The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/01 at 09:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 1, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/01 at 09:00 EDT

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the prairies, Canada is putting out the call for help internationally. Alexandria Jones is with the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre, also known as CFSI. She says they are dealing with a serious situation. All the available Canadian firefighting resources are already engaged in firefighting, so there is no further resource availability within Canada, which means that CFSI is reaching out to our international partners for assistance. Thousands of people have been forced to evacuate due to fires across the prairies. Both Saskatchewan and Manitoba have declared Provincial States of Emergency. Canada's premiers are heading to Saskatoon today. They'll be meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney tomorrow.

He has asked the premiers to each pass on suggestions for national infrastructure projects. Monday's meeting will aim to identify the ones that will make the final cut. Those could be fast-tracked using legislation Ottawa could introduce as early as this week. The conversation is taking place against the backdrop of an ongoing trade war with the U.S. The meeting also comes after President Donald Trump announced that he plans to double tariffs on steel and aluminum from 25 to 50 percent, which could take effect as early as Wednesday. In international news, at least 31 people have been killed after Israeli tanks opened

fire near an aid center in Gaza. 170 others have been injured. The Red Cross officials have said that the crowd was gathered there to receive food in the southern city of Rafa. Polls are open today in Poland's presidential runoff election. Some say the stakes couldn't be higher for the country's future on the European and global stage. Reporter Dominic Velaitis has the latest. This election sees two candidates with very different political visions going head to head for the presidency.

Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski is the son of a famous jazz musician, a centrist backed by Prime Minister Donald Tusk's Civic Platform Party, who is pro-EU and supports Ukraine's bid to join NATO. He's up against the former boxer and conservative historian, Karol Navrovsky. Backed by the Nationalist Law and Justice Party, he's sceptical of the EU and although is in favour of supporting Ukraine, opposes the country joining NATO over fears of angering Russia. The outcome of this contest will have significant implications for Prime Minister Donald Tusk's centrist government.

If Navrowski wins, he'll likely use the presidential veto to block Tusk's reforms and hamper his goal of reversing the nationalist trajectory Poland has taken in recent years, a direction which could complicate the country's relations not just with the EU but NATO too. Dominic Velaitis for CBC News, Riga Latvia. And back here at home some of the country's brightest stars in TV, film and digital media have been in the spotlight this weekend. Tonight the Canadian Screen Actors Awards final night will air. It will be the big show live on CBC TV and Gem. Makda Gabrisoleci has a taste of what we can expect. From TV's law and order Toronto criminal intent to the big screens The Apprentice,

a Canadian produced movie about Donald Trump's early years as a businessman. This is just a taste of the TV shows and movies nominated for the Canadian Screen Awards tonight. More than a dozen awards are set to be handed out. That includes a special presentation for actor Manny Jacinto. Yeah, and I'm freaking out, dog. You may recognize him from TV shows

like The Good Place and The Acolyte. So excited, of course. And in the spotlight, hosting it all will be comedian Lisa Gilroy. We're talking fireworks, marching bands, Celine Dion juggling knives. It's Lights, Cameras, Action right at 8 p.m. Eastern. Makda Gepresalasa, CBC News, Toronto. 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 of course for news anytime visit our website cbcnews.ca.

For CBC News, I'm Trisha Kindleman.