The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/30 at 09:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 30, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/30 at 09:00 EDT

I thought that I knew Amanda Knox's story. She was the girl accused of murder in Italy who spent four years in prison for a crime that she did not commit. But then she told me what her life has really been like. I had finally done something in my life that defined me more than this horrible thing that had happened to me. I'm Kathleen Goldtar and this week on Crime Story, Amanda Knox in her own words. Find Crime Story wherever you get your podcasts. [♪upbeat music playing.♪ [♪upbeat music playing.♪ From CBC News, it's the world this hour.

I'm Joe Cummings. The latest update on the state of the Canadian economy is out this morning and the numbers are good with first quarter growth coming in at 2.2%. But as we hear now from Peter Armstrong, there are dark clouds on the horizon. The first quarter, January, February and March of this year saw the very first earliest impacts of the trade war, but the real damage and the real uncertainty didn't really start to bite until April. So economists expected to see a bit of a surge in activity as exporters tried to get ahead of those

tariffs and get products out the door before tariffs kicked in. And we saw that in spades. The economy expanded in March and SatKan says the preliminary figures show it expanded again in April. But the forecast for the rest of the spring and the rest of the summer show Canada is likely now to slip into a recession from here. The Bank of Canada meets next week to decide its path on interest rates and after this report markets assume about a 75% chance that the bank will leave those rates unchanged at 2.75%.

Peter Armstrong, CBC News, Toronto. Across the country, six provinces are now dealing with out of control wildfires. In total, more than 17,000 people are under evacuation orders, and across the Prairie provinces alone, 600,000 hectares of land have been consumed. Saskatchewan and Manitoba have both declared province-wide states of emergency, and in Ottawa the federal government is in the process of delivering support. Janice McGregor has the latest. JANICE McGREGOR So far, Manitoba is the only jurisdiction

that's requested federal assistance. Emergency Preparedness Minister Eleanor Olszewski approved that request early yesterday morning, specifically to assist with the mandatory evacuations of two indigenous communities in Northern Manitoba where the wildfires now alarmingly close, the Pimichikamak First Nation and the Mathias Colombe First Nation.

The minister told reporters after question period yesterday, the Canadian Armed Forces has already mobilized. Those Air Force planes were deployed and they were in the process of evacuating people from those communities at this time. Neighbouring Saskatchewan has also declared a state of emergency. Prime Minister Mark Carney posted on social media last evening that he's spoken with Premier Scott Moe and federal assistance is ready to mobilize the province has the federal government's

full support. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. The collapse of a glacier in Switzerland this week has renewed focus on the role global warming plays in such collapses and the increasing dangers. The village of Blattin was evacuated as the nearby mountainside gave way and buried much of the community. Scientists say melting glaciers will raise sea levels for decades, but the loss of inland glaciers impacts communities that rely on them

for both drinking water and agriculture. Former Sinn Fein leader Jerry Adams has won a libel suit against the BBC. Adams launched a legal action after the BBC claimed he authorized the murder of an informant inside the Irish Republican movement. The BBC argued that its reporting didn't harm Adams' reputation because he is widely considered to have been an IRA commander. But the jury disagreed and awarded Adams more than $100,000 US in damages. With a win last night in Dallas, the Edmonton Oilers are on their way to the Stanley Cup Final.

That's the Oilers cruising to a 6-3 victory over the Stars in game five of the Western Final. Edmonton takes that series four games to one and they advance now to play for the Stanley Cup. They'll be facing the Florida Panthers in a repeat of last year's final. If you remember, Florida won that series in seven games. Game one this year is set for Edmonton on Wednesday. And that is The World This Hour. For news anytime go to our website cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.