The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/28 at 14:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/28 at 14:00 EDT

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Find an agent today at Desjardins.com slash business coverage. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julie-Ann Hazelwood. Thousands of residents in northern Manitoba are being told to get ready to leave their homes at a moment's notice. An increasing number of communities on the prairies are being threatened by wildfires. As Cameron McIntosh reports, the wildfire season is already starting to set records. The fire changed pretty radically. Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew calling the situation dangerous as a wildfire closes in on Flynn Flawn, about 5,000 people being told to be ready to go.

The Premier and fire officials also frustrated. On Tuesday, a water bomber couldn't hit the fire because of a civilian drone. So far, Manitoba has had the worst fires in Canada, already seeing triple the average area that burns in a typical fire season. In neighbouring Saskatchewan, troubling signs. Thousands of people now evacuated from at least a dozen northern communities and worksites. Shelley Lawrence left her northern lodge. It's the not knowing what's happening.

And in northern Alberta, about 1,200 also evacuated from the town of Swan Hills. With heat warnings in all three provinces, the fire danger is only bound to get worse. Cameron McIntosh, CBC News, Winnipeg. No, Scotia RCMP say the two children missing in Pictou County had been seen the day before their disappearance. Jack and Lily Sullivan are believed to have walked off their rural property northeast of Halifax earlier this month. Multiple searches of the woods near the home have turned up no sign of the children. Investigators have conducted formal interviews with more than 50 people and have more interviews planned and they're asking the public for more video footage from the area.

Survivors of the so-called Indian Boarding Homes Initiative are being urged to reach out to claim compensation. Between 1951 and 1992 the federal government paid non-Indigenous families to host students taken off reserve. As a result tens of thousands of Indigenous youth experienced trauma along with the loss of language and culture. Kate Rutherford reports. 71 year old Marilyn Godroe laughs nervously having never talked about the trauma of being relocated to a different community for high school. She's a member of Metogamy First Nation south of Timmins, Ontario.

The government placed her and her cousin with a young couple in Kirkland Lake in 1969. This was the worst night we ever had. That was the night their landlord threatened to burn the house down. After that, they were boarded in a home that wasn't any better. They are among an estimated 40,000 survivors eligible for compensation after a 2019 class-action lawsuit against Canada was settled out of court. Efforts are being made to connect with survivors. $50 million is set aside to

recognize loss of language, culture and to compensate for additional abuses. The deadline to file claims is February 2027. Kate Rutherford, CBC News, Metogamy First Nation. Defence Minister David McGinty says Canada will control its own defence spending. McGinty was asked about Donald Trump's claim regarding Canada's participation in his new Golden Dome missile defense 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 work closely with the EU to reduce the country's dependence on the US for weapons and munitions. A French court has sentenced a retired surgeon to 20 years in prison in the largest child sex abuse case ever to go on trial in France. 74-year-old Joël LeSquarnac was found guilty of raping nearly 300 patients. Most of them were children who were abused while under sedation. The abuse happened over a 25-year span dating back to 1989.

LeSquarnac is already serving a 15-year sentence for prior rape convictions. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.