The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/08 at 15:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/08 at 15:00 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 Julianne Heselwood.

Wildfires are forcing a swift evacuation of Sandy Lake First Nation in northwestern Ontario. Flames are burning less than 10 kilometres away from the community. Dolores Kakagamic is chief of Sandy Lake First Nation. She says there was a close call for workers trying to build a fire break. Just engulfed on them real fast. They were trying to help out by creating, what do you call it, those barriers. And they didn't realize how

fast fire would burn and then they got trapped and they pretty much got trapped in a circle but thankfully that's a big a big yard so I think that's what helped them out too. 500 residents have been moved out so far Prime Minister Mark Carney is sending military planes and personnel to help airlift more residents. Poor air quality from the wildfires is expected to improve by tomorrow, that's according to Environment Canada. Eight provinces have been experiencing poor air quality and reduced visibility. Environment Canada meteorologist Jean-Philippe Béguin says a low-pressure system passing through the prairies by Monday is set to bring rain for areas hit by the blazes.

More than 100 wildfires are burning across Canada, forcing thousands of people to evacuate their communities. Ken McMullen is president of the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs. He's urging Ottawa to establish a national agency to coordinate firefighting efforts. A national fire administration is going to ensure better coordination, training and equipment for all firefighters across this country. There are many, many other countries that have some sort of position of a fire administration within federal government.

In fact, Canada will be the only country, G7, that does not have a national fire administration. MacMillan says he has talks scheduled with the federal government next week about creating a national group. He says it's an important way to get resources from one part of the country to the other when wildfires encroach on communities. For the first time in more than 30 years, the U.S. president has ordered soldiers into

Los Angeles. They're members of California's National Guard, sent in after days of protests over raids targeting suspected illegal immigrants. Steve Futterman is in LA with this update. It's been a very tense 24 hours, lots of confrontations in various areas, approaching midnight, past midnight. There were people going after the law enforcement officials, throwing rocks, lots of chanting, lots of flashbangs being used, those tear gas, pepper spray.

Now let's listen to some of the protesters who are very upset with these raids. That is what's prompted all of this, these raids to pick up people who are in the US illegally and deport them. This is the only way that the government is going to hear us, whether we get hurt, whether they gas us, whether they throw whatever they throwing at us. One thing that people are wondering is Donald Trump doing this to make LA an example. If that's the case, the next week is going to be very, very tense indeed. Steve Futterman reporting from Los Angeles.

U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra says Washington will be watching closely as Ottawa shapes its defense budget but will not dictate what the Canadian government must spend. Hoekstra admits Canada's defense spending has been an irritant in the relationship with the U.S. Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukraine used used quote cheap drones to destroy just over a third of Russia's bombing fleet. We have our analytics that we destroyed 34 percent of their strategic air jets and especially those jets which they used to attack our civil infrastructure, people, children.

They killed a lot of people. It's not about hundreds, it's about thousands. In an ABC interview that aired today, the Ukrainian president estimated his country struck down 41 Russian jets in last Sunday's intelligence operation. But the US says that only about 20 were hit, while around 10 were destroyed. Ukraine's drone strikes were a blow to Russia, who throughout the war has frequently reminded the world of its nuclear might. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.