for providing funding for Kiev's war against Moscow. And while a formal meeting between Trump and Putin hasn't yet been announced, both Moscow and Washington have hinted that one is being organized. Dominic Vlaidis for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. In central India, health care workers carry an injured soldier into a hospital after security forces gunned down at least 31 Maoists in a massive operation. Officials say two soldiers were killed and two others were

injured. Central and Eastern India have been grappling with a decades-long insurgency by Maoists. The Communist rebel group says it's fighting to give poor Indian farmers more control over their land and its minerals. There will be no escape from the Ontario election during this evening's Super Bowl. Both the Liberals and the Progressive Conservatives are airing election ads during the game. Harneet Singh is with the digital marketing firm EOK Consults. He says the ads don't come cheap and don't come without risk. A lot of times the people who are tuning into these sports programs and stuff are turned off by people trying to talk about politics at a time when they're

enjoying a game. And it has happened a lot of times that an ad not done well can actually get the negative effect of being doing the Super Bowl. The progressive conservatives describe both their ads as positive, touting Ford as the best choice to fight tariffs, while one of the liberal ads attacks Ford for saying he was happy Donald Trump won the US election. And that's your World This Hour. You can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts updated every hour, seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Julie-Ann Hazelwood.