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

Episode Date: February 11, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/11 at 00:00 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 Neil Herland. U.S. President Donald Trump is announcing 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports to the U.S.

As Richard Madden reports from Washington, it's the latest step in a trade fight that could hurt Canada's economy. This is the beginning of making America rich again. President Donald Trump says his sweeping tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports will boost domestic production and protect jobs in America's Rust Belt. These new levies come one week after Trump paused separate 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico over concerns of border security and fentanyl until March the 4th.

And these new tariffs take effect the same day. Canada supplies nearly 40 percent of America's steel imports. We don't need it to be made in Canada. We'll have the jobs. That's why Canada should be our 51st state. We'll bring back industries and we'll bring back our jobs and we'll make America's industry great again. Trump slapped tariffs against Canadian steel and aluminum back in 2018, justifying them as a national security issue.

It took nearly a year for those tariffs to be lifted, and Canadian officials are hoping for a similar outcome. Richard Madden, CBC News, Washington. The tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports are drawing sharp criticism from business and political leaders in this country. In a statement tonight on the platform X, Canada's trade minister, François-Philippe Champagne,

called the tariffs unjustified. Quebec's aluminum industry will be hit especially hard. Thomas Daigle has more. Speaking to a business crowd near Montreal, Quebec's economy minister Christine Fréchette says US President Donald Trump is attacking the province's businesses and workers. Premier Francois Legault is calling on the North American Free Trade Agreement to be renegotiated immediately. All of it, as Trump's plan for renewed tariffs on US aluminum imports sends shockwaves through

Quebec where 90% of Canada's aluminum is produced. Flavio Volpe with the Prime Minister's Council on Canada-US Relations is among officials heading to Washington to highlight how tariffs will hurt Americans too. One of the biggest customers of that aluminum is U.S. defense interests. Already, Quebec's aluminum industry is considering ramping up exports to Europe rather than being so reliant on Canada's southern neighbor. Thomas Daigle, CBC News, Toronto. Meantime, U.S. President Donald Trump says if the Palestinian militant group Hamas doesn't release all the Israeli hostages by Saturday, the shaky Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal should be cancelled.

I'd say they ought to be returned by 12 o'clock on Saturday and if they're not returned, all of them, not in drips and drabs, not two and one and three and four and two. Saturday at 12 o'clock and after that I would say all hell is going to break out. Police in Surrey, B.C. have shot and killed a person near a high school. It happened Sunday afternoon and the school confirms a student is dead. As Rafferty Baker reports, B. reports BC's police watchdog is now involved. A memorial has been built here people have been coming by to drop off flowers. Officers say they were responding to a call about a person with a gun. CBC News has viewed footage from a

nearby doorbell surveillance camera. It shows a person walking across the yard here, pointing what appears to be a handgun at his head. You can hear police shouting and asking the person not to harm himself. At one point the person turns and points what appears to be a handgun in the direction of the officers. The footage shows two officers taking cover behind an RCMP SUV. You can hear what sounds like two gunshots in quick succession before several officers rush into the frame toward the person. Students at Clayton Heights Secondary School tell CBC News the victim was a grade 10 student there. The school put out a statement confirming that a student there had died over the weekend. Rafferty Baker, CBC News, Surrey. And that is your World This Hour.

For CBC News, I'm Neil Herlind.