The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/27 at 10:00 EST

Episode Date: February 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/27 at 10:00 EST

What does a mummified Egyptian child, the Parthenon marbles of Greece and an Irish giant all have in common? They are all stuff the British stole. Maybe. Join me, Mark Fennell, as I travel around the globe uncovering the shocking stories of how some, let's call them ill-gotten, artifacts made it to faraway institutions. Spoiler, it was probably the British. Don't miss a brand new season of Stuff the British Style. Watch it free on CBC Gem. From CBC News, it's the World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings.

As of this morning, US President Donald Trump is saying a 25% tariff on all Canadian goods will go into effect this coming Tuesday. This latest update comes as Federal Public Safety Minister David McGinty is in Washington, insisting that Canada's lobby campaign against the trade action is going well. This effort to reach out and engage our American counterparts will continue. Our work on the border will continue. Our efforts to cooperate will continue.

They are yielding success. We are making progress. His statement today, Trump says again that the tariffs on Canada and Mexico are needed to force the two countries to crack down on illicit drugs crossing the border into the United States. Today is election day in Ontario. I just want to win. I don't look at the numbers.

I just want to win. I want to win a majority. It is time you had a government that truly respected you the way you deserve to be respected and treated. They didn't get it done, did they? No. We will get it done for the people across Ontario. People are struggling to get by, and Ontario Greens are listening.

From the last month of the campaign trail, that's the four party leaders, progressive conservative Doug Ford, New Democrat Merritt Stiles, Liberal Bonnie Crombie, and the Green Party's Mike Schreiner. Ford calls this snap election with more than a year and a half left in his government's mandate and the candidates have been forced to battle heavy snow and plunging temperatures in what was the province's first winter campaign in over 40 years. Manitoba premier Wab Kanu says investigators searching a Winnipeg area landfill have found what could be human remains.

The search of the landfill is being carried out as police believe it may contain the remains of two First Nations women murdered three years ago by a serial killer. John Northcott reports. Search teams will be back on the scene today likely with a new sense of purpose. The Prairie Green landfill is believed to be the resting place of Mercedes Myron 26 and Morgan Harris 39 The search task has been enormous taking months already covering an area the size of four football fields Involving search technicians and now with the discovery of the remains forensic anthropologists Manitoba RCMP and the coroner's office as the process of trying to make an identification is now underway

Manitoba premier Wab Kanu. Literally back-breaking work because you're hunched over for hours a day just speaks to the effort and the heart of people working on this project. Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Kyra Wilson said, quote, the discovery reinforces our commitment of ensuring that no family is left without answers and that justice is served for our stolen sisters. John Northcott, CBC News, Toronto. Canada's Crown and Indigenous Relations Minister is apologizing today to Inuit families for the government's role in the

Dundas Harbour relocations of the 1930s and 40s. The relocation was part of Canada's strategy at the time to maintain a national security presence in the Arctic, and it led to dozens of Inuit families being separated from their ancestral lands. Israel says Hamas has handed over the bodies of four Israelis who had been held hostage in Gaza. The handover took place today with Hamas confirming that 600 Palestinian prisoners had been released by Israel. Most of the detainees were returned to Gaza. Hamas

says the swap means it's now ready to negotiate phase two of the ceasefire. Academy Award-winning actor Gene Hackman has died. Hi, Popeye's here. Get your hands on your heads. Get off the bar and get on the wall. Come on, move. That's Hackman from the 1971 film The French Connection. His role as Detective Popeye Doyle earned him his first of two Oscars and launched a career that made Hackman one of the most respected and celebrated actors of his generation.

Police in New Mexico say Hackman and his wife were found dead yesterday in their home in Santa Fe. No cause of death has been established, but police have ruled out foul play. Gene Hackman was 95 years old. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.