The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/07 at 16:00 EST

Episode Date: March 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/07 at 16:00 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 Juliane Hazelwood. A day after suspending some tariffs against Canada, Donald Trump is threatening to impose new ones, this time aimed at dairy and lumber.

And he warns they could come as early as today. Peter Armstrong has more details. Canada has been ripping us off for years. Donald Trump was reacting to today's jobs report when he suddenly veered off to complain about Canada's dairy and lumber industries. These two have been long-standing irritants between Canada and the U.S. Trump successfully negotiated more American access to the Canadian dairy sector in his first term. But under that deal,

American access was limited to just three and a half percent of Canada's total market. Today, it seems Trump feels his own deal was a ripoff. So back to tariffs. They'll be met with the exact same tariff unless they drop it. And that's what reciprocal means. And we may do it as early as today or we'll wait till Monday or Tuesday. It's just the latest in a series of head-spinning threats and reversals. Just for those keeping track, next week may see these tariffs on lumber and dairy,

separate tariffs on steel and aluminum, and yet more tariffs coming on April 2nd. Peter Armstrong, CBC News, Washington. In Ottawa. Today, I'm outlining the mitigation portion of our plan and the steps we are taking as a government to protect our workers and see them through the crisis. That's Employment Minister Stephen MacKinnon unveiling $5 billion in trade impact programs for workers and businesses caught in the trade war with the US. These measures will provide

stability to our sectors at a time of great unrest and uncertainty and more than anything else they will help keep more workers in their jobs, more businesses running and more factory floors humming. Programs like work sharing will help employers avoid layoffs, keeping workers on for fewer hours a week. As well, there are financing programs for exporters and small businesses and $1 billion in new financing for farmers through Farm Credit Canada. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the province and the country needs to remain steadfast

in the face of the Trump tariff threats. And while Edmonton pivots its response following the changing statements from Washington, Smith says there is one key issue for the US. What the Americans are worried about is Canada being a dumping ground for other outside of the agreement nations to be able to use our tariff-free status to get access to the US market. I can verify the oil and gas going through our pipelines is Alberta oil and gas. So this says there needs to be a federal election so whoever becomes prime minister will have a strong mandate to deal with the crisis.

Police in New Brunswick are expressing regret over a botched investigation that led to two wrongful convictions. St. John police have released an external report into the 1984 murder investigation. As Thomas Dagla tells us, they blamed Tunnel Vision on the part of detectives. Walter Gillespie and Robert Mailman each spent at least 18 years in prison for a murder they didn't commit. According to a new report by a former RCMP officer, police in St. John, New Brunswick focused solely on those two men when investigating that 1983 killing.

Gillespie and Mailman were convicted of second-degree murder, and last year a provincial judge confirmed their innocence. St. John Police Chief Robert Bruce says the investigators will face no consequence for the case. But there's nothing that would indicate that they would require any discipline or anything. I mean there was no malicious intent. Gillespie died last year, not long after their exoneration, and Mailman has terminal cancer.

More than 40 years after their wrongful conviction, police say they won't reopen the investigation. Thomas Daigle, CBC News, Toronto. Jose Lopez, one of the two men who pleaded guilty to murdering Raputaman Singh Malik, has been sentenced to life in prison with no parole for 20 years. The pair was paid to kill Malik in Surrey, BC in 2022. Malik was acquitted on charges he was involved in the 1985 Air India bombing that killed 331 people.

And that's your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.