The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2026/01/08 at 07:00 EST

Episode Date: January 8, 2026

The World This Hour for 2026/01/08 at 07:00 EST

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say it was right we will not put up with us that is from a vigil held in the city overnight for 37-year-old rene good she was shot and killed yesterday in an altercation with immigration enforcement agents. A head of U.S. Homeland Security is calling the shooting an act of self-defense against a domestic terrorist. But those at last night's vigil dispute that. A member of our community was killed in this very spot protecting her neighbors. Her name was Renee! Minnesota Governor Tim Walts says the state will be carrying out a full and fair investigation to, quote, ensure accountability and justice. Waltz is also calling the comments from the Trump administration propaganda.

Meanwhile, in the White House, the Trump administration has announced it's withdrawing the United States for more than 60 international organizations, treaties, and UN bodies. It is a sweeping retreat from a range of multilateral engagements, including the long-standing UN Climate Treaty, which is the foundation for ongoing global climate research. John Northcott has more. The pullout from many organizations, and panels is extensive, from climate to labor and migration.

Many are affiliated with the UN, but there are other international bodies as well. There are both explicit and implicit reasons for doing this. The Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a statement, saying these organizations were, quote, redundant, mismanaged, unnecessary, and wasteful, going on to say that they are a threat to U.S. sovereignty, freedoms, and prosperity. Implicitly, within days of capturing Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro, continuing to seize oil tankers around the world and threatening Greenland sovereignty,

all of this indicates the U.S. is increasingly going it alone when it comes to international obligations. A member of a U.S.-based nonprofit advocacy group, the Union for Concerned Scientists, described this latest move as a new low. John Northcott, CBC News, Toronto. U.S. President Trump says it's still not clear at this point how long the United States will maintain its oversight of Venezuela.

But in an interview with the New York Times, he's saying it could be longer than a year. Trump says his administration will be, in the meantime, taking the country's oil, getting oil prices down, and giving money to Venezuela. He also says his officials are getting along well with Venezuelan interim president, Delci Rodriguez. A remote First Nation in northern Ontario says it is looking to evacuate the entire community due to multiple failures in its water supply. The Cossessuan First Nation, a flying community in the western shore of James Bay, says its community water level has significantly dropped thanks to an overworked delivery system that's now more than 30 years old. There are reports of sewage sweeping into people's homes and contaminating fresh water systems. It's believed that more than 900,000 Canadians are taking the GLP1 drugs such as OZMPIC, either for weight loss or obesity. But the question is what happens when people stop taking that medication?

Jennifer Lagasse has more. It just wasn't good enough. Months after starting Ozempic, Heather White quit cold turkey. The Toronto resident said side effects, nausea, and digestive issues were too much. And she's not the only one to ditch the meds. Around 50% of people are discontinuing treatment within 12 months of starting. Sam West is the lead author of new research published in the British Medical Journal. It found that people who stopped taking a weight-lost drug regain the weight, returning to their original size in less than two years.

Certain health benefits from the drugs like lower blood pressure were also reversed when people got off. Sonia Rikert is a family doctor in London, Ontario. She says people are often surprised to hear that weight loss drugs are a lifelong commitment. Obesity is a chronic disease. One major drawback, majority of the studies in this new research didn't, track people for longer than one year. Jennifer LaGrasa, CBC News, Toronto.