The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/28 at 13:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/28 at 13:00 EDT

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was asked about Donald Trump's claim regarding Canada's participation in his new Golden Dome missile defence system. Trump said yesterday it would cost Ottawa $61 billion US. Look, we're going to continue to do what's right for Canadians. That includes making sure that we are secure, that we are sovereign, and we're going to continue to manage our relationship with not just the United States but as we heard the Prime Minister say yesterday with the European Union. Prime Minister Mark Carney has said he wants Canada to join Rearm Europe by July 1st to reduce the country's dependence on the US for

weapons and munitions. The trillion dollar initiative is aimed at boosting European defense capabilities. Manitoba does have the highest fire activity in Canada so far this year. Kristin Hayward with the Manitoba Wildfire Service says 18 fires are burning across the province. She says notably almost all were caused by human activity. The fires have forced hundreds of people out of their homes and now some 5,000 people in the city of Flynn Flawn are being asked to be ready to leave at a moment's notice. Fires have also forced the evacuations of thousands of people in Alberta and Saskatchewan. The World Meteorological Organization has released its latest climate forecast. The world is seeing hotter temperatures and more intense weather in recent years.

And the report is dashing any hopes that the worrying trend is reversing. Science reporter Anand Ram explains. There's now an 80% chance of a new record high in global temperature in the next few years. Adam Scafe is head of monthly to decadal prediction at the WMO. His latest report, Looking Forward Until 2029, says the chances of another blisteringly hot year for the Earth is high, even pushing past 1.5 degrees above the pre-industrial era. This would trigger droughts in various parts of the world. Dry in the Amazon rainforest, wet in the Sahel desert,

the report also predicts much more heat for the Arctic, saying it will warm more than three times faster than the rest of the world over the next five years, troubling still the tiniest signal of an even deadlier future. That possibility is very faint, but it is now possible that we could even have a two-degree year. A decade ago, there was only a tiny signal that we'd have a year 1.5 degrees hotter than the pre-industrial average. That happened last year. Anand Ram, CBC News, Toronto. It's a mounting concern across the country and in particular in the Yukon.

Indigenous leaders are worried about waning support for their search for unmarked graves on the grounds of former residential schools. Katrin Pilkington has more from Whitehorse. They're saying that's false information. Sandra Johnson is an elder with the Yukon Residential Schools Missing Children Project. She's concerned federal funding cuts and growing residential school denialism will hinder the group's plans this year. Plans that involve ground-penetrating radar searches as well as archival research.

This really did happen, and it's still happening in subtle ways. Over the past year, the federal government has made cuts to organizations that support search efforts. Some indigenous researchers worry the cuts could fuel denialism. They say they're disturbed by some of the discourse they've seen on social media and heard from Canadian politicians. It just seems only recently that there's been this enormous pushback. That's Raymond Frogner, senior director of research with the National Center for Truth and Reconciliation. It's unclear what funding will look like under Prime Minister Mark Carney.

The federal government did not return a request for comment by deadline. Katrin Polkington, CBC News, Whitehorse. Russia is proposing to hold the next round of peace talks with Ukraine. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the talks will be held again in Istanbul next Monday. Lavrov says Russia has drawn up a document that sets out its position on all aspects of the peace settlement. The first round of talks took place earlier this month.

It did not produce the ceasefire Ukraine was hoping for, but both sides released 1,000 prisoners of war each as a result. And that is your World This Hour. war each as a result. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.