The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/18 at 17:00 EST

Episode Date: February 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/18 at 17:00 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 is our. I'm Tom Harrington. The president and CEO of Toronto's Pearson Airport won't speculate on the cause of yesterday's plane crash, but Deborah Flint says the airport has been dealing with record snowfall. From last Thursday to Sunday, Toronto Pearson saw extreme conditions, two separate snowstorms. Flint says the two longest runways at Pearson remain closed due to the ongoing investigation.

The Delta Airlines plane crashed while attempting to land and rolled onto its roof. All 80 people on board survived. I cannot commend enough the crew, the flight attendants, pilots and our emergency responders for their quick and effective response. It's really, really incredible and when you see that aircraft, it just makes you really thankful for all the safety checks that go into running one of the world's safest air transportation

systems. Canada's Transportation Safety Board is heading up the investigation with assistance from American flight investigators. Montreal is still digging out after two back-to-back storms left more than 70 centimeters of snow. A 57-year-old man was found dead inside a running car this morning. Police say the cause of the death is unclear, but the circumstances have prompted experts to warn about the dangers of carbon monoxide. Vanessa Lee reports.

Every single time that we have a massive snowfall like this, there's calls that come in for carbon monoxide. Tudor Matei is a toxicologist with Montreal Public Health. He says it's important for drivers to make sure their exhaust pipe is cleared of snow before starting the car. If you turn on a car before the snow around that is cleared you can poison yourself or whoever's in the vehicle at the time because these fumes carbon oxide generally goes upwards because it's lighter than air so if it gets under the car it will seep into into the car through cracks from under.

The reminder comes after a 57-year-old man was found dead in his car this morning. First responders say it was running and covered in snow. Police say the cause of death is unclear. The coroner's office is now investigating. Vanessa Lee, CBC News, Montreal. Mark Carney has raised more money than any of his competitors in the race to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Elections Canada filings released today show the former Bank of Canada governor has received $1.9 million in donations. More than 11,000 people contributed

to his campaign so far. Krister Freeland appears to be trailing Carney, as well as Karina Gould and Frank Bayliss, but ahead of Ruby Dalla. Freeland insists the numbers don't paint an accurate picture of her haul in the first part of the race. Canada's rate of inflation has accelerated for the first time in three months. StatsCan says the consumer price index rose slightly to 1.9% in January. Gasoline and mortgage costs drove up overall prices. Peter Armstrong reports.

January's inflation was a bit all over the place. On the one hand, the federal GST holiday drove down prices. On the other hand, gasoline and shelter costs pushed overall prices up. The core measures that tend to strip out the more volatile components were also rising. In the end, inflation ticked up slightly, but RBC's senior economist Claire Phan says these inflation numbers are just one more injection of uncertainty into an already cloudy forecast. These are not the things that we want to see at this point, especially amidst all these uncertainties. So what the Bank of Canada will really want to do at this point is wait for more data. Chief, among those uncertainties is the looming threat of a trade war with the United

States. U.S. tariffs would drive down demand for Canadian products and likely push prices lower, but retaliatory tariffs from Canada would drive up prices, and that contradiction in forces makes the Bank of Canada's job even more complicated. Peter Armstrong, CBC News, Toronto. Leonard Peltier has been released from prison in Florida. The Native American activist spent nearly half a century behind bars for the murder of two FBI agents in 1975. His sentence was commuted by Joe Biden in the final hours of his presidency. For many, Peltier's imprisonment has symbolized systemic injustice for Native Americans.

Others criticized the former president's move. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tom Harrington. Thanks for listening.