The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/05 at 10:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 5, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/05 at 10:00 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, it's the World This Hour.

I'm Joe Cummings. For the first time since the Trump tariffs were rolled out, we're getting details today on the damage being done to the Canadian economy. And it's significant. Scott Peterson reports. We're going from the theoretical, how might the tariffs affect the Canadian economy,

to seeing some real hard evidence about how dramatic these tariffs are impacting our exports in particular. Our merchandise trade deficit was $7.1 billion, the largest that we've ever had on record. Exports down 11%. Imports too down about three and a half percent. Another metric to use here is the exports of motor vehicles and parts down dramatically, about 17.5%. Passenger cars, light trucks down 23%. And finally, the exports of consumer goods down about 15.5% to about $7 billion in April. Crude oil exports down, energy down,

and the response so far has been quick. Economists calling this surprisingly ugly, saying that Canada will not be out of the woods for a few months, and really underlining the problem going forward is the uncertainty or the certainty of more confusion regarding that the implementation of tariffs in the future. Scott Peterson, CBC News, Toronto. Meanwhile, Canadian steel company executives and union officials are in Ottawa today looking to convince the federal government to respond to US President

Trump's latest tariff hike. Along with Ontario Premier Doug Ford, they want Ottawa to implement matching tariffs and retaliation to the Trump move this week that doubles American tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum. As it stands now, Prime Minister Mark Carney is insisting his government will take time to craft a response while it continues to hold talks with the Trump White House. Following a special operation carried out in southern Gaza, the Israeli military has recovered the bodies of Canadian Judy Weinstein Hagge and her husband Gedi. On to the news breaking this morning on Israeli radio, the couple was among the victims of the Hamas attacks on October 7th.

Their remains were recovered just outside Hanunis. Judy Weinstein Hagy was born in New York but grew up in Toronto. Most recently she'd been teaching English to children with special needs at a kibbutz near the Gaza border. Prime Minister Carney calls him a naval officer, a history-making astronaut, and a public servant of exceptional distinction. He's referring to Mark Garnot, who died yesterday at the age of 76. Kate McKenna reports.

He really had a devotion to, not that we didn't have a devotion to Canada, but his was different. Canadian astronaut Roberta Bondar says for her former colleague Mark Garneau it was always about Canada. For Mark it was not just him showing Canadians that we had a place and a role in Canada in the space program but it was also really to show the Americans that we had not just the talent of a Canadarm but we had people who could back it up. As Canada's first astronaut to go to space, Garneau is being remembered as a trailblazer.

The man was a giant. He left a mark on his former colleague, Liberal MP James Maloney. From 2008 until 2023, Garneau was an MP for a Montreal area riding, serving in Justin Trudeau's cabinet as Minister of Transport and Foreign Affairs. Others paying tribute on social media include astronaut Chris Hadfield, serving in Justin Trudeau's cabinet as Minister of Transport and Foreign Affairs. Others paying tribute on social media include astronaut Chris Hadfield, former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Governor General Mary Simon, a testament to a life that Gurnow himself described as a most extraordinary ride. Kate McKenna, CBC News, Ottawa.

Game one of the Stanley Cup final goes to Edmonton. That's Euler forward Leon Dreisaitl with a game winner in overtime as Edmonton defeated the Florida Panthers last night 4-3. The Oilers were down 3-1 at one point but rallied to take that series opener. Game two in this best of seven goes to more night again in Edmonton. And that is the World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.