The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/27 at 11:00 EST

Episode Date: February 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/27 at 11:00 EST

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From CBC News, it's the World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings. With polling stations now open, today is Election Day in Ontario. A winter election call is rare in Canada, and as we hear now from John Northcott, the winter weather was definitely an issue over the course of the campaign. The winter election call is rare in Canada, and as we hear now from John Northcott, the winter weather was definitely an issue over the course of the campaign. It's the first provincial election in the depths of winter in decades. Massive snowstorm after massive snowstorm, socked in air travel, frustrated commuters, canceled classes and made for some challenging door knocking for candidates.

This as more bad weather is set to hit much of the province. Whether it's the snow and slush or voter apathy, Elections Ontario says advanced voting numbers are down, with just over 6% of those eligible making the early effort to make their choice. That's the weather. Now, there's the weather. Whether or not US President Donald Trump

imposes tariffs on Canadian products, the election was called by Doug Ford, ostensibly to fight the potential tariffs. About 35% of Canadians live in Ontario and many of them work in industries that would be hit hard. All of Ford's opponents oppose the possibility of tariffs, but argue that there are other important issues as well, healthcare, education and housing. John Northcott, CBC News, Toronto.

Latest update on Donald Trump's tariff threats has the U.S. president saying today that a 25 percent tariff on Canadian goods will go into effect this coming Tuesday. And Trump is again insisting the tariffs on both Canada and Mexico are needed to force the two countries to crack down on illegal drugs crossing the border into the United States. But Federal Public Safety Minister David McGinty says Canada is already meeting all the White House border demands. David McGinty, Federal Public Safety Minister, Canada

The evidence is irrefutable. Progress is being made. In my view, any tests that were put on this country on Canada in terms of showing progress and meeting standards for the border, I believe those have been met. Aaron Ross McGinty is in Washington again today with Canada's newly appointed Fentanyl Tsar, Kevin Brosseau. Now to Winnipeg. We have found what we believe to be somebody's loved one.

That is Manitoba Premier Wab Kanu confirming that forensic work is now underway to determine whether the remains found at a landfill outside the city belong to two murdered indigenous women. Search teams have been deployed to the landfill looking for the remains of at a landfill outside the city belonged to two murdered indigenous women. Search teams have been deployed to the landfill looking for the remains of Morgan Harris and Mercedes Moran. Both First Nations women were murdered three years ago by a serial killer. A ceremony is being held today in Arctic Bay, Nunavut, with the federal government formally apologizing for its role in relocating members of an Inuit community in the 1930s and 40s. Juanita Taylor has more.

Juanita Taylor, Inuit put on a ship from King 8, formerly Cape Dorset, and dropped off at Dundas Harbor, 1200 kilometers away. The Hudson's Bay Company, with the federal government's approval, recruited Lysha's father and 52 other Inuit from King 8, Pangnaktok and Pond Inlet in 1932. They were sent to Dundas Harbor to hunt, trap and trade. They were promised to come home in two years. But that didn't happen. Survivors say they suffered lasting impacts of loss from their land,

animals and families. That's why the Dundas Harbor Relocation Society has been fighting to get this apology. The federal minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations will be delivering the apology this afternoon at a public event. Juanita Taylor, CBC News, Arctic Bay, Nunavut. Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman has died. I never wanted to be anything but an actor. George Scott had a line in Patton that I think is appropriate. God help me, I love it.

I truly do. That's Hackman accepting a lifetime achievement award at the 2002 Golden Globes. Over his six decade career, Hackman appeared in more than 60 films and won two Academy Awards. Police in New Mexico say the 95-year-old 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. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.