The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/16 at 14:00 EST

Episode Date: February 16, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/16 at 14:00 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 Julianne Hazelwood. Much of Canada is dealing with harsh weather today. A winter storm is hammering Ontario and Quebec

and parts of Western Canada are experiencing extreme cold. Linda Ward reports. As fast as plows can clear the roads and sidewalks, they're covered again. Three to six centimeters of snow per hour with a total of 15 to 25 centimeters expected by this evening. Up to 40 or 50 centimeters for parts of Quebec. Ontario Provincial Police Sergeant

Kerry Schmidt is urging people to stay off the roads. You can't see the lane markings. We have had cars in ditches, some collisions happening as we speak. At Toronto Pearson Airport, there have been hundreds of flight cancellations and delays. Forecasters say they expect the snowfall in the last week to beat the total accumulation last winter. And central Canada isn't the only one coping with tough conditions. Much of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and parts of northwestern Ontario are under an extreme cold warning with temperatures hitting minus 40 and even minus 50 in

some places. Linda Ward, CBC News, Toronto. Mark Carney is the perceived frontrunner in the race to become the next liberal leader and prime minister. And today he spoke with CBC News' Rosemary Barton. She gives us a rundown of some of what he's planning to do if he wins. We talked a lot about what he would do with the consumer carbon tax, which is to get rid of it and instead use a carbon credit market that would have industrial polluters pay more and that would be then handed back to Canadians. He talked about a middle class tax cut

that he has yet to announce that would be broad based for Canadians right across the country. He talked about how we would be prepared to run a deficit in government as long as the money that would be used for that could be pumped back into the economy to try and get some growth going inside Canada. But he also talked about Donald Trump.

I have negotiated a number of situations in the past. I know how to manage crises. It is not a good idea to insert yourself in the middle of a negotiation, give conflicting signals. Other candidates are doing that. It's not a good idea to do that. Full stop. He has been reticent to get too detailed in terms of what he would do if he were prime minister to respond to the tariffs because he wants to leave that to the government in place. Rosemary Barton reporting from Ottawa. Today, tomorrow that is, is the deadline for Liberal leadership candidates to pay the final installment of their entry fee, the last $125,000.

Mark Carney, Karina Gould and Frank Bayliss say that they have paid, but so far we haven't heard from Christia Freeland or Ruby Dalla. In Austria, Interior Minister Gerhard Karner says the man suspected of killing a teenager and injuring five others in yesterday's knife attack was inspired by ISIS. Authorities say the 23-year-old Syrian, a silence seeker, was radicalized online and recorded himself swearing an oath to the allegiance of ISIS. Residents in the small city of Vilak gathered near the site of the stabbing, shocked and concerned.

Most of the people are shocked, I think. I did not think that it could be happening in this town, a peaceful town. It's really an international city. There are people from all around the world that work here, live here. Their future is here. And it's really bad that the locals will think that us can bring unsafety to their home. This comes six months after another plot to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna was foiled. Authorities say this suspect had also sworn loyalty to ISIS.

In Moscow, hundreds of people gathered at the grave of Alexei Navalny to mark the first anniversary of his death. They sang and laid flowers in memory of Russia's most prominent opposition leader. A former lawyer, Navalny rose to prominence with online blogs exposing what he described as the corruption of Vladimir Putin and his close supporters. Navalny was imprisoned by the Putin regime. He collapsed and died in an Arctic penal colony where he was serving a long-term jail sentence.

And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.