The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/02 at 11:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 2, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/02 at 11:00 EDT

We learned about Leo Schofield's fight for innocence in season one of Bone Valley. Now, he and author Gilbert King are back with season two. This time, they dig deeper into the history of the man who confessed to killing Leo's wife. Do I want to talk to him? Do I really forgive him? This is the man that murdered my wife, and I've been through hell on earth because of it. I'm Kathleen Goltar, and this week on Crime Story, how Leo Schofield chose to forgive the man who destroyed his life.

Find Crime Story wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, it's the World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings. We go first to Saskatoon. All the Premiers, we stand united and we're going to make real positive changes. And as Ontario Premier Doug Ford at the First Minister's meeting getting underway this hour. Premier Ford's talk of provincial unity comes as Prime Minister Mark Carney says he's committed

to making fundamental changes to the Canadian economy. That includes among other things, dropping inter-provincial trade barriers and fast-tracking development projects. All this in the face of the Trump administration's ongoing tariff campaign. This is the first time Carney has met face-to-face with the premiers since he became prime minister. Meanwhile, federal industry minister Melanie Jolie is saying Ottawa is committed to using Canadian steel and aluminum in all future infrastructure and defense projects. Jolie says in the meantime, the government is waiting to see if US President Trump follows through on his threat to increase steel and aluminum tariffs up to 50 percent. As of today, an estimated 25,000 people across

the Prairie provinces have been forced from their homes due to out-of-control wildfires. More than 170 blazes are currently burning in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta with the demand for shelter space growing by the day. Sam Sampson has more. A normally sleepy train station in Winnipeg filled with Manitobans fleeing wildfires over the weekend. After being flown out of Pukatawagan in the north, residents like River Caribou took a 16-hour train ride to seek refuge. But it was very comfy.

The baloney saunders were great. But rooms are running out as 17,000 people flee fires in Manitoba. Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief, Kyra Wilson, among others, is urging the province to force hotels to make room for evacuees. And it's really sad to see, you know, our children having to sleep on floors. Fires forced more communities in Saskatchewan to evacuate over the weekend. Officials say conditions are bad and without rain the fires are expected to grow. Rain did fall in Alberta which helped firefighters but conditions are still too dangerous for the 4,500 Albertans forced from their homes to return. Sam Sampson, CBC News, Edmonton.

The FBI in Boulder, Colorado is investigating what it's calling a targeted act of terror after a crowd of people was attacked by a man wielding a flamethrower and shouting pro-Palestinian slogans. Katie Simpson has more. 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 flamethrower 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.

The latest round of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine has wrapped up in Istanbul with no agreement in sight to end the fighting. Here's Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. The key to lasting peace is clear. The aggressor must not receive any reward for war. Putin must get nothing that would justify his aggression. Any reward would only show him that war pays off. There are ongoing discussions underway regarding future prisoner exchanges, and there are reports as well that Ukraine has given Russia a list of children they want returned as part of a peace agreement. Since the start of the war, hundreds of children have been forcibly removed from Ukraine by

Russian forces. And that is The World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings.