The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/12 at 07:00 EST

Episode Date: February 12, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/12 at 07:00 EST

The following is advertiser content from Audible. What if achieving your dreams was just a matter of looking beyond yourself? In Super Attractor, Methods for Manifesting a Life Beyond Your Wildest Dreams, author Gabby Bernstein shows you how to embrace a spiritual approach to self-improvement and unlock the secrets to manifestation. Listen to a sample now. Living my life in daily devotion to this non-physical source of power has made me a super-attractor.

Being a super-attractor means that what I believe is what I receive. I can co-create the world I want to see by aligning with good-feeling emotions and directing them toward my desires. I can tap into an unlimited source of creative energy to contribute inspired ideas, offer wisdom, receive abundance, and feel free. And best of all, I can harness this power into a force for good in the world. Explore over 890,000 titles on audible.ca by signing up for a free 30-day trial and start listening today. From CBC News, it's the world this hour.

I'm Joe Cummings. With the clock ticking down on the Trump administration's tariff threats, another Canadian lobby campaign is underway in Washington. All 13 Canadian premiers are in the U.S. Capitol today, meeting with, among others, Republican members of Congress whose districts will feel the effect of any Trump trade action. As well, Federal Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc is also in Washington meeting with

Trade and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. Lutnick is a prominent supporter of Trump's tariff initiatives. Meanwhile, after two days this week at an AI summit in Paris, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is now in Brussels, and he'll be spending the day discussing trade and defense with Canada's European allies. Olivia Stavanovic reports. This is a moment of pride. This is a moment of pulling together. At this time of uncertainty, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is searching for solid ground,

allies who will stand up for each other, even as US President Donald Trump ratchets up pressure. We'll also be working with our international partners and friends. Trudeau will meet with the leaders of the European Union, who are facing similar threats. And we'll be responding in firm and proportionate way by countermeasures. Maros Seshkovich is the EU Trade Commissioner. He's vowing retaliation against the US if it imposes tariffs on its 27 member states.

This is the way to protect European interest, but it is not our preferred scenario. Trudeau is expected to coordinate a trade response with the EU. But first, the topic will be defence spending, when he meets with the Secretary General of NATO, Olivia Stefanovic, CBC News, Brussels. With both sides accusing the other of violating the agreement, the Israel Hamas ceasefire appears to be in jeopardy. Hamas claims humanitarian aid is being withheld from Gaza and says as a result this weekend's

hostage release will be delayed. It's a warning that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is calling unacceptable. Sasha Petrusic has the latest. If Hamas doesn't return our hostages by Saturday noon, Netanyahu said in a video address, the ceasefire will end, though he's been vague on how many hostages he expects. All of this has raised tensions among hostage families protesting with signs that read, don't blow the deal, and among the majority of Israelis who are desperate to see the remaining

76 hostages freed. You must release them, I would like to say, yesterday. We can fight the Hamas later. Mediators from Qatar and Egypt are scrambling to save the ceasefire. Sasha Petrusik, CBC News, Jerusalem. Now to Nova Scotia, where CBC News has carried out an analysis on the stability of the province's power grid. There were thousands of unplanned power outages across Nova Scotia last year, with temporary

blackouts reported almost every day. Nicola Sagan reports. When the power goes out, cattle farmer David Meister loses his watering system, fences, and barn cleaner. So caring for the animals at his ranch in New Ross, Nova Scotia gets a lot harder. Don't know when it's going to go out or for how long it's going to be back. A CBC News analysis identified more than 4,700 power outages in Nova Scotia last year, with a median 65 customers affected each time.

Nova Scotia power has been fined four times since 2019 by the province's regulatory body for falling short of some performance standards. The utility says trees on power lines, high winds and fires are top outage causes. Matt Drover is the senior director of energy delivery at Nova Scotia Power. Drover says in the next five years, Nova Scotia power is planning to spend $1.3 billion on power reliability upgrades. We're cutting trees every single day. We're replacing power poles.

Some in rural areas say the work seems to be paying off so far. Nicholas Sagan, CBC News, New Ross, Nova Scotia. And that is World this Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.