The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/08 at 19:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/08 at 19:00 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 Hazelwood.

We begin in Los Angeles with the ongoing clashes between federal law enforcement and protesters. In response to raids, targeting suspected undocumented immigrants. For the first time in more than 30 years, the U.S. president has ordered California's National Guard into Los Angeles. Steve Futterman has this update from LA. There have been more tense moments today here in downtown Los Angeles as thousands of protesters, I would say approaching 10,000, maybe even more, have shown up in downtown LA to complain about these ICE raids. Now, so far there have been a few skirmishes.

The National Guard, the law enforcement people down here have at some points fired some tear gas, fired some pepper spray, but it has not gotten completely out of control. The big worry is this evening after this large rally comes to an end, the thousands of people attending are going to be going to the detention center where many of the detainees at least initially were held, and that is where we could have some problems. Steve Futterman for CBC News, Los Angeles. Wildfires are forcing a swift evacuation of Sandy Lake First Nation in northwestern

Ontario. Flames are burning less than 10 kilometers 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 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 has sent military planes and personnel to help airlift more residents. 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. McMullen 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. Air quality has improved across most of Quebec and Ontario. Environment Canada says that's thanks to a change in the winds. The federal department lifted air quality alerts for most parts of both provinces after two days of hazy wildfire smoke. Special air quality warnings remain in place for some areas

including parts of northern Ontario near the wildfires. In Bogota, Colombia thousands marched to show support for presidential candidate Miguel Urebe, after he was shot at a campaign event yesterday. His wife says the 39-year-old conservative senator is in intensive care. The attorney general's office says a 15-year-old was arrested. The federal government is also investigating if there were any accomplices. US 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 US.

Canada has never met NATO's existing spending target of 2% of GDP since it was established in 2006. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.