The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/16 at 01:00 EST

Episode Date: February 16, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/16 at 01:00 EST

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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 Claude Fague. While it was the game hockey fans had circled on their calendar as part of the inaugural

Four Nations Faceoff Tournament. And Canada and the US did not disappoint, turning in a spirited effort at the Bell Center in Montreal, renewing their storied hockey rivalry. Ed Kleiman reports. There was some booing of the Star-Spangled Banner, three fights in the game's first nine seconds, and a spectacular early goal by Edmonton Oilers superstar Connor McDavid. But in the end it was the Americans leaving no doubt they are the team to beat at the inaugural Four Nations faceoff as they defeated their Canadian rivals 3-1 Saturday night in

Montreal. Jake Gensel scored two goals to be named player of the game, while Dylan Larkin notched the game winner late in the second period. This was the first loss for Team Canada in a best-on-best men's tournament since the Vancouver Olympics in 2010. The remainder of the tournament will be played in Boston, beginning Monday afternoon when Canada faces Finland. If the Canadians win, they will likely earn a rematch with the U.S. in a championship game next Thursday. If they lose, their tournament is over.

Ed Kleiman for CBC News, London, Ontario. Canada first. That was the message today from Pierre Poliev. The Conservative leader held a rally in Ottawa surrounded by supporters and standing in front of a massive Canadian flag as Poliev outlined his vision for the country. Kate McKenna was there. Here Poliev's key message was he's the guy best positioned to take on Donald

Trump and build a stronger more economically resilient Canada. He dropped his slogan Canada is broken but kept a lot of his other messaging. He wants to cut taxes to make Canada more competitive. He wants to expedite permits to get more mining projects going. He's unequivocally in favor of a pipeline running from the West to East. All of these things, he says, would help make Canada more resilient in the face of Trump's tariff and annexation threat. And he says these are conservative ideas. In fact, the Trump tariff threats have proven conservatives right on everything.

It's true. It's worth mentioning though on retaliation, diversifying trade and trying to negotiate with the Trump administration. Poliev shares a lot of common ground with the liberal strategy. His goal will be trying to convince Canadians that he's best suited to handle whatever comes next. Kate McKenna, CBC News, Ottawa. The federal government's holiday tax break on certain goods comes to an end at midnight. The tax break on groceries, restaurant meals, gifts and children's clothing was introduced two months ago.

Jennifer LeBlond is a business owner in Calgary. She says her store did not see a boost in sales tied to the GST cut. And it took a lot of staff time and effort to sort through what did and did not get taxed. I think if you're going to really take a big chunk out of our taxation, it should be more productive. There's many more other areas I think that would have been helpful. Initial data from credit card processor Monera says in late December and early January, spending actually dropped compared to the previous year.

A 23-year-old man stabbed six people in southern Austria today. A 14-year-old was killed and the other is wounded in what police are calling a random attack. Police also say a food delivery driver intervened driving his car towards the attacker, preventing the situation from getting worse. The suspect was taken into custody. Police are investigating a motive for the attacks. Staff at two Loblaw stores in Abbotsburg, BC are now using body cams.

The company says the move is in response to increasing theft and violence. Brian Kinney is an associate criminology professor at Simon Fraser University and says better crime deterrent would be a larger staff presence, especially when it comes to the checkout area. They could also fix it without cameras and having more people back at tills, more people helping people in the aisle. These are where you're going to save loss through theft. Now Loblaw says it plans to expand the body cam program to stores across Canada.

And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague. ...