The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/10 at 11:00 EST

Episode Date: February 10, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/10 at 11:00 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, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. U.S. President Donald Trump says he will be imposing 25 percent tariffs today on steel and aluminum imports entering the United States. And the countries he's expected to target include Canada. JP Tasker reports. It's terrible news for Canada's steel and aluminum sectors. Canada is the largest supplier of steel to the United States.

If these tariffs go into place, you'll likely see a dip in how much of this product we sell to the U.S. Canadian companies may have a hard time competing on price now that U.S. importers will have to pay a 25% tax to bring in those goods. Here's Catherine Cobden, she's the president and CEO of the Canadian Steel Producers Association. We are very highly integrated, very dependent on each other economically, and tariffs will have devastating effects on both sides of the border. Canada has been down this road before. Trump imposed similar tariffs in 2018.

They were in place for a year and the data was bleak. Aluminum exports dropped by 50 percent, steel 30 percent according to statscans. So this could be a blow to industries that employ more than 35,000 people. JP Tasker, CBC News, Ottawa. Meanwhile, President Trump is still openly discussing Canada becoming the 51st state. Trump mentioned it twice over the weekend in two separate media appearances, and today, Stéphane Dionne, Canada's ambassador to France, is suggesting those comments may be in violation of international

law. Livia Stevanovic has more from Paris. Canada is not a viable country. Show me a viable country. At the Canadian embassy in Paris, Ambassador Stephane Dion fielded questions dominated by US President Donald Trump's escalating threats towards Canada and neighbouring Greenland. You know that according to international law, it's not only to invade the neighbour that is against international law and the charter of the UN, it is to threaten.

So we are against that of course. Dionne wouldn't say whether the United Nations should launch an investigation into the US, but he made a point of re-emphasizing his suggestion for others to ponder. The international law said you don't threaten your neighbors. Trump claimed Canada is not a viable country without U.S. trade and warned it can no longer depend on Washington for military protection, all of which Dionne dismissed, saying if you don't defend Canada, you can't defend the U.S. Olivia Stevanovich, CBC News, Paris.

Pierre Poliev says a conservative government would build a permanent military base in Nunavut. Along with establishing CFB Iqaluit, Poliev says his government would double the current number of Canadian Rangers and purchase four additional polar icebreakers. And he already has a plan for funding his northern initiatives. All of these improvements will be funded by dramatically cutting foreign aid. We've got our own backyard to protect. We can't be sending billions of dollars to other places. Often, if much of it is wasted and stolen and swallowed up by bureaucracies that act against our interest. Poliev is in Akaluit for his first visit to the region since winning the conservative

leadership two years ago. Opening statements are scheduled today in the trial of the man accused of attempting to murder novelist Salman Rushdie. Rushdie was stabbed more than a dozen times while appearing at a literary event in New York State in the summer of 2022. He survived but lost the sight of his right eye. Here's Rushdie speaking to CBC Radio's Nalai Ed. Yeah, it's weird, isn't it, that the thing you most fear is what happens.

I've always had a fear of blindness. I'm thinking about, you know, if you're asked which of your senses could you do without, I think sight is, for me, the most important. The accused, 27-year-old Hattie Matter, is charged with attempted murder and assault. I think sight is for me the most important. The accused, 27-year-old Hattie Matter, is charged with attempted murder and assault. Literary prankster and philosopher Tom Robbins has died. Robbins charmed and enlightened millions of readers with such adventures as Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Another Roadside Attraction.

Robbins published eight novels and a memoir and was celebrated for his ability to look fondly at the world with deadpan absurdity. Tom Robbins was 92 years old. And that is The World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings.