The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/27 at 18:00 EST

Episode Date: February 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/27 at 18:00 EST

1942, Europe. Soldiers find a boy surviving alone in the woods. They make him a member of Hitler's army. But what no one would know for decades, he was Jewish. Could a story so unbelievable be true? I'm Dan Goldberg. I'm from CBC's personally, Toy Soldier. Available now wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Tom Harrington. It's been an emotional time for the families of two murdered First Nations women.

Potential human remains were found in a landfill near Winnipeg yesterday. The discovery comes after a long battle to have the site searched. Karen Pauls has more. They didn't deserve to sit in that landfill for as long as they did. Jordan Myron's sister is one of the First Nations women murdered by a serial killer in 2022. It's believed the bodies of Mercedes Myron and Morgan Harris ended up in a dump just outside of Winnipeg. Crews began sifting through the landfill in December and yesterday potential human remains were discovered. So if people would have just listened to us and realized that they are there, this could have happened a lot sooner and that's what really angers me.

This search has been controversial. The previous conservative government lost the last provincial election in part because it vowed not to search the landfill. That couldn't be done, and that it wouldn't be done. Melissa Robinson is Morgan Harris' cousin. You know what? To hell with all you guys, because it got done. It could take two weeks to confirm if these are human remains and if so, whose remains they are.

Karen Pauls, CBC News, Winnipeg. The Crown Indigenous Relations Minister apologized today to Inuit families for a decades-old government operation. In the 1930s and 40s, the Dundas Harbor relocations were part of Canada's strategy to maintain a national security presence in the Arctic, but it led to dozens of Inuit families being separated from their ancestral lands. Manitoba is the first province to opt into the federal government's national pharmacare program, but whether the deal will be honoured may depend on who wins the next federal election. David Thurton reports.

What is special about Manitoba is the extraordinary work that the Manitoba government has done. Federal Health Minister Mark Holland announcing Canada's first pharmacare deal, a four-year agreement with the Manitoban government worth more than $200 million. The province already covers birth control, but Ottawa is funding diabetes meds and devices, along with hormone replacement therapy for women in menopause. Uzoma Asigwera is Manitoba's health minister. Make sure that menopause drugs are available for women and those who need it in our province.

A measure that's at risk as a federal election looms. It's up to the conservatives. Now they will literally be taking medicine from people's hands. Manitoban residents won't receive coverage for the majority of these free meds until June, leaving it up to a future government to follow through. David Thurton, CBC News, Ottawa. The Public Safety Minister says Canada has done a lot to tighten security along the border with the U.S.

The evidence is irrefutable. Progress is being made. David McGinty is in Washington with the new.S. The evidence is irrefutable. Progress is being made. David McGinty is in Washington with the new national Fentanyl czar. They are promoting Canada's efforts to combat cross-border drug smuggling. McGinty says he's convinced they got the attention of the Trump administration. As part of the Team Canada group that's responsible for dealing with the border and the Fentanyl crisis, we do know that we're making enormous progress. We do know that we're communicating to different folks here in the administration, and they

are telling us that's enormous progress. Donald Trump has threatened tariffs on Canada and Mexico, unless the two countries crack down on fentanyl smuggling. Police in Santa Fe, New Mexico have opened an investigation into the deaths of actor Gene Hackman and his wife. The bodies were found in their home yesterday, along with that of their dog. Sheriff Adan Mendoza says the couple had been dead for some time. There was no immediate sign of foul play.

I haven't ruled that out yet. This is an investigation, so we're keeping everything on the table. I think the autopsy is going to tell us a lot and any evidence that we collect, but I haven't ruled any of that out yet. Mendoza says the residence was checked for natural gas and carbon monoxide, but no sign of a leak was found. Gene Hackman was one of Hollywood's most respected actors.

He appeared in dozens of films and earned two Oscars for roles in The French Connection and Unforgiven. Gene Hackman was 95 years old. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tom Harrington. Thanks for listening.