The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/17 at 08:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/17 at 08:00 EDT

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With you, Mr. President, I want to ensure that France and the whole of Europe works enthusiastically with Canada, the most European of non-European countries, determined like you to maintain the most positive possible relations with the United States. Carney's comments suggest, Sarah, that the Trump administration's ongoing tariff campaign on Canada and on countries around the globe will dominate his talks today with Macron. But the war in Ukraine is also on the agenda, with Carney again pledging to maintain Canada's support for the Ukrainian war effort. From Paris, Carney will be flying to London for similar talks with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer,

and Carney will also have an audience at Buckingham Palace with King Charles. Speaking of the war in Ukraine, the White House has confirmed that US President Trump will be speaking tomorrow with Russian President Vladimir Putin. A US ceasefire agreement, which Ukraine has agreed to, is on the table, but Russia has yet to sign off on it. Meanwhile, President Trump is defending his use of a law that dates back to 1798 to deport more than 200 Venezuelans to El Salvador.

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 retailer, is in court today, formally applying to liquidate its 80 Canadian 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 Hatnay 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 Cheng, CBC News, Toronto. A series of deadly storms across multiple states claimed at least 39 lives over the weekend in the U.S. Steve Futterman has more. Futterman 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. Futterman We jumped up and ran to the bathroom. Futterman This woman in Alabama is just happy to be alive. Futterman 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 the house.

Steve Futterman for CBC News, Los Angeles. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.