The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/06 at 21:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/06 at 21:00 EDT

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name of the new bill tabled today in the House of Commons, but also a cornerstone election pitch by the Prime Minister. Mark Carney wants to fast-track big building projects and break down trade barriers between provinces. Kate McKenna reports. It's a day that has literally been decades in the making. Prime Minister Mark Carney hasn't shied away from setting sky-high expectations. His government introduced one of its first marquee pieces of legislation. First pitched during the election as a way to fight back against the economic carnage of Donald Trump's tariffs, Bill C-5 seeks to remove some federal barriers to inter-provincial

trade and make it easier to get nation-building projects off the ground. It's become too difficult to build in this country. The bill would streamline and speed up the approval process for some projects, including mines, ports and pipelines, identified by the government as being in the national interest. So far, premiers like Quebec's François Legault and Manitoba's Wab Kanou like what they see. When we see we will accelerate the start of projects, I like that very much. Let's put Manitobans to work and let's use that work to build up this country that we love so much. Kate McKenna, CBC News, Ottawa.

In Saskatchewan, two people have now been charged with setting wildfires. Premier Scott Moe. Many, if not virtually all of the fires that we're dealing with in Saskatchewan are, although not intentionally, are human caused. And some of those have been intentionally human caused. The fires in northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba have forced thousands of people to flee their communities. Wildfires have caused poor air quality across large regions of North America. Environment Canada has issued air quality warnings in the northern part of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario. Much of Manitoba is also under a warning.

Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City are also experiencing hazy skies from the wildfires. Toronto in fact briefly had the worst air quality in the world Friday afternoon, due to the smoke, from the wildfires. The RCMP tells CBC News Ryan Wedding's alleged criminal network remains active in Canada. He's the former Team Canada Olympian turned fugitive.

As Thomas Daglet reports, this comes despite efforts to dismantle the Cartel Link Group. It's the first time police confirm Ryan Wedding's alleged murderous drug trafficking network still has a foothold in Canada while the former Olympic snowboarder remains on the run. Last fall authorities in multiple countries arrested more than a dozen of his suspected accomplices. But RCMP Chief Superintendent Chris Leather tells CBC News that large scale operation didn't manage to dismantle the drug ring in Canada.

There certainly are elements of his network that remain in place but I couldn't say much more than that at this time. He points to several ongoing investigations involving the Mounties, Toronto Police and Ontario Provincial Police. US authorities say Wedding could be hiding in Mexico and are offering a reward of up to 10 million dollars for information leading to his arrest. Thomas Daigle, CBC News, Toronto. The man mistakenly deported from Maryland to El Salvador is back in the U.S. Kilmar Abrego Garcia will face criminal charges of transporting illegal immigrants within the U.S.

His case has become a flashpoint for escalating tensions between the White House and the courts. Attorney General Pam Bondi says if convicted, Garcia will serve his sentence in the U.S. before being deported back to El Salvador. The Canadian and European space agencies are renewing a commitment to their partnership. Canada and Canadian space agency president Lisa Campbell. You look at our satellites just above us. They have been essential tools and now power the delivery of many government services, environment, biodiversity, national defense. So increasingly our capacity to observe the Earth from the sky helps us.

She says infrastructure is key to Canada's sovereignty. Canada and the European Space Agency have been collaborating since the early 70s. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.