The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/03 at 23:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/03 at 23:00 EDT...

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Starting point is 00:00:32 From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Herland. We begin with breaking news from Toronto where a mass shooting took place in the city's north end tonight, six people were shot in the Lawrence Heights neighborhood. One of them is dead. This man lives nearby and heard the gunshots. Between 10 and 20, like too quick to be fireworks. I felt really scared, like I'm not gonna lie. There was a lot of blood and a lot of people yelling and screaming. Puddles of blood, people being given life-saving procedures.
Starting point is 00:01:12 Five of the surviving gunshot victims are now in hospital. U.S. President Donald Trump has signed the executive order to double steel and aluminum tariffs. They'll rise to 50 percent from 25% starting next hour. Canadian steel and aluminum producers have spent months hoping an already devastating situation would improve, but as Anis Haydari reports, it's about to get worse. You know we come up with a plan on a 25% tariff and then as of June 4th the tariff's gonna be 50%. Trevor Borland
Starting point is 00:01:43 owns Pacific Bolt manufacturing in Langley BC. His company uses steel. Their US sales already went off a cliff with the first round of tariffs. But after Donald Trump surprised many by saying he would double steel and aluminum charges. The bar gets changed so often and so frequently and so quickly it's really hard to decide or what to do. Higher tariffs in the US mean even higher prices in that country for those Canadian metals. Nathan Janssen is an economist with RBC.
Starting point is 00:02:13 Demand for Canadian steel and aluminum will fall and lower prices in Canada. Steel industry representatives have said hundreds of jobs have already been lost in Canada and say they can't keep producing if one of their major markets, the United States, is charging these tariffs. NEC News, Calgary. Prime Minister Mark Carney released a statement tonight. It says the additional tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum announced today by the United States are unlawful and unjustified. Canada's new government is engaged in intensive negotiations to have these and other tariffs removed as part of a new economic and security partnership with the United States.
Starting point is 00:02:55 Hot dry and windy weather continues across the Prairie provinces, fueling wildfires that are forcing thousands of people from their homes. Aaron Collins reports. A water bomber skims the tree line near Larrange, Saskatchewan. Residents here, some of the latest to be forced out by fires. Waiting is the hardest thing on any evacuation. When do we evacuate? When can we get ready? After weeks on edge, Tom Roberts finally moving. A slow retreat south from L Ronge, fast moving wildfires
Starting point is 00:03:26 at his heels. Across western Canada, tens of thousands of people are out of their homes. Dozens of out of control wildfires threatening communities across the prairies and parts of BC and Ontario too. Evacuees fanning out across the country. Winnipeg's train station a hub for some forced out by fires. Officials in the north of the province urging residents to get out. The federal government has announced more help for wildfire evacuees joining with Manitoba and Saskatchewan to match donations to the Red Cross. Aaron Collins, CBC News, Calgary. An Ottawa public school trustee resigned tonight.
Starting point is 00:04:07 Nilly Kaplan-Murth says she faced anti-Semitism while sitting on the school board. My unspokenness about being targeted as a Jew and as an Israeli have made me a particular focus of hate. Kaplan-Murth is a medical doctor who rose to prominence during the COVID pandemic by organizing mass vaccinations in Ottawa. She says her public profile made her a target. I am resigning because of the combination of the toxicity from outside of this board and from within this board. Kaplan-Murth clashed with some of her fellow Ottawa school trustees and the board's integrity commissioner sanctioned her last year for violating the board's code of conduct. And that is your World This Hour.
Starting point is 00:04:48 For CBC News, I'm Neal Hurland.

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