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

Episode Date: June 15, 2025

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

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Find an agent today at Desjardins.com slash business coverage. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Gina Louise Phillips. Israel and Iran exchanged missile attacks for a third straight day. That's the sound of air raid sirens going off in Jerusalem a few hours ago. At least 10 Israelis were killed and dozens more were injured in overnight attacks, at least seven of them in Bat Yam near Tel Aviv. While in Tehran, explosions were heard overnight and today the Washington based group, human rights activists, say at least 406 people have been killed in Iran since the conflict began last Thursday.

Neither side is showing a willingness to ramp down the violence. Leaders of the world's richest democracies begin arriving in Cananascus, Alberta today for this year's G7 Summit, a meeting that comes at a time when conflicts are growing in Europe and the Middle East. And the global economy is under strain from U.S. President Donald Trump's on-again, off-again tariff policies. Murray Brewster has this preview. I think the stakes are significant. Gordon Holden is a former Canadian diplomat and political science professor at the University

of Alberta who says the Trump administration's imposition of tariffs is destabilizing trading relationships between allies within the G7. Holden says for the sake of the Canadian economy, Prime Minister Mark Carney has a tightrope to walk inside that meeting room. It may feel good to publicly push back, but at a certain point, while standing our ground, we need to try and find some common ground. Senator Peter Beame, Canada's former G7 Deputy Minister, says from his experience, managing Trump can be done.

It's not like everyone is close to fisticuffs or anything. It's a very cordial atmosphere and you can agree to disagree. Expectations are, the summit will produce a series of action statements on issues where the countries can agree. The war in Ukraine will be discussed but it's the escalating attacks between Israel and Iran now high on the agenda. Marie Brewster, CBC News, Banff, Alberta. Wildfires continue to burn across the prairies and BC as this year's wildfire season looks as if it could be the second worst in Canadian history. But cooler weather and rainfall this weekend is helping crews on the ground.

Alexander Silberman explains. In Saskatchewan, crews are continuing to battle wildfires from the air and on the ground. But conditions are improving after some parts of the province received up to 40 millimeters of rain. Shaila Evans and her husband are among more than 10,000 evacuees returning home back in Creighton after fleeing last month. She says fellow evacuees are continuing to face difficulty accessing financial assistance. People are very frustrated and afraid and we feel alone and ignored. Active wildfires are still burning

near communities in Manitoba, Alberta, and Northern Ontario. But in BC, a fire near Squamish is now being held. While some rain is welcome relief for firefighters, experts say nearly double the amount of precipitation is needed to completely put out most fires. Alexander Silberman, CBC News, Regina. The head of Canada's cyber defense agency is providing an update weeks after Nova Scotia Power fell victim to a ransomware attack. The breach compromised the personal data of

about 280,000 customers. Rajiv Gupta is the head of the Canadian Centre for Cybersecurity. He says Nova Scotia Power reported the incident to the agency and encourages other organizations to do the same. We hope that they share information about the compromise as well, because we can take that and share that with other critical infrastructure organizations in Canada as well and help them protect themselves before they also get victimized. So it's kind of like the broader good of Canada if organizations reach out to us and in this case they did so we appreciated that.

Gupta says all organizations should prepare themselves for potential attacks. Our ransomware playbook can be found on the Center for Cyber Security's website. And that's the World This Hour. For news anytime, go to our website cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.