The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/04 at 01:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/04 at 01:00 EDT

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largest city. The CBC's Dale Monuckduck is at the scene of the mass shooting. Multiple gunshots rang out around 830 p.m. in Toronto's Lawrence Heights neighborhood. Police and paramedics responding to scenes spanning multiple city blocks. Officials later reporting six people had been shot, one of them fatally. Duty senior officer Bah Baheer Sarandhan. Tragically, a man in his 40s pronounced deceased and four other men and one woman, all adults, transported to hospital

with non-life threatening injuries. Police say the victims range in age from 18 to 40. One man who lives nearby declined to give his name, but said he heard what sounded like 10 to 20 gunshots before seeing a bunch of vehicles speeding away. I saw commotion in the alleyway and there was a lot of blood and a lot of people yelling and screaming. Police have since set up a command post in the area.

They say multiple people were involved but there's still no word yet on suspects or what led to the shooting. Dale Menuckacduck CBC news, Toronto US President Donald Trump has just doubled his steel and aluminum tariffs They rose to 50% from 25% tonight Canadian steel and aluminum producers have spent months hoping an already devastating situation would improve But as an easy diary 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

going to be 50%. Trevor Borland 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. 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. Any state RE CBC 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. 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 La Ronge, 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 Larrange, fast moving wildfires 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 B.C. 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 Ontario judge has approved the sale of Hudson's Bay Trademarks to Canadian Tire. The deal will give Canadian Tire rights to the bay name, its coat of arms and the iconic stripes. The deal is valued at $30 million.

And that is your World This Hour. I'm Neil Herland.