The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/09 at 20:00 EST

Episode Date: February 10, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/09 at 20:00 EST

In Scarborough, there's this fire behind our eyes. A passion in our bellies. It's in the hearts of our neighbors. The eyes of our nurses. And the hands of our doctors. It's what makes Scarborough, Scarborough. In our hospitals, we do more than anyone thought possible. We've less than anyone could imagine.

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. Donald Trump is rattling the cage of world trade again. The US president announced no more new tariffs

that would apply on all countries, including Canada and Mexico. Instead, he's not joking when he says he wants Canada The US President announced no more new tariffs that would apply on all countries including Canada and Mexico. Instead, he's not joking when he says he wants Canada to become the 51st state. Nick Harper has more. US President Donald Trump says he'll announce on Monday new tariffs of 25% on any steel and aluminium entering the United States. And speaking to reporters on board Air Force One, he promised there's more to come this

week. Announcing probably Tuesday or Wednesday at a news conference, reciprocal tariffs. Also on Sunday in a Fox News interview, President Donald Trump was asked what more Canada and Mexico need to do before the 30-day tariff deadline expires. Is that good enough? No, it's not good enough. Something has to happen, it's not good enough. Something has to happen. It's not sustainable.

But there were no specifics from the president. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggested Trump's promise to make Canada America's 51st state should not be underestimated, something Fox News' Brett Baier asked him about. Is it a real thing? Yeah, it is. I think Canada would be much better off being a 51st state. We lose 200 billion dollars a year with Canada and I'm not going to let that happen. Nick Harper for CBC News, Washington. 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 avert a trade war. 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, person building relationships with Mexico, who then is in a better position to brief the prime minister or cabinet.

Duhaime also says the $1.3 million that's going toward Canada's border security plan, also part of a deal to get Trump to hold off on tariffs, 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's still interested in holding talks with the presidents of Ukraine and Russia, possibly as soon as this week. Dominic Volaitis 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 US 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 Vleitis for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. There's 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 is the best choice to fight tariffs. While one of the liberal ads attacks Ford's for saying he was happy Donald Trump won the U.S. election. Residents of Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula are under a blizzard warning this evening.

Environment Canada says the area could see between 25 and 40 centimeters of snowfall between now and tomorrow afternoon and reduce visibility with wind gusts of up to 110 kilometers an hour. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.