The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/07 at 10:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/07 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, the world this hour, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.

Firefighters in Western Canada are bracing for a challenging weekend. Strong winds and warm temperatures could make their jobs even more difficult. Residents of Snow Lake, Manitoba have until noon today to leave. So far more than 18,000 people have been forced from their homes in that province. Meanwhile, Northeastern BC flames have crossed into Alberta, prompting an evacuation order in Grand Prairie. CBC's Linda Ward has the details. There were about 53 properties on evacuation order but around 9 p.m. local time they widened that order south along the BC border. The Quescatanaw River fire in British Columbia now reaching over the Alberta BC border. We've reached out to find out how many more properties

are affected here. The county's fire chief says they're using heavy equipment, sprinklers, night vision helicopters to minimize the impact, but they are urging residents in the evacuation zone to get out now and others on evacuation alert are being told they may have just 30 minutes to leave if they're told to do so. The wind is the culprit here, gusts of up to 75 kilometers per hour whipping up the flames. Fire was expected to spread significantly into the southeast overnight. CBC's Linda Ward in Ukraine now. Firefighters worked to extinguish a fire in a residential building following another Russian assault early this morning in Kharkiv. Local authorities confirmed the latest attacks led to at least three deaths,

wounding at least 21 others. Today's strike is being called the most powerful in the northeastern city since the start of the Russian invasion. After decades of politicians talking about taking down internal trade barriers, there's finally been some action. The federal government aims to reach a benchmark it has set by Canada Day. Host of the House, Catherine Cullen, has more. Internal Trade Minister Christia Freeland says tearing down trade barriers between provinces can be nation building, potentially adding tens of billions, perhaps more, to Canada's economy. On Friday, the government tabled a bill that would end the federal aspect of internal trade barriers. With just two weeks left before the House of Commons rises she insists there's hope the bill could

become law. The reality though is the federal part is the smallest part. Most interprovincial trade barriers don't involve the federal government. They need to be sorted out between provinces. Conservative leader Pierre Polyev says he's glad to see progress on tearing down those internal trade barriers, and this bill is better than nothing. It's a small step, but it is breadcrumbs when we needed a bold move. Polyev argues the federal government should give provinces more incentive by paying bonuses for barriers they remove.

Catherine Cullen, CBC News, Ottawa. Game two of the Stanley Cup finals in Edmonton last night ended in disappointment for the Oilers, Florida scoring on a breakaway in double overtime and evening up the series. CBC's Trevor Party talks about not just the excitement surrounding these games, but also the significance given the recent tensions between Canada and the U.S. A Canadian team hasn't won the Stanley Cup since 1993. That's 32 years ago, the Montreal Canadians. There's also the political overtones, lots of talk about trade tension between Canada and the United States and also the rhetoric about the 51st state.

And what we saw in February during the four nations face off, Canada defeats the United States in overtime in the championship game, Connor McDavid scores the winning goal and I'm thinking many Canadians much rather see the Stanley Cup ceremony on Parliament Hill with the Edmonton Oilers as champions rather than at the White House with the Florida Panthers as champions. That was CBC's Trevor Party. Game three goes down Monday night in Florida. Elbow's up. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.