The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/04 at 13:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/04 at 13:00 EDT

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We begin on Parliament Hill. The conservatives are demanding an emergency debate on Donald Trump's tariff hike on steel and aluminum. The government has yet to retaliate. The Prime Minister says that's because Ottawa is seeing movement in negotiations with Washington. Marina von Stackelberg reports. We will take some time, not much, some time, because we are in intensive discussions right now with the Americans. Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada's negotiations with the US on its trading relationship are progressing. That is why Ottawa is waiting to respond to the

latest tariffs from President Donald Trump. Carney points to Canada's current counter tariffs on 90 billion dollars of US imports. We've acted strong. Those are in place. The federal government says money it collects from those measures will support Canadian workers and businesses. Terry Sheehan heads up a group of MPs from different political parties from communities hurt the most. The steel industry will be here tomorrow. We're going to be meeting, talking about what their needs are.

Conservative leader Pierre Poliev is calling for the Liberals to take a strong stance against these latest tariffs. Marina von Stackelberg, CBC News, Ottawa. The Bank of Canada is keeping interest rates as they are. Its key rate remains at 2.75 percent. Bank Governor Tiff Macklem says U.S. trade policy, including today's tariff hike, is the biggest challenge to Canada's economy. Since our April decision, the US administration has continued to increase and roll back various tariffs. The recent further increases in US tariffs on steel and aluminum underline the unpredictability of US trade policy. Macklem says consumers and companies are

bracing for the impact of rising tariffs, adding that businesses say they intend to reduce hiring in the face of economic uncertainty. Officials in northern Saskatchewan say a fire in La Ronge is contained for now. Embers from a nearby wildfire set buildings in the town ablaze. The wreckage includes a historic trading post, which housed a collection of Indigenous art and historical artifacts. Larrange Mayor Joe Hordusky says the weather is right to get air support. Today would be a good day to get some planes in the air and really knock down that perimeter so that it's less challenging for the crew, the firefighters firefighters are on the ground trying to mop things up.

Hrdarsky says almost everyone has left the area except for firefighters. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has dismissed Russia's ceasefire proposal as an ultimatum. Zelenskyy is renewing his call for direct talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. But in a meeting with his ministers Putin showed little willingness for such a meeting. He expressed anger about recent Ukrainian attacks within Russia, calling them acts of terrorism. At least 11 people were killed in a stampede at a cricket stadium in southern India. Dozens of people were also injured. The tragedy happened as crowds of people tried to push their way into the stadium in Bengaluru.

Tens of thousands of cricket fans gathered there to celebrate the city's win of the Indian Premier League tournament. The team had given away free tickets to the event and the celebrations continued even as the chaos unfolded outside. Game one of the Stanley Cup final is set for tonight in Edmonton. It's the Oilers against the Florida Panthers with Edmonton captain Connor McDavid saying his team is prepared and focused on what lies ahead. It can feel like it's larger than it is. At the end of the day it's another series and then we're playing

another great team and you gotta beat them before anything else happens. So they have our complete focus, all of our energies in going into beating the Florida Panthers. There should be nothing else on anyone's mind. This is a repeat of last year's final, which ended with Florida winning the cup in seven games.

For the Panthers franchise, it was their first Stanley Cup. The Oilers have five to their credit. The last one happened 35 years ago. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.