The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/01 at 08:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 1, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/01 at 08:00 EDT

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their communities as wildfires threaten their homes. Evacuations are underway in Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The weather isn't helping firefighting efforts. Hot, dry conditions are fueling the flames. CBC's Mark Carcassel has more on the ongoing evacuation efforts in Manitoba, where the Mathias Colombe First Nation, also known as Pukatawagan, has been trying to get its residents to safety. The Canadian Armed Forces have now stepped in. They've upped the evacuation effort. They've got larger military planes in there now. It's still not perfect because the runway at the airport there can't accommodate the really large planes that

the CAF would use, but they are able to evacuate dozens of people at a time from the region, which is a major step up. The local chief, Gordy Bear, estimates they cleared out about 500 people yesterday. He estimates there's still about 1700 people in Pukatawagan who need to be moved out. The process is moving forward, but the chief says it's still a lengthy one. We have a 10 hour window and after that they're timed out. At this point, the fire just outside Pukatawagan Cree Nation is just under 9,800 hectares. Many people from there are being sent to the Paw first and then it's a train ride over

to Winnipeg so it's a long journey for them to get to shelter. Mark Carcassole, CBC News, Toronto. Across the prairies there are nearly 100 active wildfires. About 20,000 people have been evacuated, while thousands more remain under evacuation alerts. In other news, Prime Minister Mark Carney and provincial and territorial premiers are expected to land in Saskatoon this evening for a meeting that will be their first since the federal election. On the agenda, faster approvals for major nation-building projects.

Rafi Bucci-Kanyon has more. What we're going to do is fast track the approval. Prime Minister Mark Carney during an interview on CBC's Power and Politics earlier this week. Carney has been speaking about getting big provincial and territorial projects done since before the election campaign. In effect we're going to have a competition with projects. Some projects are good ideas but they're not ready. Others are ready but they're bad ideas. Carney's expected to meet on Monday with premiers from all 13 provinces and territories

and hammer out further details. For months, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been asking for a quicker path to more pipelines, including some that would crisscross Canada. Her government recently passed a bill making it easier to hold a citizen-led referendum as separatist sentiment picks up in Alberta. Carney says he's open to more pipelines but would need to seek consensus from any jurisdictions they might cross, one challenge going into tomorrow's meeting. Rafi Boudjikan, YonCBC News, Ottawa.

Canada Post employees gathered at rallies in 13 cities to highlight the ongoing labour dispute between their union and employer. Some 55,000 workers have been embroiled in contract negotiations with the Crown Corporation for months. The union issued a statement inviting Canada Post to a fair final and binding arbitration process. Canada Post is seeking a union membership vote and has asked jobs minister Patty Hajdu to facilitate that. Now to Western Russia. At least seven people are dead after two bridges collapsed overnight. It happened in two regions bordering Ukraine. Russian officials say explosions caused one of the bridges to collapse, leading to the derailment of two trains.

In one incident, a bridge collapsed on top of a passenger train. One of the train's conductors is said to be among the dead, and dozens others were injured. Ukraine's military intelligence says that Russian military freight trains carrying food and fuel had been blown up on its way into Crimea, but it did not claim responsibility for the attack, nor did it mention the bridge collapses. And two people have died and close to 500 arrests have been made in Paris as soccer fans clashed with police. Police were firing tear gas as fans shot off fireworks along the Champs-Élysées. The celebrations were for Paris Saint-Germain's soccer team.

It won the Champions League final for the first time, but the celebrations took a turn as some fans began to loot shops and smash bus shelters. That is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tricia Kindleman.