The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/08 at 04:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/08 at 04:00 EDT

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is climbing and the flames in Western Canada are sending smoke into the atmosphere, prompting air quality warnings to the east and in parts of the United States. Sam Sampson has more. What if we come home to nothing? I'm gonna have to start all over for my kids. Snow Lake is the latest community under evacuation order in Manitoba under threat from one of the 28 wildfires in that province. Everyone had to be out by noon on Saturday. Wildfires have forced 18,000 people in Manitoba out of their homes, and it's not much better heading west. 33 communities in Saskatchewan have been forced to evacuate due to 24 wildfires.

Next door, a fire that started in BC recently crossed into Alberta, forcing people from their homes in both provinces. Coast to coast, we're under an air quality warning or statement. Rebecca Sorey, Canada research chair in global change, atmosphere and health, says wildfire smoke traveling across Canada is a risk to everyone, but it's sensitive people like seniors and children who should take extra precautions, not just in provinces that are burning, but across Canada. Sam Sampson, CBC News, Edmonton. A fire in northwestern Ontario has prompted an evacuation order. Sandy Lake First Nation is near the border with Manitoba. Officials say the fire is spreading close to the community and all residents

are ordered to leave. Sandy Lake First Nation has a total population of just over 3,100 with over 2,600 residing on the reserve. And Canada is again dealing with massive wildfires and the increasing severity of the natural disasters is swelling the demand for water bomber planes. But as Darren Major reports, it may be years before Canada gets a new one. The problem is right now it's taken four years to produce more

more water bombers. Ontario Premier Doug Ford was speaking last week ahead of the First Minister's meeting in Saskatchewan, one of the provinces currently gripped by massive wildfires. And he wasn't the only one anxious to get a new order of water bombers. Manitoba Premier Wab Kanu said his province is also waiting for three planes. We're not going to get delivery of them for five years. The Canadian-made CL-415, one of the most commonly used amphibious scoopers, hasn't been manufactured in a decade. De Havilland Canada bought the rights to the model in 2016 from Bombardier and started

production on a newer model just this year. But provinces are contending with international buyers who beat them to the punch. A number of European countries had orders in place years before the plant came online. John Gratick, an aviation management lecturer at McGill University, says that means Canada might not get one until 2030. The demand for these airplanes has skyrocketed. Darren Major, CBC News, Ottawa. The demand for these airplanes has skyrocketed. Darren Major, CBC News, Ottawa.

In Columbia. People rush a man into a waiting ambulance after he was shot. Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe-Turbe suffered critical injuries after being shot twice from behind in Bogota Saturday, as he hosted a campaign event at a city park. One of the shooters, reported to be just 15, was arrested on scene. The 39-year-old Uribe Turbe is a member of the opposition Conservative Democratic Center Party and considered a possible candidate in the country's presidential election next year.

In a release statement, the Colombian presidency condemned the shooting. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says his country condemns, quote, the attempted assassination. For the first time in nearly six decades, two Canadian quarterbacks went head-to-head in the opening game of a CFL season. As seen on TSN, Edmonton's Trey Ford, an Niagara Falls, Ontario native, and B.C.'s Nathan Rourke of Victoria started for their respective teams. Rourke threw for three touchdowns and over 300 yards as the Lions beat the Alks 31-14 in Vancouver, the last time two quarterbacks went head-to-head at the start of a season from Canada, 1968.

And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fade.