The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/15 at 16:00 EST

Episode Date: February 15, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/15 at 16:00 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 Julianne Hazelwood. Conservative leader Pierre Polyev was speaking at a flag day rally in Ottawa this hour. He's taking aim at US President Donald Trump and his attacks on Canada. America has leverage, and we have leverage. I will use that leverage. We will respond dollar for dollar. Yes, we will carefully target American goods

to maximize the impact on Americans while minimizing the impact on ourselves. But he's also taking aim at the apparent frontrunner in the race for the liberal leadership, claiming Mark Carney will not put Canada first. For more than 18 months, the party has a double-digit lead over the Liberals in national polls, but that has shifted recently. A Leger poll this week suggests a Liberal party led by Carney would be in a dead heat, with the Conservatives at 38 percent. Some Canadian cities are more vulnerable to U.S. tariffs than others. The Canadian Chamber of Commerce created a tool to assess which are at the highest risk.

Andrew DiCapua is principal economist at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. He says the calculation is based on two components. One of them is export intensity for cities across the country. So that's how much of their goods exports are headed to the United States as a share of their local economies. And then we also look at U.S. dependency. So how much of their overall exports are headed to the United States. The U.S. tariff Exposure Index listed St. John, New Brunswick as the most vulnerable city because of its oil refinery making up a sizable chunk of the city's exports to the U.S.

Calgary came in second and five cities in southern Ontario were in the top ten. A 23-year-old man has stabbed five people in southern Austria today. A 14-year-old was killed and others were wounded in what police are calling a random attack. Police also say a food delivery driver intervened driving his car toward the attacker, preventing the situation from getting worse. The suspect is in custody. Police say he's a Syrian national with legal residence in Austria. At an Israeli army base, at an Israeli army base. Sagi Dekel-Hen falls into his wife's arms learning the name of their youngest daughter

for the first time. She was born while he was in Hamas captivity. He's one of three Israeli men released today. They didn't look as emaciated as last weekend's released hostages but Israel's Ministry of Health says they face a complex process of rehabilitation. Their release was the latest under the Gaza ceasefire agreement and was accompanied by the release of 369 Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Gaza. The freed Palestinians were welcomed home by family and friends cheering around their

bus. Some were lifted on shoulders and paraded through the crowd. JD Vance's first appearance on the international stage left many fuming. The US Vice President scolded European countries at a Munich security conference, saying EU leaders silenced far-right voices and led in too many migrants. Dominic Vlaidis has more. Free speech, I fear, is in retreat. JD Vant's attack on Europe's stance on hate speech and the far-right stunned his audience

at this weekend's Munich Security Conference. Today Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz hit back, telling attendees it wasn't right for others to tell Germany and Europe what to do. And with Germans heading to the polls next weekend, Scholz's main political rival, the Conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz, also hit back. We respect the presidential elections and the congressional elections in the US, elections and the congressional elections in the US and we expect the US to do the same here. Free speech remains free speech and remains part of our open democratic society." And the European Union's foreign policy chief, Kaia Kales, said it was like the US was trying to pick a fight with Europe. Dominic Vellaititas for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. And that is your World This Hour.

For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.