The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/08 at 03:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/08 at 03:00 EDT

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Manitoba wildfires have destroyed about 800,000 hectares of land. The province is still in a state of emergency and will likely remain that way for some times as it deals with 28 total fires, 24 of them considered full response fires, 13 are classified under control. Caroline Bargout has the latest on the efforts to get wildfires under control.

It's really dry. Gary Lejean has never seen the forest this dry. He says normally there's a lot more moisture in the ground in the spring. Lejean is a heavy equipment operator on the front lines of the Manitoba wildfire fight. What happens is you go on the outside of the fire and you try and take the fuel away from the fire. His job is to use a dozer or front-end loader to knock down trees and try to create a fire break to stop flames from spreading. He says most of the time it does the trick. The only time the fire goes over that is if this

big heavy winds. Manitoba remains under a province-wide state of emergency. There are 28 wildfires burning here. Those fires have forced more than 18,000 people from their homes. Peter Thibodeau is one of them. The province says adults registered with the Red Cross will receive $238 a week, but Thibodeau has gotten nothing. A spokesperson for the Red Cross says some evacuees may need to verify their identity in person.

Caroline Bargout, CBC News, in the Paw, Manitoba. In Los Angeles, ICE OUT OF ALICE! protesters voiced their displeasure with the Trump administration Saturday night for their decision to deploy ICE agents in the city. Some of the demonstrations held in Paramount, California, which is south of Los Angeles, the Department of Homeland Security says 118 people have so far been arrested by ICE, including five tied to criminal organizations. Some protesters have thrown items at law enforcement, including a Molotov cocktail, while cars have

been set on fire. No injuries have been reported. U.S. President Donald Trump has deployed 2,000 National Guard troops into the city. Trump took to his social media platform saying that if both Governor Gavin Newsom and the city's Mayor Karen Bass can't do their jobs, then the federal government quote, will step in and solve the problem the way it should be solved. Young Canadians are struggling to find work as they head into the summer. The federal government is rushing in with 25 million dollars to tackle the problem. That money that is going to the Canada Summer Jobs

Program aiming to create up to 6,000 new positions. Benjamin Lopez-Stevens takes a closer look. It sucks just trying over and over and over again to get a job. Mel Purchase is driving around Ontario, dropping off her resume to as many temp agencies as she can. The 19-year-old is eager to find work, but so far no luck. Everyone in high school is trying to find a job, everyone that's just got out of university and college is trying to find a job, everyone in university and college are trying to find a job for the summer. Last month, over 14% of young Canadians, those between 15 and 24 years old, were unemployed.

Now, the federal government is adding $25 million to its summer jobs program. Jobs Minister Patti Hydeau says the money will create up to 6,000 more jobs for young Canadians on top of 70,000 other positions already in the summer jobs program. Ilona Doherty is the co-creator of the Youth and Innovation Project at the University of Waterloo. She says AI is affecting entry-level gigs, plus there's temporary foreign workers too. It's up to the adults. This is not young people's fault.

Benjamin Lopez, Steven, CBC News, Ottawa. Swimmers' summer Macintosh has set a new world record in the pool. She has not let up at all. She's actually picking it up as she comes to the wall. Keep your eye on the clock. 355.38. World record! I'm dead! The 18-year-old Toronto native broke the record in the women's 400-metre freestyle at the Canadian swimming trials in Victoria last night. She beat the previous record held by Australian swimmer Ariane Tipmas.

And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.