The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/08 at 18:00 EST

Episode Date: March 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/08 at 18:00 EST

What does a mummified Egyptian child, the Parthenon marbles of Greece and an Irish giant all have in common? They are all stuff the British stole. Maybe. Join me, Mark Fennell, as I travel around the globe uncovering the shocking stories of how some, let's call them ill-gotten, artifacts made it to faraway institutions. Spoiler, it was probably the British. Don't miss a brand new season of Stuff the British Style. Watch it free on CBC Gem. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.

We begin in Winnipeg. I made a commitment to these families that we were gonna do something for them and we've delivered on it. Manitoba Premier Wapkanu has been meeting with the families of four indigenous women killed by a serial killer. Human remains were found in a landfill near Winnipeg and now are identified as Morgan Harris, one of the victims. Her family and the other families pushed for years to get the authorities to agree to search for their loved ones. When Premier Wab Kanu was elected last year, he ordered the search.

This is what we wanted. This is what we set out to do, was to bring home Morgan Harris and Mercedes Myron. We didn't know whether or not we would be able to accomplish. We knew that we were going to try. We can now say that we've been able to deliver on that attempt and I hope it helps to bring closure and healing. Canoe says he hopes the identification process on a second set of human remains will be complete in the next couple of weeks. Toronto police are still searching for three suspects in a mass shooting at a pub last night.

Police say the suspects entered the bar and started shooting indiscriminately. Twelve people are injured, six with bullet wounds, but none have life-threatening injuries. Police Superintendent Paul McIntyre. Our investigation will tell us whether or not this pub was targeted for a particular reason. Maybe somebody was inside that somebody didn't like. Maybe somebody had a beef with the business. We don't know. McIntyre says two of the men were carrying handguns while the third was armed with an assault rifle. All are still at large. Yesterday was the pub's opening night.

The U.S. isn't the only country threatening to put tariffs on Canadian goods. China announced today it will impose tariffs worth $3.6 billion on some agricultural and seafood products. As Olivia Stefanovich reports, it's expected to hurt Canadian farmers. Well, to say that people are anxious would be an understatement. If farmers didn't already have enough to worry about, the head of the Canola Council of Canada says his industry is taking another major hit. China is placing a 100% levy on canola, a move that Chris Davison says will be hard to absorb

while producers are also grappling with US tariffs. Those two markets together represent over 75% of Canadian global canola trade. The move comes after Canada placed a 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles, a decision the federal government took last fall following similar action by the European Union and the Biden administration in the U.S. Along with canola, China is placing a 25 percent levy on Canadian pork and some seafood imports, along with another 100 percent tariff on pulses.

Olivia Stefanovic, CBC News, Ottawa. The Vatican says Pope Francis is responding well to treatment for double pneumonia, showing what they called gradual slight improvement. But the 88-year-old Pontiff is still listed as guarded, in guarded condition. He entered a Rome hospital just over three weeks ago with breathing difficulties. In most of the country, it's time to spring forward and institute daylight saving time. That means moving your clocks forward an hour. Mike Antle is a psychology professor. He points out there are several studies showing the health risks associated with disrupting sleep patterns.

We have a circadian clock in our brain that regulates all the daily rhythms of our body. One of the things that it does is it gets your body ready for waking up. With the time change what they find is people are more likely to have an on-the-job accident next week, they're more likely to have a car accident, more likely to have a severe medical problem if they're at risk. There are parts of the country that don't switch to daylight saving time, including Yukon and areas in Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec, B.C. and Nunavut. Fire departments suggest this is a good time to check the batteries in your smoke detectors. And that is your World This Hour.

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