The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/03 at 12:00 EST

Episode Date: March 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/03 at 12:00 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, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. Unless Canadian officials can orchestrate a last-minute reprieve, it appears across-the-board tariffs on Canadian products entering the U.S. will go into effect as of tomorrow. But it is possible the size of the tariffs might still be negotiable. Megan Fitzpatrick has more now from Washington.

Last week Trump wrote on his social media that he's not satisfied in terms of the measures that Canada has taken to address his border concerns and that things were still on track to impose the tariffs tomorrow. Then yesterday his Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick did an interview on Fox News and while he indicated that Trump still intends to impose the tariffs he suggested the size of them may not be 25% after all. Lutnick indicated that things have improved somewhat at the border in terms of the illegal crossings but he was indicating the US is still not satisfied on the fentanyl front.

So this really could go down to the wire. Today will be a crucial day for Canadian officials to try and convince Trump not to follow through but if he is intent on it, perhaps negotiating down from the 25% or maybe carving out some exemptions. Again, it's still pretty unclear what might happen. Megan Fitzpatrick, CBC News, Washington. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is headed back to Ottawa after closing out his visit to Britain with an audience today with King Charles.

Trudeau was in London for a summit of, for a European security summit. And going into his meeting with the King today, Trudeau had said he would be raising issues such as Canadian sovereignty. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister's office has announced that Denis King has been appointed Canada's next ambassador to Ireland. King stepped down as Premier of PEI just 10 days ago

after almost six years in office. Cain will be following in the footsteps of another former PEI Premier, Pat Binns. Binns spent three years as the ambassador to Ireland after being voted out of office in 2007. It's another day of protest across Jerusalem with demonstrators today taking to the streets demanding that the Israeli government move forward on the latest ceasefire proceedings with Hamas. Sasha Pentresic reports.

With the ceasefire in doubt, protesters fill the streets of Jerusalem, worried that Israel's hard line against Hamas militants will restart war in Gaza. Israel has blocked all aid deliveries to the territory with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pressuring Hamas to accept a US proposal that would see more hostages released and a continued pause in fighting. Israel has accepted this plan, I accepted this plan, but so far Hamas has rejected it. Hamas is pushing for a permanent end to the conflict, as agreed in a ceasefire deal both sides signed six weeks ago,

one that's led to 33 hostages exchanged for almost 2,000 Palestinian detainees in Israel so far. Sasha Petrusik, CBC News, Jerusalem. Now to this year's Academy Awards, handed out last night in Los Angeles and right across the board it was the film, Anorah, that was the big winner. Eli Glasner has the details. While many had expected the Academy Awards to be a night of surprises, the Oscars played out pretty much as expected with Anorah winning five out of six nominated categories including

best picture, best director, best original screenplay, and best actress. Now that category, many expected Demi Moore to win for her role in The Substance, but it was Mikey Madison who took home the best actress prize for playing the sex worker named Anora. It's quite the result for a small film

with only a $4 million US budget. Samantha Kwan is the Canadian producer of Anora. It's quite the result for a small film with only a four million dollar US budget. Samantha Kwan is the Canadian producer of Anora. We made this with very little money but all of our hearts to all of the dreamers and the young filmmakers out there. Tell the stories you want to tell. Tell the stories that move you. I promise you, you will never regret it. Other big winners included Adrienne Brody for his role in The Brutalist and Zoe Zadania winning for her role as a lawyer in Amelia Perez. Eli Glaster, CBC News, Los Angeles. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.