The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/17 at 06:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/17 at 06:00 EDT

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I'm Joe Cummings. In the first of two stops today overseas, Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Paris. He's meeting first with French President Emmanuel Macron before flying to London for talks with the King and Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Catherine Cullen has more. Prime Minister Mark Carney has a jam-packed day of high-profile meetings in two capitals. He's visiting the restored Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral, then meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron to talk trade with an eye to deepening ties.

Then it's off to London to meet first with the king, then with Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The political discussion there is again about closer trade ties as well as security, both Canadian and European. Ukraine security will undoubtedly come up. On Sunday, Carney invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to come to Canada in June for the G7 Foreign Leaders meeting. One senior Canadian official says this trip is

about doubling down on international relationships with the backdrop of the US trade war. It's also a chance for the brand new Prime Minister to remind Canadians he has experience on the international stage knowing an election call is likely just days away. Catherine Cullen, CBC News, Paris. US President Donald Trump is defending his use of a law that dates back to 1798 to deport more than 200 Venezuelans. And these are criminals, many, many criminals, murderers, drug dealers at the highest level,

drug lords, people from mental institutions. That's an invasion. They invaded our country. In that sense, this is war. Speaking last night on Air Force One, that's Trump justifying his use of the Alien Enemies Act. It's a wartime power that allows the U.S. to deport non-citizens without legal recourse. On Saturday, a judge ordered the deportations be stopped, but the White House is insisting that order carries no legal authority. With the end now in sight, the Hudson's Bay Company, the historic Canadian retailer, is in court today, formally applying to liquidate all 80 of its remaining stores.

Lisa Shing reports. It's an institution Canadians say they'll miss. This was one of the last of the department stores that reflected a Canadian identity. That's too bad because I grew up with Hudson's Bay. A week ago Hudson's Bay Company applied for creditor protection hoping to keep the business afloat in some capacity. Then a dramatic development. It will start liquidating its entire business as soon as this week, putting more than 9,000 jobs at risk with no guarantee of severance or pension.

Toronto lawyer Andrew Hateney represents some employees. For the company to announce a potential liquidation so fast after filing before the court is unusually quick and very troubling. In its court application, Hudson's Bay said it was struggling because of the drop in store traffic post pandemic, people spending less and Canada-U.S. trade tensions. Pending court approval, the retailer plans to liquidate its inventory and close-up shop by June 15. Lisa Sheng, CBC News, Toronto. A series of deadly storms across the U.S. over the weekend, tornadoes, dust storms and wildfires has resulted in at least 39 deaths.

Steve Futterman has the latest. The worst of the violent and deadly storms is over. In states like Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri and Oklahoma, they are assessing the damage and retelling stories of how they survived. We jumped up and ran to the bathroom. This woman in Alabama is just happy to be alive. I knew it was bad when I heard this big kind of explosion and there was that large tree that came down right across where we were at.

This young woman spent hours trying to find her grandmother. We searched for her all night. We found her at 4 a.m this morning. Not every story has had a happy ending. Dozens have died. This man in Missouri lost a friend. She lost her life protecting her mother and then two other people further down on the same property. They lost their lives. In some places entire neighborhoods have been wiped out. You can't even tell that there was a house there. There's no structure of a house. Steve Futterman for CBC News, Los Angeles.