The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/03 at 00:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/03 at 00:00 EDT

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is now the latest to evacuate because of an approaching wildfire that threatens thousands of people. Residents of the LaRange area have been ordered to leave and drive south immediately. Alexander Silberman has late details tonight. Fast moving fires are forcing the mandatory evacuation of the LaRange area, Northern Saskatchewan's largest town. An emergency alert from the province says the wildfire has breached the local airport, about six kilometres from the municipality. The order impacts more than 7,000 residents in the communities of La Ronge, Ayr, and the

Lac-La-Range Indian Band. People are being asked to drive south on Highway 2 to Prince Albert immediately. The Saskatchewan government says drivers should prepare for delays of up to three hours on the road. Heavy wildfire smoke and limited to zero visibility is creating hazardous conditions for drivers. The province says vehicles are being escorted through the road only when safe to do so. Dozens of patients at a local hospital also need to evacuate. Widespread phone and internet outages are also creating challenges. SaskTel says its network is likely damaged by the fire. Alexander Silberman, CBC News, Regina. About 200 wildfires are burning across Canada tonight. Half of them are considered out of control. The First Minister's meeting has wrapped in Saskatoon, and Prime Minister Mark

Carney says the federal government has a list of nation-building projects to look at, including a pipeline from Alberta to the coast. Olivia Stefanovic 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 signalled support for a bitumen pipeline from Alberta to Tidewaters in BC. 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 Polyaev 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. 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. At a NATO meeting in Lithuania, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy stood firm. 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 1,000 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, C fighting and killing continues. Paul Hunter, CBC News, Washington. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Herland.