The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/03 at 02:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/03 at 02:00 EDT

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Find an agent today at Desjardins.com slash business coverage. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neal Herland. A major community in northern Saskatchewan 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 kilometers from the municipality. The order impacts more than 7,000 residents in the communities of LaRange, Ayrrange and the Lac LaRange 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. Alexander Silberman, CBC News, Regina. About 200 wildfires are burning across Canada tonight. Half of them are considered out of control. I'm going to be very blunt here. This has been the best meeting we've had in 10 years.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is praising Monday's meeting between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Canada's 13 premiers. We all walked out of that room united, and that's the most important thing. Now the prime minister is going to go to work, get the legislation passed, and we'll divvy it up. I described him today as Santa Claus. He's coming and his sled was full of all sorts of stuff. Now he's taking off back to the North Pole. He's going

to sort it out and then he's going to call us. The meeting was held in Saskatoon and the new Carney government is promising to help fast track new projects. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith would like to see a new pipeline to bring Alberta oil to a seaport and she's hoping it comes from the private sector. I mean it's up to us to find the proponent I think. I think if there's some certainty that a process is going to be successful in a reasonable period of time, a two-year window, I think that there will be a proponent that will step forward. My view would be that we'll have failed at the assignment if government has to build another pipeline.

In 2018, the federal government bought the Trans Mountain pipeline from Kinder Morgan for $4.5 billion to keep that project alive. Donald Trump's double steel tariffs are set to take effect Wednesday. Some analysts say Canada needs to chart its own course to become more economically resilient, including doing more trade with countries whose values don't align with ours. Lisa Sheng has more. This is a super wake-up call. Yusuf Petranic, head of a Canadian transit think tank, wants Canada to strengthen trade

relationships with more countries. We have to figure out a way to trade with countries that do not have our values because to not trade is to revert and have to go back 30 years. As Prime Minister Mark Carney promises to remove inter-provincial trade barriers and fast track new infrastructure projects to get goods moving, there's a renewed emphasis on making Canada more resilient and independent. Since Canada is a relatively small market, analysts like Nicholas Lamp, an associate law professor at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, cautions against disengaging from the

US. We have to maintain as much integration with the United States as we can. Simply because it's right next door and still a massive economy. Lisa Shing, CBC News, Toronto. Millions of South Koreans are voting Tuesday for a new president in a snap election that was triggered by the ouster of President Yun Seok-yul. Yun now faces charges of rebellion after he briefly imposed martial law in December. Pre-election surveys suggest Yun's liberal arts rival, Lee Jae Myung, is headed for victory. And that is your World This Hour.