The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/30 at 13:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 30, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/30 at 13:00 EDT

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We begin with the latest on the wildfires across the prairies. In Manitoba, shifting winds are sending the fire threat toward the community of Flynnflon. Those people who didn't leave before had until this hour to get out. Buses are taking them to shelters in Winnipeg. Caroline Bargout has the latest. Five thousand people from the town of Flynnflon were ordered to evacuate on Wednesday, but the mayor and some councillors stayed behind. Now the community is being told they all have to go because the fire could be heading their way. George Fontaine is the mayor.

We still have a few people and we've got to get them out. So we're managing all that sort of thing. But once we drive away, that's it. I'm not sure when we'll be able to come back in here, when or if. Dennis Ballard is one of thousands who fled their homes. The 84-year-old made the 5.5 hour drive to Saskatoon. He says over the years, there were other fires that came close to Flintlawn. But these forest fires are different.

It almost seems apocalyptic, you know? Like, the world is burning up. They're bigger, they move faster, they're hotter, and a hell of a lot more scary. A number of First Nations have also been evacuated. The Canadian military is sending in Hercules aircraft to help get them out. Caroline Bargout, CBC News, Winnipeg. Increasingly volatile wildfires are also raging in central and northern Alberta. But there is a bit of good news out of a remote northern Alberta town.

Officials had lost contact with a group of firefighters in Chippewaun Lake, about 450 kilometers north of Edmonton. Eight firefighters were forced to shelter in place and wait to be rescued. It has now been determined the road is safe for them to drive out of the community, and a forestry crew was sent to clear fallen trees from the road. Police in Pickering, Ontario have charged a teenager with first degree murder. An elderly woman was stabbed and killed outside her home yesterday afternoon. The accused is 14 years old. Joan McCabe is with Durham Regional Police. She says investigators are still looking to see if there's a connection between the two.

They will look at every avenue at this point. There's nothing to say the two of them are connected. However, due to the distance they were in proximity of each other, every avenue will be looked at, but there's nothing to suggest at this time that they're connected. An emergency alert and a notice to shelter in place went out to cell phones in the area. Police say the suspect was arrested hours later without incident. The suspect remains in custody until his bail hearing. The Canadian economy grew at a solid 2.2% in the first quarter of this year. That growth was faster than most economists expected.

But as we hear from Peter Armstrong, there are dark economic clouds on the horizon. The first quarter, January, February and March 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 SatCan 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. In Gaza, Palestinian health officials say Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours have killed 70 people. The UN Human Rights Office says dozens of people were also injured when crowds overwhelmed an aid center. But the Israeli-backed organization put in charge of distributing that aid denies anyone

was hurt. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.