The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/03 at 23:00 EST

Episode Date: March 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/03 at 23:00 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, the world this hour. I'm Neil Herland. U.S. President Donald Trump says the tariffs are coming after months of uncertainty and delay. Trump says he will impose a 25% tariff on any imports

from Canada and Mexico starting Tuesday. Katie Simpson has more. This is a very big day for a lot of reasons. U.S. President Donald Trump confirming the worst-case scenario for Canada and Mexico. At an event celebrating a new investment in US semiconductor production, he announced he'll make good on his tariff threat. Very importantly tomorrow tariffs 25% on Canada and 25% on Mexico. Trump offered multiple reasons for his decision, first saying he wants auto sector jobs to leave Canada and Mexico with new plants to be built in the U.S.

He then returned to his original reasoning, blaming his biggest trading partners for allowing Fentanyl to enter the U.S., declaring he's not open to negotiating. No room left for Mexico or for Canada. No, the tariffs, you know, they're all set, they go into effect tomorrow. All of it has the feeling of an existential Groundhog Day.

Another deadline, mixed messages from Washington and a sense of dread. This is the new normal. Katie Simpson, CBC News, Washington. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued a statement tonight about the U.S. tariffs and he outlined Canada's response. Catherine Cullen has reaction from Ottawa. The Prime Minister said in a statement late Monday that there is no justification for new US tariffs. He also said that Canada will respond immediately with counter tariffs

and that there's also discussion but additional measures to put pressure on the United States that are not directly related to tariffs. Ontario has said phase one of that could be an export charge on energy to the United States. The Prime Minister closed by saying that not only will these tariffs hurt Americans, but they violate the very trade agreement, the new NAFTA, the USMCA, that was negotiated by President Trump in his last term. Catherine Cullen, CBC News, Ottawa. There's a major development tonight involving the war in Ukraine.

The U.S. is pausing military aid to Ukraine just days after a testy meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. As Katie Nicholson reports, the White House is still pushing for a deal to end the war. Days after the diplomatic rupture that put a deal between the US and Ukraine on ice, a hint all is not lost. I think everybody has to get into a room, so to speak, and we have to make a deal. And the deal can be made very fast. And yet, still seething from Friday's Oval Office clash with Ukrainian President Volodymyr

Zelensky, US President Donald Trump now pausing all military aid to Ukraine until he sees a good-faith commitment to peace. Earlier in the day, those tensions clearly bubbling to the surface. Now maybe somebody doesn't want to make a deal, and if somebody doesn't want to make a deal, I think that person won't be around very long. For his part, Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky signaled a willingness to work together, saying Ukraine, Europe and America can ensure decades of stability but to achieve this they must be constructive. Katie Nicholson, CBC News, Toronto.

Police in Germany say there does not appear to be a political motive in Monday's deadly car ramming in Mannheim. At least two people were killed, several others injured, after a car drove into a crowd. It happened as the city was preparing for a week of carnival celebrations. A 40-year-old German national is now in custody. In recent months, vehicles have been used as weapons and several acts of violence in Germany. A former Manitoba judge will be leading the third-party investigation into the procurement process used by Alberta government and Alberta Health Services.

Raymond E. Wyant is a former chief judge of the Provincial Court of Manitoba. Premier Danielle Smith says she hasn't seen any evidence of wrongdoing. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neal Herland.