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

Episode Date: June 6, 2025

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

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Find an agent today at Desjardins.com slash business coverage. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Claude Fague. We begin in Vancouver where a man has been arrested after driving his vehicle into the Pacific Coliseum as a live show was underway last night. Police posted on social media that a 30 year old Vancouver man drove a vehicle into the front entrance of the arena during a Cirque du Soleil performance. No injuries were reported. Arena security detained the man and police officers took him into custody under the Mental

Health Act. Police don't believe the incident is terror related. Well, it has made it through the US House of Representatives and is headed for the US Senate. However, a section of US President Donald Trump's controversial tax reform bill could hit Canadians hard. Elizabeth Thompson explains. Billions, absolutely billions for sure would be the impact.

It's a small obscure clause in a very big bill. But if the U.S. Congress adopts it, experts like Kim Moody say it could cost Canadians and Canadian companies a lot. If Canada and the United States allows this to take hold, the result will be chaos, absolute chaos. The concern centers on Section 899 of US President Donald Trump's one big beautiful bill. If adopted, it would create a new withholding tax on things like dividends from US stocks. It would apply to anyone who lives in a country the US designates as having unfair taxes.

Experts say Canada is likely to be on the list. David McDonald is a senior economist with the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives. He calls Trump's proposal a nuclear option. Just like the U.S. is totally willing to blow up the international trade order, they're totally willing to blow up international tax rules. As for Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne, he's studying Trump's proposal and waiting to see what the U.S. does next. Elizabeth Thompson, CBC News, Ottawa. Meanwhile, a U.S. judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration ban on foreign nationals

entering the U.S. to study at Harvard. Allison Burroughs, a U.S. district judge in Boston, blocked the ban pending further litigation. Harvard had asked for the block, citing an illegal retaliation by Trump, because the school rejected the demands of the White House. The same judge blocked Trump from implementing a separate order last month prohibiting Harvard from enrolling international students. Wildfires are continuing to rage out of control in northern Saskatchewan. The province says nearly a million hectares have burned so far but amid the damage some communities have

gotten good news. The CBC's Alexander Silverman reports. Yeah, but it's good to be home. Lisa Powder and her great-grandchildren are some of the first residents back in Wayaquin, Saskatchewan. After an evacuation order forced them to pack up and leave for a week. There's an actual spot in my brother's backyard where there's a spot that burnt. It was so close.

Their Northern community is still eerily empty. The sky, hazy orange and thick with smoke. It's a good day over there. Sad to come home to see it like this. There's nothing but black around here now. Volunteer firefighter Jordan LaValley helped save the hamlet from widespread damage, but the forest around it is charred. LaValley works at a grocery store in La Ronge, a town still under an evacuation order,

and drove to Wayaquin to help when fire broke out. Seeing it burning while I was at work, I don't know, just kind of devastating. More than 15,000 people are still out of their homes in Saskatchewan. Alexander Silberman, CBC News, of their homes in Saskatchewan. Alexander Silberman, CBC News, Wayaquin, Saskatchewan. The Indiana Pacers have won the opening game of the NBA Finals.

The Pacers scored the winning basket with under a second remaining to beat the Thunder 111-110 in Oklahoma City last night. Shay Gillis Alexander, the native of Hamilton, Ontario, led all scores with 38 points and says his team will lean on past playoff experience to try and bounce back. As much as we can, we just got to treat it like every other game. Every other situation we've been in, yes we haven't been in this situation, but it doesn't mean our character has to change or what we did last time. It's still basketball, still the game of basketball that we grew up playing.

The rules don't change just because we're in the finals." Game two is set for Sunday night. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fage.