The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/28 at 21:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 29, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/28 at 21:00 EDT

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Mexico. The three-judge panel says Trump cannot wield tariffs on nearly every country through the use of the International Economic Emergency Powers Act. Meanwhile, Manitoba has declared a state of emergency. More than 17,000 people in northern First Nations and the city of Flintlawn have been ordered to leave their homes. Cameron McIntosh reports. Forest firefighters rapidly retreating from a wall of flames near Creighton, Saskatchewan. Just over the border in Flintlawn, Manitoba, resident Elsa Adelurda watched the same fire

about three kilometres away. You can still see the fires, the smoke. Now she's on her way out. An evacuation order issued for the whole community. I am definitely panicking. It's not the only community. So we're doing a full evacuation now. Chief David Meneas and Pimicikamak First Nation taking to Facebook telling people to leave as several Northern Manitoba First Nations also evacuate more than 17,000 people on the move. Premier Wab Kanu now declaring a state of emergency.

We've called on the federal government to send the Canadian Armed Forces. They are doing so. Manitoba has had Canada's worst fires so far this year already burning triple the usual area of a regular fire season. Cameron McIntosh, CBC News, Winnipeg. Mark Carney has faced a lot of first tests as Canada's new prime minister. Today, it was his first question period. As Kate McKenna reports, the opposition wasted no time criticizing the government's agenda. I would like to welcome the prime Minister to his first official question period.

Opposition leader Andrew Scheer started Prime Minister Mark Carney's first question period on a cordial note. But the warm welcome didn't last long. Carney was grilled on the government's response to tariffs, energy policy, and why his government isn't tabling a spring 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? Attorney deflected, saying the Conservatives didn't promise a spring budget either. 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. Hey, I'd love to be in there. Conservative leader Pierre Polyev spoke to reporters outside the House of Commons. After failing to win his seat, he has to watch proceedings from outside the chamber until he wins a by-election. Kate McKenna, CBC News, Ottawa. The losses are piling up at Canada Post. The blame being shared among the last year's job dispute and a continued decline in business. Evan Dyer has the details.

Canada Post has reported an operating loss of $1.3 billion for last year, its largest ever shortfall and the seventh consecutive year that has ended in the red for the Crown Corporation. The losses include a negative impact of over 200 million dollars from the postal strike which ran from mid-November to mid-December last year and affected the Christmas season. Marvin Ryder teaches business at McMaster University. He says losses like this can't continue. A clock is ticking and you've got to make significant changes within 12 months or this company could be in very deep financial circumstances. The report says Canada Post suffered severe declines in both letter and parcel volumes.

It comes just as the Canadian Union of Postal Workers issues a new strike notice to Canada Post. Evan Dyer, CBC News, Ottawa. The Canadian Medical Association is taking the Alberta government to court over legislation limiting access to medical treatment for transgender youth. The CMA is challenging Alberta's Bill 26, which prevents doctors from providing gender-affirming treatments and surgeries. The association argues the law violates doctors' charter rights to freedom of conscience and interferes with the doctor-patient relationship.

And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.