The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/12 at 15:00 EST

Episode Date: February 12, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/12 at 15:00 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, the world this hour. I'm Tom Harrington. Canada's premiers will be walking the halls of power in Washington later today. They have a meeting with some of Donald Trump's senior advisors at the White House. They're in the US Capitol this week to try and convince US lawmakers the president's threatened tariffs will hurt American consumers. Kate McKenna has more. Yes, my understanding is there's active work happening on a meeting with the White House. Speaking in Washington, British Columbia Premier David Eby teased an afternoon

meeting in the White House, though neither he nor New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt would confirm who they're meeting with. It's all getting worked out right now. It's a surprise. I'm not sure if all the premiers are going or not, I have to clarify. In a statement, the group representing all premiers says they're meeting with senior advisors to the President of the United States. Because of this, all other engagements have been cancelled this afternoon. Federal and provincial sources say they're set to meet with Deputy

Chief of Staff for Legislative Affairs Jim Blair. Premiers will be pushing Canada's main message that tariffs are painful and unnecessary. Kate McKenna, CBC News, Washington. Canada's Fentanyl Tsar says he's committed to stopping the drug flow over the Canada-U.S. border. Kevin Brosseau's new role was created in part to appease the concerns of the president. If it's one pound, ten pounds, we all know the amount of deaths that that possibly could represent. This is a national security and a public safety crisis. We should be focused on eliminating the scourge that is fentanyl in this country and in the United States. Less than 1% of the fentanyl trafficked into the U.S. actually comes from Canada.

Meantime, Donald Trump says he had phone calls today with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine. White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt. He told me to tell all of you they were very good calls, they were very positive, and the administration is wholeheartedly committed to a peace deal to end once and for all the Russia-Ukraine war. In social media posts, Trump says both men want to make peace. He says Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio will be in Munich on Friday to start planning those talks.

Zelensky posted about the call, saying they discussed the negotiations as well as Ukrainian economic and resource cooperation with the United States. Another of the president's more controversial cabinet nominees won Senate approval today. Yeas or 52, nays or 48, nomination is confirmed. Tulsi Gabbard will be the director of national intelligence, with all Republicans voting yes, Democrats voting no. Gabbard has no experience in intelligence and was criticized as someone who cozied up to dictators. In the past, she'd had private meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin

and former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. After years of steady increases, a new report says vehicle thefts in Canada have declined. But as Jamie Strasham reports, experts say, there is much more work to do. When it comes to vehicle theft in Canada, there hasn't been a lot of good news in recent years, but new numbers from Equite Canada, an insurance watchdog group, shows a drastic reduction.

We're starting to see a decline. In 2024 is the first time we've seen a decline in the last four years, So it is very promising. Equites Brian Gass says 57,000 private vehicles were stolen in Canada last year, down from 70,000 in 2023, a near 20% drop. Alberta has the highest rate of per capita theft. Ontario and Quebec still have the most cars stolen, but also saw the biggest reductions. This is enforcement. So it's reactionary. We still have to get to the prevention phase,

making the vehicle harder to steal in the first place, really to have sustained decline in auto theft. Guess as parking your car in a garage if possible using a steering wheel lock and a tracking device are all effective tools to deter theft. Jamie Strash in CBC News, Toronto. Most parts of Ontario are about to get hit with another snowy blast of winter. Environment Canada has issued winter storm warnings for much of the region. That includes from the Greater Toronto Area and Ottawa to as far north as Sudbury. They can expect 15 to 20 centimetres of snow.

While in southern Quebec, as much as 30 to 40 centimeters is expected overnight. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tom Harrington. Thanks for listening.