The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/28 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/28 at 16:00 EDT

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And as Cameron McIntosh reports, this 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 work sites. Shelley Lawrence left her northern lodge. It's the not knowing what's happening. And in northern Alberta, about 1200 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. The leader of a human smuggling plot connected to a family that froze to death near the U.S.-Canada

border has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. A Minnesota court convicted Indian national Harshkumar Patel on charges of bringing unauthorized people into the US and profiting from it. In January, 2022, the bodies of an Indian family were discovered in a Manitoba field, not far from the border. The weather that day was minus 23 degrees with the wind chill making it feel more like minus 38.

Florida resident Steve Shan will also be sentenced later this afternoon for helping Patel's smuggling operation. Mark Carney has made his debut as Prime Minister in question period this afternoon, and the opposition wasted no time taking him to task over the lack of a budget. David Thurton has more on Carney's first grilling. Oral questions, the Honourable Leader of the Opposition. Conservatives and Liberals back added. Opposition Leader Andrew Scheer starting things off.

Thank you very much Mr. Speaker. I would like to welcome the Prime Minister to his first official question period. This is where democracy lives and this is where we provide rigorous scrutiny. Scheer asking the Prime Minister, where's his budget? If he's the man with the plan and the guy you hire in a crisis, why won't he table a budget before he goes on summer vacation? Prime Minister Mark Carney. Mr. Speaker, I understand the member of the opposition is very busy, didn't have a chance to study closely the 100-day plan of the former member from Ottawa, Carlton, which did not include a budget. Carney, drawing attention to Conservative leader Pierre Paulier's absence, the Conservative leader lost his seat in the last election. David Thornton, CBC News, Ottawa. 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 closer 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 to trial in France. 74-year-old Joël Le Squarenec 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.

Le Squarenec is already serving a 15-year sentence for prior rape convictions. And that is your World This Hour. For CDC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.