The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/03 at 04:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/03 at 04:00 EDT

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that threatens thousands of people. Residents of the LaRange area have been ordered to leave and drive south immediately. Alexander Silberman reports. 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

La Ronge, Ayr, Ronge, and the Lack, La Ronge 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.

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 yesterday'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 Kearney 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 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 dollars to keep the project alive. US President Donald Trump is set

to double American tariffs on steel Wednesday and some analysts say Canada needs to chart its own course to become more economically resilient including trade with countries whose values don't align with ours. Lisa Shing has more. This is a super wake-up call. Yusup Petranich, 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 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 U.S. 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 Sheng, CBC News, Toronto. Millions of South Koreans are voting today 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-arch, Li Jie Mu Yong, is headed for victory. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neal Hurland.