The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/05 at 15:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 5, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/05 at 15:00 EDT

When a body is discovered 10 miles out to sea, it sparks a mind-blowing police investigation. There's a man living in this address in the name of a deceased. He's one of the most wanted men in the world. This isn't really happening. Officers are finding large sums of money. It's a tale of murder, skullduggery and international intrigue. So who really is he? I'm Sam Mullins and this is Sea of Lies from CBC's Uncovered, available now.

From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Juliane Hazelwood. Industry Minister Melanie Jolie says she's in solution mode following Donald Trump's doubling of tariffs on steel and aluminum. Jolie says she's meeting with steel companies and industry leaders. She also confirms Prime Minister Mark Carney has spoken to Trump in a bid to reach a new agreement, but she won't go into details. We won't negotiate in public and we'll let the Prime Minister do his work and we will let all ministers do their work. Ottawa is trying to reach a tariff deal with the White House before this month's G7 summit. For now, Jolie says Canada needs a stronger domestic

steel sector. She's urging support for an infrastructure bill that would create demand for Canadian-produced metals. Canada posted its largest trade deficit ever in April. The more than $7 billion deficit is a huge increase from $2.3 billion in March. Statistics Canada says slowing trade with the U.S. is behind the increase. April was the first full month of tariffs between Canada and the U.S. Exports to the U.S. fell by more than 15 percent and the imports decreased as well. Canada did export more goods to the rest of the world but not nearly enough to offset the lost trade with the U.S. Officials in countries whose citizens will soon be banned from visiting the United States

are expressing dismay and disbelief. The U.S. President's new sweeping travel ban is part of his immigration crackdown. And Donald Trump in the Oval Office today stands by his ban. Sasha Petrusik reports. The travel ban affects 19 countries most of them are in Africa but also in Asia, South America and the Caribbean. As of Monday most visitors from these states will be denied a visa to the US. Frankly we want to keep bad people out of our country. U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a similar ban on a smaller group of countries in his first term and makes no excuses now. I can say that it can't come soon enough.

The White House says too many visitors from these places overstay their visas. But in cases like Iran and Cuba, they are targeted as so-called state sponsors of terrorism. Still, some Americans don't agree. I like Trump and what he's doing, but I don't know the reasons for what he's doing this. I don't know what kind of threat the positive states. And one country, Chad, is retaliating, blocking American visitors. Sasha Petrusik, CBC News, Washington. Quebec's Immigration Minister is proposing to reduce the number of permanent immigrants

over the next four years. Jean-Francois Roberge is presenting three plans limiting newcomers to between 25 and 45,000 per year. Quebec is also asking Ottawa to reduce by half the number of temporary foreign workers and foreign students under its jurisdiction from 400,000 currently to 200,000 by 2029. Robert says recent immigration has been straining Quebec's social programs. He's expecting to have a final plan ready in November. The weather over the last couple of days has

improved our ability to get some pretty good progress done on these fires. Kristin Hayward is with the Manitoba Wildfire Service. She says cooler temperatures and higher humidity are helping to combat wildfires in the province. The fires have forced more than 17,000 people from their homes in Manitoba alone. 15 communities in the province are under mandatory evacuation orders. Another three are under voluntary evacuation. Premier Wabkanoo says the province has reserved some hotel rooms for people fleeing the fires. The uncertainty we have right now is how long is this going to last. And so that's why we have done this cost sharing matching donation thing with the federal government

towards the Red Cross because people have left communities like Pimichigamack, Flint Flon, Pucketawag, and Snow Lake and many others to Tascoyac. But how long are they going to be out of their homes? Canoe says the province will contribute $15 million to the Red Cross to support evacuees and the federal government will put in 35 million. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julie-Ann Hazelwood.