The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/02 at 22:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/02 at 22:00 EDT

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a list of nation-building projects to look at, including a pipeline from Alberta to the coast. Olivia Stefanovich reports on the mood coming out of the meeting. This is a unified group. This is a group that wants to work together and will work together to build our country. Prime Minister Mark Carney sitting next to the premiers at a joint news conference in Saskatoon, projecting a change in the relationship among First Ministers, including Alberta Premier Daniel Smith. Let's call it the grand bargain.

Smith says she's encouraged after Carney signaled support for a bitumen pipeline from Alberta to Tidewaters in B.C., a project that could move forward, she says, in exchange for decarbonized oil. This has been the best meeting we've had in 10 years. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the challenge now will be to turn the positive rhetoric into action. No projects were officially greenlit, but First Ministers did establish the criteria to move forward and will refine their wish lists over

the summer. Olivia Stefanovic, CBC News, Ottawa. And tonight, Conservative leader Pierre Poliev is reacting to the First Minister's meeting. He says meetings won't get pipelines, power lines, or mines built. We must repeal anti-development liberal laws and taxes. A major wildfire evacuation is underway in northern Saskatchewan tonight. Residents of LaRange, Ayr-Range and Lac-Range Indian Band are ordered to leave. People with their own transportation are being asked to drive south on Highway 2 and register in Prince Albert

at the Days Inn. The designated meeting place for evacuees needing assistance is the Jonas Roberts Memorial Community Center in LaRange. Across the provinces, in the prairies, nearly 30,000 people are being forced out. Evacuees from Manitoba are having to leave the province due to the lack of space, Julia Wong reports. It's a time bomb and I'm hoping that it goes in a positive direction. George Fontaine is the mayor of Flynn Flawn. Wildfires on the doorsteps of the city. No structures have been lost he says but they're at the mercy of Mother Nature and having enough manpower. There's just not enough resources to be able to throw them at any one fire. Something Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew acknowledges. We're in this challenge of having to respond during an emergency

situation by pulling pieces that we have at our disposal. Prime Minister Mark Premier Wav Kanu acknowledges. We're in this challenge of having to respond during an emergency situation by pulling pieces that we have at our disposal. Prime Minister Mark Carney says help is pouring in from across Canada and elsewhere. Just reiterate the Northern Prairie provinces, the challenges of the wildfires that are raging and the cooperation that we're seeing across the provinces, across Canada. Volunteers, the Canadian Armed Forces help from some of the Americans as well. Some provinces are stepping in to help their neighbours. With so many evacuees in Manitoba in need of a bed, Ontario has opened up thousands

of rooms. Julia Wong, CBC News, Edmonton. Russian and Ukrainian officials have agreed to another prisoner swap following a second round of peace talks in Turkey. But there's little movement towards any potential peace deal, Paul Hunter reports. We have handed over our memorandum, said Vladimir Malinsky, head of the Russian delegation. On it, Russia's conditions for an end to the fighting, including that Ukrainian forces be pulled from the Ukrainian territory Russia's taken. Land Ukraine has said it would

never give up. President Zelensky. At a NATO meeting in Lithuania, Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky stood firm. Russia must feel what its losses mean. That is what will push it toward diplomacy. In Istanbul there was some progress on other issues. An agreement the two sides will trade the bodies of some 6,000 soldiers killed in action. And a pledge to swap at least a thousand prisoners of war. The sick, the wounded and those under the age of 25. Meanwhile, back in Ukraine, the fighting and killing continues. Paul Hunter, CBC News,

Washington. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Herland.