The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/04 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/04 at 16:00 EDT

The ocean is vast, beautiful, and lawless. I'm Ian Urbina back with an all new season of The Outlaw Ocean. The stories we bring you this season are literally life or death. We look into the shocking prevalence of forced labor, mine boggling overfishing, migrants hunted and captured. The Outlaw Ocean takes you where others won't. Available on CBC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.

Officials expect tough days ahead in parts of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Environment Canada is forecasting dry and windy weather in areas including the northern town of Larrange, Saskatchewan, and Flintlawn, Manitoba. More than 30,000 people in the two provinces have been forced to leave their homes because of wildfires. Cameron McIntosh reports. Water bombing helicopters fly over Larrange. As a store below burns. They're dropping water. Holy smokes!

Firefighters captured video on the ground as they desperately tried to save the building but lost. The Pissue Fire has now taken a couple of big buildings here. Across Saskatchewan there are 21 active wildfires that have already claimed about 400 homes and buildings. 9,000 people have fled their homes in more than 35 communities. Premier Scott Moe says the number of evacuees could rise to 15,000. I've never seen anything like it. In the way of the ferocity of the fires, how quickly they're moving, how they're changing and encroaching on communities in maybe different ways.

Under hot dry conditions the fires are still growing and still spreading across the prairies. Cameron McIntosh, CBC News, Prince Albert. The Bank of Canada is holding the interest rate unchanged for the second time in a row. It remains at 2.75 percent. Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem admits setting the rate is a tough balancing act. He points to unusual uncertainty in the economy due to US tariffs. This uncertainty already translating into higher unemployment. Prime Minister Mark Carney hasn't yet issued a formal response to Donald Trump's tariff hike on steel and aluminum imports. He does say that progress is being made in the trade

negotiations with the US, but he's condemning the increase. The latest tariffs on steel and aluminum are unjustified. They're illegal. They're bad for American workers, bad for American industry, and of course for Canadian industry as well. We have counter tariffs in a gross amount before remissions on over 90 billion of U.S. imports. We've acted strong. Those are in place. Karni says Ottawa will retaliate if U.S. talks don't continue to progress. Steel and aluminum entering the U.S. is now subject to a 50% surcharge, double what it was yesterday. The

Conservatives are accusing the Liberals of backing off their tough stance adopted during the campaign and they're calling for an emergency debate on the tariffs. Donald Trump says he had a phone conversation with Russia's Vladimir Putin. In a social media post the president calls it a good discussion but not one that will lead to immediate peace in Ukraine. Trump says Putin spoke about the recent Ukrainian drone attacks against Russia and told him Moscow will have to respond. Putin also offered Trump Russia's help in the nuclear negotiations with Iran. The Stanley Cup final is here and it's rematch that many Canadians are hoping will end a

little bit differently. Sam Sampson has more. Let's go Oilers! Get ready to hear more of this Canada. The Edmonton Oilers are once again this country's chance at bringing home a Stanley Cup. Should they win, the Oilers would be the first Canadian team to take the trophy in 32 years. The chance to break this dry spell evaded the Oilers last year when the Florida Panthers beat them after seven grueling games.

Oilers head coach Chris Knobloch says that history, in a way, is an advantage. They still play the same system, same style. I think it helps us get prepared to play them. Quinn Phillips, co-host of Edmonton-based The Bits podcast, hopes the Oilers can get a win at home to kick off the final. It is an entirely different series emotionally and physically if the Oilers can get a win at home to kick off the final. It is an entirely different series emotionally and physically if the Oilers can find a way to win one of those first two games because then you're not digging out of a monster hole. Fans hope home ice creates a hot start for the Oilers before heading down to play in

Panther territory. Sam Sampson, CBC News, Edmonton. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.