The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/18 at 14:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/18 at 14:00 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.

I may do it. I may not do it. I mean nobody knows what I'm gonna do. Donald Trump isn't ruling out the possibility of Washington joining Israel's attacks on Iran. The US president says a decision could be made within a matter of days. Israeli airstrikes began last week with the stated aim of destroying Iran's rapidly growing nuclear capabilities. Trump accuses Tehran of negotiating in bad faith and adds his patience has run out. Iran's got a lot of trouble and they want to negotiate and I said why didn't you negotiate with me before all this death and destruction? Iran's supreme leader today rejected Trump's calls for an unconditional surrender. He warned the US would face dire consequences if it decided

to get more directly involved. Such a move would also be unpopular among Trump's staunchest supporters. The president had campaigned heavily on avoiding foreign military interventions. Canada's spy agency is warning foreign interference and espionage in Canada is pervasive, sophisticated, and persistent. In a report released today, CSIS warns that all levels of government, businesses, and ethnic communities are targets. David Thurton has more. CSIS blames a handful of countries for foreign interference. China, India, Russia, Iran, and Pakistan are mentioned.

According to the spy agency's annual report, these foreign states are committed to harming Canada's national security and economy. This takes the form of a range of activities, including cybercrime, coercion and illicit and financial fraud. CSIS even warns Canadian private investigators are caught up in foreign meddling. Canadian PIs, it says, are hired deceptively by hostile state actors under the pretext of uncovering marital infidelity and financial fraud. David Thurton, CBC News, Ottawa. Radio-Canada is reporting that police in Quebec have located and are interviewing a potential

witness in the case of a missing three-year-old girl. Claire Bell was last seen in her LaSalle home on Sunday. Her mother, Rachel Todd, has been charged with child abandonment. Todd is expected to make a court appearance this hour, and police are continuing to search a number of locations and along three highways. In Toronto... We have arrested 20 people, laid 111 charges, including 52 counts of conspiracy to commit murder.

That's Chief Superintendent Joe Matthews talking about the results of a two-year investigation into violence in the tow truck industry. He says a group calling itself the Union was using murder, violence and arson in an attempt to get control of the tow truck industry in the eastern part of the greater Toronto area. Guns and armored vehicles were among items seized by police. Hundreds of residents in Badger, Newfoundland have been ordered to leave their homes as a wildfire threatens their town. The fire started yesterday after a lightning storm passed through the area. Craig Cody is the director of Newfoundland and Labrador's wildfire program.

We will be up into the high and extreme fire hazard rating for the next couple days until we get another rain event. The conditions out on the landscape are right for forest fires right now. Firefighters are using water bombers and helicopters in a bid to contain the fire. There's a province-wide fire ban in place. Population growth in Canada stalled in the first quarter of this year. Statistics Canada says it rose by just over 20,000 people in the first three months of 2025. It's the sixth consecutive quarter of slowing population growth and it follows Ottawa's

decision to lower levels of temporary and permanent immigration. However, the agency says immigration levels remain high compared to pre-pandemic levels. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.