The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/03 at 19:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/03 at 19:00 EDT

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 Julianne Hazelwood. Engines, steering wheels, door hinges, just a few of the auto parts that are subject to a 25% import tax in the US. Those tariffs come into effect today.

Canadian parts are exempt if they can prove enough US content. Chris Reyes reports from New York. Most auto parts coming into the US will be slapped with a 25% tariff. Those parts come from all over the world, including Canada. In an interview earlier this week, Ford's CEO Jim Farley said his company can't put out an entirely made-in-the-USA car. Keep it competitive and affordable compared to companies that import. We have to import certain parts.

For now, Canadian auto part imports are exempt under the Canada-U.S.-Mexico free trade agreement. Still questions abound about how to comply with President Donald Trump's new round of levies says Christian Bravo, a business analytics professor at Western University. You have to go through a process in order to get them to be compliant. It's not automatic. You need to actually go and certify that there is a certain percentage of North American-made parts. Chris Reyes, CBC News, New York. John Hogan is going to be the next premier of Newfoundland and Labrador. The lawyer and

cabinet minister won the race to lead the provincial Liberal Party. William Ping has more details. And in first place with 77.48 percent of the vote, John Hogan. Newfoundland and Labrador has a new premier designate. John Hogan was chosen to lead the Provincial Liberal Party and the province. 47-year-old made a name for himself as a lawyer before becoming the province's attorney general in 2021. And he's since worked as a minister in departments such as justice and health. Hogan says he'll bring a fresh perspective to the province's issues.

And we're ready to fight for our economy, to deliver health care for access to all, to provide support for seniors and increase our focus on families and affordability. Today's leadership convention came after Premier Andrew Fury's surprise resignation earlier this year. A provincial election has to take place before October. William Ping, CBC News, St. John's. Alberta's new Democratic Party has voted overwhelmingly to cut traditional membership ties with its federal counterpart.

Delegates in Edmonton voted to allow provincial members to opt out of joining the federal NDP. It's a move leader Nahed Nenshi campaigned on last year. He said the practice scared some Albertans away from the provincial party. Winnipeg police say the city has seen a spike in the number of counterfeit bills in circulation. In the first three months of this year police seized more than $12,000 in fake bills. That's twice as much as all of last year. Tyler Slobogian is a senior policy analyst with the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. He says some businesses are limiting high cash transactions to protect themselves. There's also been some, you know, some businesses that have resorted to additional signage as

well, you know, claiming that they won't, they'll refuse high denomination bills and they will limit kind of their large cash transactions. And I assume it does stem from the increase of counterfeit bills being put forward. Police say the counterfeit bills in 20, 50 and $100 denominations are coming into the country from outside of Canada. And if you look closely closely the words prop money are printed backwards on them. In Vancouver 25,000 people are expected to take part in a marathon on Sunday, the first major public event since the Lapu Lapu festival tragedy in the city. Eleven people were killed and dozens were injured. Mayor Ken Simm says events in the city are still safe. Excluding an

outlier each one goes through a security protocol. There's a risk assessment and I can tell you we are revisiting everything we do and the BMO Marathon has additional eyes on it. Sim says his own son will be running in the marathon and Vancouver police say 170 staff members will be on site. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julie Ann Hazelwood.