The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/21 at 07:00 EST

Episode Date: February 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/21 at 07:00 EST

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From CBC News, it's the World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings. Let's go first to Boston. First half of the round, Mortimer waiting. Connor McDavid scores! Connor McDavid for Canada! That is Connor McDavid scoring the game winner last night in overtime as Canada

beat the United States to win the inaugural four nations face-off tournament. 3-2 was the final score in a thrilling final that all things considered was more than just a hockey game and that was abundantly clear even before the puck was dropped. Here's Canadian singer Chantel Krevetsic performing Oh Canada with the lyrics, patriotically reworked. True patriot love that only us command. With booze raining down, that's Krevietschik changing in All of Us Command to Only Us Command.

And her management team is confirming that the lyric change was most definitely in response to the US president's ongoing references to Canada becoming the 51st state. So this morning as Canadian hockey fans bask in this victory, it's worth noting that the two teams on the ice last night for the most part will face off again this time next year at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Italy. Meanwhile, a new Léger poll is suggesting that 70% of Canadians are in favor of dollar-for-dollar

retaliatory tariffs on the United States. U.S. President Donald Trump continues to threaten tariff action on imports from Canada and, as mentioned, has repeatedly pushed the idea that Canada should be the 51st state. This has started a patriotic wave across the country with the same poll finding that more than two-thirds of respondents are now actively buying more local Canadian products. It's now been confirmed that one of the bodies, Hamas' return to Israeli authorities this week, was not that of hostage Sheree Bebas. Bebas and her two young children were kidnapped

during the October 7 attacks, and Hamas is claiming they later died in an Israeli airstrike. Hamas says a mistake was made in returning the wrong body, but the Israeli government says there will be retribution. Sasha Petrusik has the latest now from Jerusalem. The forensic identification didn't match. Israeli military spokesman, Nadav Shoshani.

We've checked time and time again and we came to the result that it's not Shiri, that it's not any of our hostages. It is apparent it is just an anonymous person from Gaza. The military also says the two boys were murdered a month after the kidnappings, not killed in airstrikes like Hamas says. Hamas will pay the price, says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for this cruel and evil violation of the ceasefire agreement. Hamas now says bodies were mixed up after an airstrike on the location where hers was being held in the rubble of Gaza. It's still sinking in

on the streets of Israel. Sasha Petrusik, CBC News, Jerusalem. Eager to establish exactly what the Trump administration has planned for the Ukrainian war effort, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky today is meeting again with the special U.S. envoy to Ukraine. Anna Cunningham has more now from London. Jones missiles in the sky above Ukraine overnight. Russian attacks continue as President Donald Trump's special envoy to Ukraine, retired Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg, was in Kiev. He met with President Volodymyr Zelensky Thursday. In front of the cameras a welcoming handshake but then their joint news conference was swiftly cancelled. It's understood that request came from Washington. Trump's

words in recent days seem to indicate the relationship with Ukraine is breaking down. Zelensky has refused to sign a deal giving the US access to half of Ukraine's natural minerals including lithium and titanium. He says the draft paperwork lacks security guarantees. President Zelensky says talks with Keith Kellogg restored hope. He says strong agreements with America are needed. Agreements that will really work. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London. And that is