The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/29 at 00:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 29, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/29 at 00:00 EDT...

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Starting point is 00:00:45 use of the International Economic Emergency Powers Act. To Manitoba. This is the largest evacuation Manitoba will have seen in most people's living memory. Premier Wab Kinew says a state of emergency is not a threat to the people of Manitoba. This is the largest evacuation Manitoba will have seen in most people's living memory. Premier Wab Kanu says the state of emergency is now in place to respond to wildfire crisis. More than 17,000 people are being ordered to evacuate. That includes several First Nations and the northern city of Flintlawn. Kanu says that evacuees must take heed of his message. This is a moment of fear and uncertainty, but I want to tell you that your fellow Manitobans will welcome you. We will get
Starting point is 00:01:34 through this difficult period and we'll get through this trying period the way that we always do, by working together. Canoe says the majority of evacuees will head to Winnipeg and be housed at large facilities, including arenas. The premier added that Prime Minister Mark Carney has accepted the province's request for the Canadian Armed Forces to step in and help. Police in West Vancouver say a child has died and two others are in hospital following a bus crash near a ferry terminal. Police say three people were hit by a TransLink bus near the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal
Starting point is 00:02:10 on Wednesday. Officers have now confirmed that a four-year-old boy has died and his mother is in critical condition. A third person is in stable condition. It's unclear what led to the collision. TransLink says it is working with police on the investigation. A Nova Scotia father spent months looking for his son who disappeared last July. Police declared 34-year-old Justin
Starting point is 00:02:35 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 five o'clock on Morley Road out searching myself and Steve we found our son. It's been Ken McDonald'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
Starting point is 00:03:13 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 MacDonald 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.
Starting point is 00:03:37 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. Elon Musk's time as advisor with the Trump administration is over. The billionaire entrepreneur announced on his ex-platform tonight that he is leaving his job with the Department of Government Efficiency or DOJ. The White House confirmed Musk's departure. Musk's tenure, originally considered to be temporary, was best described as turbulent
Starting point is 00:04:03 with thousands of government workers fired as part of efforts to cut federal spending, but a judge recently extended a block on Trump's mass layoffs of those federal workers. To North Carolina in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Scores! Kareem Irhadi finds the lineup inside of the net and he puts it in to put Florida back out from 4-3. As seen on Hockey Night in Canada, that goal from Hamilton, Ontario native Carter Verhage gave the Florida Panthers the lead late in the third period and they went on to beat the Carolina Hurricanes 5-3, clinching the Eastern Conference final in five games.
Starting point is 00:04:40 The Panthers, the defending Stanley Cup champs, now head to their third straight cup final and await the winner of the Edmonton Dallas Western Conference Final. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.

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