The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/28 at 15:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/28 at 15:00 EDT

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Mark Carney has made his first appearance in question period as Prime Minister. Conservative House Leader Andrew Scheer stood in for party leader Pierre Pauliev. He wasted no time in attacking Carney, questioning the effectiveness of Canadian tariffs imposed on U.S. goods. Carney shot back. Our tariffs have maximum impact on the United States, minimum impact on Canada. And we are dedicating all the revenues from those tariffs to supporting the workers and businesses affected by the

unjustified American actions. Yesterday's throne speech outlined the government's spending plan worth nearly half a trillion dollars. Manitoba does have the highest fire activity in Canada so far this year. Kristin Hayward with Manitoba Wildfire Service says 18 fires are burning across the province. She says notably almost all were caused by human activity. The fires have already forced hundreds of people out of their homes and now some 5,000 people in the city of Flintlawn are being asked to prepare to leave at a moment's notice. Premier Wapkanu is calling on residents and businesses to consider opening their doors

to evacuees. For Manitobans and the rest of the province now is a time to get ready to support. The hotels are already full. Manitoba says it has requested and received out-of-province support to deal with the wildfire threat. 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 Scaife 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. Russia is proposing to hold the next round of peace talks with Ukraine. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the talks would 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 didn't produce the ceasefire Ukraine was hoping for, but both sides released 1,000 prisoners of war each as a result. U.S. President Donald Trump says he wants to see foreign student admissions at Harvard capped at 15 percent. It's the latest blow to the university, accused by the White House of being soft on anti-Semitism. The Trump administration has already revoked visas for hundreds of foreign students involved

in protests against the war in Gaza. And yesterday the State Department also ordered the temporary suspension of all student visa processing. We want to know where those students come. Are they troublemakers? What countries do they come? You're going to see some very radical people. They're taking people from areas of the world that are very radicalized. But I want to make sure that the foreign students are people that can love our country. The U.S. State Department says it will restrict visas for anyone who tries to censor Americans. That includes foreign officials issuing arrest warrants for U.S. citizens or those demanding the U.S. social media companies comply with content moderation policies in other countries. And that is Your World This Hour.

For CBC News, I'm Julie-Ann Hazelwood.