The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/02 at 02:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 2, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/02 at 02:00 EDT

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From CBC News, the World This Hour, I'm Neil Herland. Canada's premiers are meeting with the Prime Minister on Monday in Saskatoon. It's the first time all the First Ministers are meeting with Mark Carney in person since he won the federal election. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is expressing optimism. I can explain to you that I'm about to go on to meet with the Prime Minister right now and I'm looking forward to finding some common ground. We've had a couple of nice texts and a couple of nice phone calls and I think that there's a spirit of collaboration and I'm going to walk into the meetings with that in mind.

Carney is vowing to cut red tape and help speed up the approval process for big national projects. Quebec Premier François Lugo was asked if oil pipelines from Western Canada are now more acceptable in Quebec. If there's a project, we're ready to look at it if it goes through Quebec territory, but we'll need to have economic impact, positive ones, for Quebec. More than 170 wildfires are burning across western Canada. Half of them are out of control. Evacuations are underway in many of the affected communities and demand for hotel rooms is growing. The City of Boulder, Colorado now says there were eight victims in Sunday's attack.

Members of the Jewish community had gathered for a walk at an outdoor mall when a suspect tried to set them on fire while shouting pro-Palestinian slogans. Katie Simpson reports. We're talking about... It was 1.30 Sunday afternoon. Members of the Jewish community had gathered for a march to raise awareness about hostages in Gaza. Something that happened at this same location around the same time nearly every week in Boulder, Colorado. FBI Special Agent in Charge Mark Mihalik says the group was targeted in what authorities are calling a terror attack. Witnesses are reporting that the subject used a makeshift flame thrower and threw an incendiary device into the crowd. The suspect was heard to yell free Palestine during the attack.

At least two people had to be airlifted to a burn center. A 45-year-old suspect identified as Mohammed Solomon was arrested at the scene. U.S. President Donald Trump was briefed on the attack, the second targeting the Jewish community in the U.S. in a matter of weeks. Katie Simpson, CBC News, Washington. It's week seven of the sexual assault trial of five former World Junior Hockey players in London, Ontario. Defense lawyers aren't saying who they might call as witnesses this week, after one of the accused players testified last week. Karen Pauls reports. Michael McLeod's lawyer has already said he won't be called to the witness box.

Court heard from him, Alex Formonton and Dylan DuBey, on police interviews recorded in 2018. Carter Hart testified last week in his own defense and vouching for his former teammates. The men are accused of sexually assaulting a complainant known as EM, who says she was degraded, humiliated, spit on and slapped while being pressured into performing sex acts on the players

in a London, Ontario hotel room. They have all pleaded not guilty. Hart repeated the defense narrative that EM was offering to do sex acts with the players, but he also agreed with the Crown's suggestions. The players were excited and couldn't believe their luck. Court heard that while McLeod was recording the first consent video with her, Hart was texting another player without a girlfriend to see if he wanted to come have sex with her, Hart was texting another player without a girlfriend to see if he wanted to come have sex with her. Karen Pauls, CBC News, London, Ontario.

Canada's film and television industry gave its top prize tonight to a movie about Donald Trump. The Canadian Screen Award goes to The Apprentice. The Apprentice wins best motion picture. It tells the story of Trump's early years before he became the American president. It was filmed in Toronto. Daniel Beckerman is the lead producer. The most powerful person in the world tried to squish us. And they failed. They failed.

squished us. And they failed. They failed. Meanwhile, Law and Order Toronto criminal intent won best TV drama. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Herland.