The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/16 at 19:00 EST

Episode Date: February 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/16 at 19:00 EST

In Scarborough, there's this fire behind our eyes. A passion in our bellies. It's in the hearts of our neighbors. The eyes of our nurses. And the hands of our doctors. It's what makes Scarborough, Scarborough. In our hospitals, we do more than anyone thought possible. We've less than anyone could imagine.

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. The snow keeps hammering parts of Ontario and Quebec. Environment Canada says winter storm conditions

are expected to continue rapidly deteriorating. And to the west, much of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and parts of northwestern Ontario are under an extreme cold warning. Kobino Aduro tells us how the storm is hitting Montreal. There's a blizzard warning for Montreal. Environment Canada says it will be in place until Monday morning. The city is starting to clear roads with its snowplows and parking restrictions are in effect. It's also advising people not to go out on Sunday and even to work from home on Monday. At Montreal Trudeau Airport about 140 flights are cancelled. This is the second snowstorm the city is being hit with this week. City of Montreal's

spokesperson Philippe Sabarin says clearing the snow won't be as easy as past years. It's one of the biggest challenges the city is facing with two huge snowstorms in a row. As Montreal continues its snow clearing, it's not the end of this weather for the rest of Canada. The storm is pushing into Atlantic Canada and weather warnings are in full effect there. Kubino Duro, CBC News, Montreal.

In the US, at least eight people were killed in Kentucky after heavy rains triggered dangerous flooding overnight. Ten million people from Ohio to Mississippi are under flood warnings, and hundreds of thousands are without electricity. One of the frontrunners in the Liberal leadership race, Mark Carney, is criticizing the number of Canadian politicians involving themselves in efforts to stop the US from putting tariffs on Canadian goods. I have negotiated a number of situations in the past. I know how to manage crises. I know what you do in the order you can control

things. 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. Karney says the more strategic move is to leave the details to those leading the Canadian government. This past week all 13 premiers went down to Washington and talked to American politicians and staffers. And yesterday, Conservative leader Pierre Polyev spelled out how he would handle the situation. Someone painted a swastika on the side of a Montreal synagogue this weekend. Emmanuelle Beth Chalome says anti-Semitism is on the rise and asks the community to stand with them.

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante called the incident unacceptable and said police are investigating. The Munich Security Conference wrapped up today with European leaders noting a growing gulf between them and the US. On the first day of the gathering US Vice President JD Vance didn't focus on the issue of the Russian invasion in Ukraine and Trump's efforts to reach an agreement to end the fighting, instead using his time to scold Europe for its hate speech laws and for letting too many migrants and refugees in their countries. Conference chair Christoph Huytsken.

This conference started as a transatlantic conference after the speech of Vice President Vance on Friday. We have to fear that our common value base is not that common anymore. I'm very grateful to all those European politicians that spoke out and reaffirmed the values and principles that they are defending. No one did this better than President Zelensky." After US officials suggested European leaders would not be invited to attend talks on Ukraine, France said it would invite them to an emergency meeting focused on the issue. In Moscow,

on the issue. 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. Nomeni 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. Remember you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts updated every hour, seven

days a week. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.