The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/05 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 5, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/05 at 16:00 EDT

1942, Europe. Soldiers find a boy surviving alone in the woods. They make him a member of Hitler's army. But what no one would know for decades, he was Jewish. Could a story so unbelievable be true? I'm Dan Goldberg. I'm from CBC's personally, Toy Soldier. Available now wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Juliane Hazelwood. Canada's latest trade numbers show exports to the US have fallen sharply in April, and the gap between how much Canada imports and how much it exports is widening.

Anis Hadari explains. It's all crazy. Flavio Volpe represents auto parts manufacturers in Canada, and his members are seeing what the numbers show. They are making fewer products to head to the United States. We get our production schedules usually a week or two in advance, and we're all seeing reductions in volumes. Motor vehicles and parts exports from Canada down 17.4 percent, but it's not just that industry.

Canada's trade deficit, the difference between how much this country sells and how much it buys from other countries, is at its widest gap on record. We're actually now really starting to feel the hit of these tariffs more broadly. Pedro Antunes is chief economist with the Conference Board of Canada. He says while there is some good news in that exports to other countries went up... The losses that we suffered with the trade with the US have not been in any way made up by our exports to other regions. More numbers showing more concern about how tariffs, real or threatened, are slowing down the Canadian economy. Anise Hedari, CBC News, Calgary.

President Donald Trump says he had a very positive call with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Trump says the two countries will hold trade talks in hopes of breaking an impasse over tariffs. Chinese officials say the call was initiated by Trump. They also say Xi asked Trump to withdraw the negative measures that the US has taken against China. Chinese goods entering the US are now subject to a 30% tariff. The levy was lowered by Trump from a hundred and forty-five percent to allow for talks. Defense Minister David McGinty says Ottawa is refueling its defense spending plans from top to bottom. McGinty is

meeting his NATO counterparts in Brussels, where Ottawa is once again under pressure to ramp up its spending. Our prime minister has been unequivocal. Canada will invest in its defences, rebuild its military capacities and meet the moment with purpose and with urgency. Canada has been struggling to meet the current funding benchmark of 2% of the gross domestic product. That task is likely to become harder. Later this month, NATO leaders will consider boosting defense spending to 5% of GDP following pressure from Washington.

Included in this figure will be investments in infrastructure such as roads, bridges, airfields and seaports needed to deploy armies more quickly. An infant infected with measles has died in Ontario. The province's chief medical officer of health, Dr. Kieran Moore, says the infant contracted the virus before birth from the mother. The mother had not received a measles vaccine. Moore says the birth was premature and the baby faced other serious medical complications unrelated to the virus. Ontario has reported more than 2,000 cases of measles since the outbreak began in October. Parents are being warned about online predators after Ontario provincial police arrested 36 men in a child-learing investigation. One of the accused is on Canada's sex offender registry.

Ali Chyassant reports. We took the initiative. Investigators went undercover, posing as children online and waited for offenders to make contact with them. The operation was part of the provincial strategy to protect children from online sexual exploitation. The Ontario Provincial Police announced they've laid 128 charges. Detective Staff Sergeant Tim Brown here in an OPP produced video posted on social media. Nine victims were identified and 51 ongoing investigations were made. You wouldn't leave

your child alone in a city so don't let them navigate the online world alone. The arrests took place across Ontario including the Niagara and Durham region, London, Ottawa, Barrie, Toronto and one man in Abbotsford BC. In the wake of this child predator bust, police are advising parents to be diligent in policing their child's activity online. Ali Shiasan, CBC News, Toronto. And that is your World This Hour. You can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts updated every hour, seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.