The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/31 at 07:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 31, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/31 at 07:00 EDT

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where the wind blows the flames. In Manitoba, the military is helping fly trapped people out of northern communities, and in Saskatchewan, there are growing concerns over the spread of a large fire in the north. Both provinces are under provincial states of emergency. Alexander Silberman reports. Pray for rain. Manitoba Premier Wab Kanu urging residents to remain calm in the face of widespread fires. Upwards of 17,000 people in the province now evacuated from their homes.

The past few days have been very challenging. That may continue. A wildfire is raging on the edge of Flynn Flawn and the fear is winds could push the flames inside the city. All 5,000 people who live there have been ordered out. Evacuations are also underway in several remote northern communities. The military helping to get people out by plane. Across the border in Saskatchewan, fires are also threatening homes and forcing evacuations. The province's largest fire, burning 305,000 hectares, a situation wildfire officials warn could get worse.

Alexander Silberman, CBC News, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. At the same time, the wildfire situation in northwestern Ontario is getting worse. Deer Lake First Nation near the Manitoba border has now declared a state of emergency. Deer Lake Chief Leonard Mamakezik says an evacuation has begun and he also says the fire has surrounded that community's airport. Meanwhile, nearby Webiquay First Nation has also declared a state of emergency. Prime Minister Mark Carney has convened an incident response group as those fires rage in various parts of the country.

In other news, Donald Trump has announced that he'll double steel and aluminum import tariffs to 50 percent this coming Wednesday. He says it's to protect the two sectors in the United States. He made the steel announcement at a rally at a U.S. steel plant in Pennsylvania last night where he also vowed to stop any countries evading the new rate. If you don't have steel, you don't have a country. You don't have a country. You can't make a military.

What are we going to do? Say, let's go to China to get our steel for the army tanks and for the boats and ships. A strong steel industry is not just a matter of dignity or prosperity and pride. It's above all, a matter of national security. And the news on aluminum tariffs came later in a social media post. The federal government has responded though. Minister Melanie Zhou Lee responding in an online post saying that the federal government continues to fight what she calls unjustified and unlawful tariffs with retaliatory actions

and strong domestic support packages. To Singapore now. There you are. How are you? To Singapore now. That's U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth meeting with the Japanese Defense Minister Jen Nakatani as part of the Shangri-La dialogue in Singapore. Hegseth has warned a threat from China is real and is pushing allies in the Indo-Pacific to spend more on their own defence needs. Today, China's navy conducted combat readiness patrols around the disputed Scarborough Shoal

in the South China Sea. Hegseth then held talks with Nakatani, as well as the Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles and the EU's top diplomat, Kaya Callas. The Shangri-La dialogue runs through to tomorrow. And that is your World This Hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts updated every hour, seven days a week, or also you can get all the news you need anytime, anywhere on the go with the CBC News app. For CBC News, I'm Trisha Kindleman.