The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/01 at 10:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 1, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/01 at 10:00 EDT

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Thousands of people are leaving their communities as wildfires threaten their homes. Evacuations are underway in Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The weather isn't helping those firefighting efforts. Hot dry conditions are fueling the flames. CBC's Mark Carcassol 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 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 Baer, estimates they cleared out about 500 people yesterday. He estimates there's still about 1,700 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 and about 20,000 people have been evacuated, while thousands more are under evacuation alerts. evacuated while thousands more are under evacuation alerts. In the Middle East now at least 31 people are dead after Israeli tanks reportedly opened fire near an aid center in Gaza. It's an ambulance rushing some of the 150 wounded to hospital. Red Cross officials say the crowd was gathered to receive food in the southern city of Ra'a. A new study receive food in the southern city of Rafa. A new study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine is highlighting the significant

impact of exercise on cancer survival. Health reporter Christine Birak explains the research and the results. Kerry Cournier teaches in the Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of Alberta. He led a landmark trial examining whether exercise can help colon cancer patients live longer. Kearnyay says he found the magnitude of the results surprising. Exercise can result in substantial improvements in cancer recurrence risk, second cancers and improved survival. Seven years later, 90% of patients in the exercise group were still living compared to 83% of patients who received the educational materials, a 7% difference. It's quite an impressive

study. Dr. Sami Chatty is a colorectal surgeon at the University Health Network in Toronto. He says 7% is as good as some cancer drugs. I think a structured exercise program, we should be recommending it as strongly as we recommend chemotherapy to our stage 3 patients. Christine Birak, CBC News, Toronto. And it's a fate that has been looming over Hudson Bay employees for some time now. Today is their last day on the job. Stores across Canada will be closing. Qabina Oduro has more. Some of the girls from the Bay downtown here were bridesmaids at my wedding.

Megan Carrier worked at the Bay in downtown Montreal for 23 years. She is among 8,300 employees laid off by the end of the weekend. Carrier says it's been a roller coaster of emotions. The highlight, our customers, the staff, we'll miss each other. It's a big family.

Now that the liquidation sales are over, stores are shutting their doors. Once the company's distribution centers close in mid-June, an additional 900 employees will also be let go. Some days I think that this is sort of, it's ruined it for me, but I love it so much and I love the clients so much. So a lot of the clients do follow us or have said that they will follow us wherever we go there's that to look forward to. Some longtime customers are sad to see the demise of the iconic department store. The employees really made this store for me.

I've always been well treated. Kubito Duro, CBC News, Montreal. And that is your World This Hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts. It's updated every hour, seven days a week. News also available anytime at cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Trisha Kindleman.