The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/01 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 1, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/01 at 16:00 EDT

Other People's Problems was the first podcast to take you inside real-life therapy sessions. I'm Dr. Hilary McBride, and again, we're doing something new. The ketamine really broke down a lot of my barriers. This work has this sort of immediate transformational effect. Therapy Using Psychedelics is the new frontier in mental health. Come along for the trip. Other People's Problems Season 5, available now. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Gina Louise Phillips. We begin with those western wildfires. A First Nations community in northern Manitoba is hoping to get everyone out by the

end of today. Until this weekend, the community's escape plan was a six-person helicopter to help over 2,000 people. Josh Crabb has this update. Evacuation efforts continue by the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Canadian military to move people out of northern First Nations communities like Pukatawagan and Pimichikamak. Now people from Pukatauagin are being flown out using helicopters. Well now we're told by the chief that the airport has been able to reopen there. There are still hundreds of people waiting for help there and those aircraft and helicopters they're not going to Pukatauagin empty-handed. They're actually carrying supplies

we're told like food and water for people who are waiting to be taken out because the community is without power and people are just hunkering down. The Armed Forces said so far it has moved around 1,500 people from Northern First Nations communities but hundreds of people still need help. The Red Cross has said that it has registered 8,900 evacuees from 3,500 households. The CBC's Josh Crabb in the Paw at Manitoba. And in Saskatchewan, an evacuation order has been issued for the Hamlet of Timber Bay, 230 kilometers north of Saskatoon. Alexander Silberman updates the wildfire situation in that province.

Hot, dry weather and gusty winds are continuing to push fires closer to Saskatchewan communities. Timber Bay, now the latest community forced to evacuate. Residents of the small hamlet have been told to leave immediately, with a fast-moving fire approaching homes. More than 8,000 people have now left their homes in Saskatchewan. Many of the evacuees from remote First Nations in the far north, and there are growing concerns those numbers will continue to rise in the coming days. Premier Scott Moe says if weather conditions don't improve, housing evacuees will be a challenge. Hotels in Prince Albert and Saskatoon are full, sending evacuees as far south as Regina in search of shelter. Alexander Silverman,

CBC News, near Montreal Lake, Saskatchewan. Blasts at an aid distribution depot in Gaza have killed at least 31 people. Israel is denying accusations that it shot at civilians. Spokesperson Effie Deffrin is accusing Hamas. He's spreading rumors, fake news. He's trying bluntly and violently to stop the people of Gaza from reaching those distribution centers. Todd Perry has more on the incident. We heard reports from Gaza, from Hamas, from Palestinian sources there, blaming the Israeli military for this, saying there was Israeli ground troops who had fired on Palestinians as they gathered

at a distribution center for aid. Now we did hear some witnesses, some people who were there. There's no place to get food except that dangerous point. It's not a humanitarian point. It's a death trap. The gunfire was intense. Someone next to me was shot in the shoulder and when people die there, no one carries them away. Bodies are piled up on top of each other. We've heard from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, this Israeli and American backed aid group that's been distributing some aid in southern Gaza saying that there was no incident at its aid distribution centers.

That's the CBC's Tom Perry reporting from Jerusalem. In northeastern India, non-stop rain is causing rivers to swell, flooding streets and homes. Rescuers and Indian army personnel wade through flooded roads to aid the downpours victims in Manipur state, many having to be rescued by boat. Multiple days of rainfall are overwhelming the region's poor drainage systems, leading rivers to burst beyond their embankments and waterlogging swaths of land. The rain is expected to continue for several more days. And that's the World This Hour. For news anytime, go to our website cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.