The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/28 at 17:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/28 at 17:00 EDT

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Thousands of people in Manitoba are being asked to pack their bags and prepare to leave on short notice. An out of control wildfire is growing closer to the northern city of Flintlawn. Manitoba does have the highest fire activity in Canada so far this year. Kristen Hayward with Manitoba Wildfire Service says about 18 fires are burning across the province. She says notably almost all were caused by human activity. Premier Wabkanoo is calling on residents and businesses to consider opening their doors to evacuees. For Manitobans and the rest of the province, now is the 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. Canada Post says it lost $1.3 billion in 2024. It's blaming some of the losses on last year's labour dispute. But a big chunk, $800 million, is from lower revenue. Letter mail deliveries continue to decline and competing carriers are capturing a bigger share of parcel delivery. The Crown Corporation has lost nearly four billion dollars since 2018. Mark Carney has made his first appearance in question period as Prime Minister. Opposition leader Andrew Scheer stood in for party leader Pierre Poliev. 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. The opposition also grilled Carney on the delay to presenting the government's budget. A Nova Scotia father spent months looking for his son who disappeared in July. Police declared 34-year-old Justin McDonald was a victim of homicide. But it was only this week that Justin's father found his human remains in a rural area south of Sydney.

Kyle Moore reports. And a warning, some of the details may be disturbing. On May 26th at 5 o'clock on Morley Road, out searching myself and Steve, we found our son. It's been Ken MacDonald's goal for almost a year now. He's been searching every day for his son. And it was him who made the discovery. I've seen this earth and I've seen this skull. Emotions took over. And then like I said, I called police right away. Cape Wright Regional Police and the medical examiner has not yet confirmed the identity of the remains yet. Police declared McDonald's disappearance a homicide in November. Two men have been charged with second-degree murder, robbery, and assault in

the case. One other man was charged with manslaughter and robbery. Ken McDonald says the amount of community support has helped the family through some tough times. It's emotionally draining, happy to a point that we'll now be able to have a funeral. We're bringing them home. We are bringing them home. Now the family will turn their focus on getting justice for their son with the case now before the courts.

Kyle Morris, CBC News, Sydney. US President Donald Trump says he wants to see foreign student admissions at Harvard capped at 15%. 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 US State Department says it will restrict visas

for anyone who tries to censor Americans. That includes foreign officials issuing rest warrants for US citizens or those demanding that US social media companies comply with content moderation policies in other countries. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.