The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/07 at 04:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/07 at 04:00 EDT

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Speaking with reporters yesterday, after a virtual meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney and his fellow premiers, Ford warned that Trump will target Canada's free trade deal with the U.S. and Mexico, known. as Kuzma, and he'll try to renegotiate the deal that shields many Canadian goods from the American tariffs earlier than the 2026 review date. He said Canada has to be ready for anything. He's going to go on record. He's coming full bore out of us. He's not, this isn't going to be a church picnic. This is going to be, let's get down to it and we'll see what happens. I'm, I'm praying that everything's going to go fine. But if it doesn't, I'm going to ask the people, do you trust

President Trump? I don't. Meantime, sweeping new tariffs are now in effect for goods from dozens of countries entering the U.S. last week, the Trump administration extended a deadline for trading partners to reach a new deal with the states. A man in Chilliwack, B.C., has been found not criminally responsible for killing his wife last year after the B.C. Supreme Court found he was suffering from delusions at the time. The court ruling says the man, now 70 years old, killed his wife, who can't be named under a publication ban,

while believing he was saving her from being tortured or raped by people who were targeting the couple. It says the man began acting in unusual and paranoid ways in the lead-up to the killing. The question of whether NATO countries such as Canada should pour billions of fresh defense dollars into high-tech, high-cost weapon systems or cheaper disposable technology is coming into sharper focus. A new report says sanctions have eroded Russia's tech sector, and they'll be forced to get by with weapons that are good enough. Murray Brewster has more. This is a long, long-running debate. Andrew Rusilius is a former Canadian Defense Department Arms Control expert. NATO nations, including Canada, are trying to figure out these days where to put

their money. Another $9.3 billion going into this country's defense budget this year, all of it for badly needed new equipment. A new report by the UK-based Chatham House says sanctions are forcing Russia to produce less sophisticated military hardware. NATO has always had the technological edge over Russia, and Rosulia says going forward in deciding between quantity versus quality, governments like Canada are going to have to look not at defense spending targets, but at what makes sense militarily to deter Russia and potentially its allies. Ukrainian intelligence has warned Russia is training North Korean workers to mass-produce Shaheed drones, something bound to increase tensions in the Pacific.

Marie Brewster, CBC News, Ottawa. Well, Victoria Mboko has done it. The 18-year-old Canadian tennis player has advanced to the finals of the National Bank Open in Montreal, beating her opponent in the semis last night. Sarah Levitt was there. She has done it again, the new Canadian queen of the court. Victoria Mboko now onto her first ever major final in the big leagues. The storybook continues.

The 18-year-old came into Montreal's National Bank open relatively unknown, but her smashing success has won over the crowd. She says she's grateful for it. Playing in front of the home crowd obviously has its advantages. You know, you always have everyone pumping you up as much as, as much as they can. Tournament director Valéry Tetreau has watched it all with excitement. Just a couple months ago, she was probably the one still talking about who her role models were.

Mboko has gained quite the fan base, and her success at this tournament means she's ensured a spot at the U.S. Open's main draw at the end of the month, a first for her at a grand slam. But right now, the finals here in Montreal. Sarah Levitt's CBC News, Montreal. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland.