The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/03 at 06:00 EST

Episode Date: March 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/03 at 06:00 EST

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But it's time to imagine what we can do with more. Join Scarborough Health Network and together, we can turn grit into greatness. Donate at lovescarborough.ca. From CBC News, it's the World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings. With all eyes on Washington, Canadians are bracing for what could be

one of the most consequential weeks in recent history. The latest threat from US President Donald Trump has sweeping tariffs going into effect tomorrow on almost all Canadian goods entering the United States. Peter Armstrong reports. The drugs continue to pour into our country. And with that, US President Donald Trump said he would simply have to push ahead with sweeping tariffs against all goods coming from Canada, a 25% levy on almost everything, oil to be hit by a slightly lesser 10% tariff.

And yet, we've been here before. These tariffs were initially threatened on January 20th, delayed on Inauguration Day to February 1st, then February 4th, and finally the deadline was delayed by a month to March 4th, after Canada said it would make good on a promise to spend $1.3 billion on border security. They have done a lot so... Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Fox News on Sunday some progress has been made, but... There are going to be tariffs on Tuesday on Mexico and Canada, exactly what they are. We're going to leave that for the president and his team to negotiate.

The threat of tariffs has become a near permanent fixture on the economic landscape, and that is unlikely to change soon. Peter Armstrong, CBC News, Washington. Running alongside the tariff threats are Trump's ongoing comments about Canada becoming the 51st US state. And it turns out there is some support for that idea here in Canada and it's caught the attention of Fox News and other White House reporters. Lindsay Duncombe explains. There is a movement in Canada to join us. Want to get your thoughts on that and how that's proceeding?

So it's true. When a reporter asked that question of Donald Trump in the White House last Tuesday, a lot of Canadians did a double take. The U.S. president's threats to make Canada the 51st state have been overwhelmingly met with anger. But a small minority of Canadians would support joining the U.S. This is an itty bitty group. Shachi Kurl is the president of the Angus Reed Institute.

She says a poll done in January found 10 percent of Canadians would consider voting to join the United States. The numbers are slightly higher in Saskatchewan and Alberta and are most likely to be people who don't vote for any mainstream political party. Folks who are just not feeling particularly served by what's happening in Canada politically. No mainstream Canadian politicians support any effort to join the United States. Lindsay Dancome, CBC News, Vancouver. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is meeting today with King Charles at the King's Sandringham

estate. Trudeau is still in Britain following a weekend security summit that saw Canada joining a number of European nations and discussing what appears to be the Trump administration's move away from supporting the Ukrainian war effort. Now to this year's Academy Awards, which were handed out last night in Los Angeles.

And in what was a tight race right across the board, it was the film, Enora, that ends up the big winner. Steve Futterman has the details. On a night when there wasn't a clear favorite for Best Picture there was suspense until the very end when Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal opened the final envelope. And the Oscar goes to Anorah. Anorah, the story of an adult exotic dancer and sex worker who falls in love and marries the son of a Russian exotic dancer and sex worker who falls in love and marries the son of a Russian oligarch, won Best Picture along with a slew of other awards. And the Oscar goes to Mikey Madison.

Mikey Madison, who plays the title role, won Best Lead Actress. And Sean Baker, the man behind the film, won four Oscars as producer, along with best director, best film editing, and best screenplay. Adrian Brody won best lead actor for his role as a Holocaust survivor trying to deal with life after the war and the brutalist. Supporting acting awards went to Zoe Saldana for Emilia Perez and Ciaran Culkin for A Real Pain. Steve Futterman for CBC News at the Academy Awards in Hollywood.

And that is The World This Hour. For news anytime go to our website cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.