Your World Tonight - Man shot by ICE in Minneapolis, Trump threatens more tariffs, Extreme cold snap, and more

Episode Date: January 24, 2026

Minneapolis is once again at a boiling point after another person was shot and killed by an immigration agent. Federal officials insist the man was an imminent danger to officers out doing their job. The city's mayor and Minnesota's governor are urging protesters to keep calm - and again demanding that the raids stop immediately.Also: American importers could soon be paying a lot more for Canadian goods. U.S. president Donald Trump is once again threating tariffs over Canada's growing ties with China. This time, its a 100 per cent levy on all exports from Canada, if the government moves forward with making a deal.And: A massive blast of Arctic air has much of Canada in its grip. Temperatures have plunged to dangerous lows, triggering weather alerts across the country. In the east, ice has shut down Newfoundland's largest power plant, putting the province at risk of an energy emergency.Plus: Political prisoners in Venezuela, Marketplace investigates grocers limiting competition, A Catholic AI chat-bot, and more.

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This is a CBC podcast. You ask us for peace and we give it and we get shot in the face on the streets coming out of a donut shop. Another death in Minneapolis at the hands of federal agents set off clashes in the streets and more demands from the state's leaders for those agents to leave. This is your world tonight. I'm Kate McGilfrey. Also on the podcast, Donald Trump throws another tariff tantrum, threatening an 100% levy on Canadian goods over Canada's growing ties with China. And customers should prepare for short rotating outages and checking in on vulnerable

family members and neighbors. As cold grips the country, ICE has shut down Newfoundland's largest power plant, putting the province at risk of an energy emergency. Minneapolis is once again at a boiling point. New protests are breaking out after another person was shot and killed by an immigration agent. Federal officials insist the man was a danger to officers, as the state's leaders repeat their demands for the raids to stop. Chris Reyes brings us the latest. Another fatal confrontation captured on video by bystanders in Minneapolis. Multiple angles appear to show the moment a man is shot after several federal agents wrestle him to the ground. The city's mayor, Jacob Fry, is furious.

I just saw a video of more than six masked agents pummeling one of our constituents and shooting him to death. How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end? The Department of Homeland Security says they were in pursuit of a man in the country illegally with a criminal history when they were approached by an armed individual. U.S. Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino defended his agent's actions. The agents attempted to disarm the individual, but he violated. violently resisted, fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers.

A Border Patrol agent fired defensive shots. Bovino says the officer who pulled the trigger was a highly trained eight-year Border Patrol veteran. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara contradicts that account. He says police believe the man was a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry. Based on the information that we have, which is very limited, this is a 37-year-old white male who is a Minneapolis resident and we believe he is an American citizen. Family members identified the man as Alex Preti, an intensive care nurse who they say was

upset by the immigration crackdown in his city. The shooting set off another round of protests and clashes with federal police. The Midwestern city has been a tinderbox since the Trump administration deployed thousands of federal agents earlier this month, citing fighting social welfare fraud as the reason. Soon after, a nice agent shot. and killed Renee Good, an unarmed protester. A man was shot days later in another confrontation. Minnesota Governor Tim Walls is urging residents to keep the peace. He has also issued this challenge to the president. Donald Trump, I call on you once again, remove this force from Minnesota. They are showing chaos and violence. Wals is demanding an independent review of the shooting,

telling the White House that federal agencies can't be trusted to lead the investigation. Trump showed no signs of backing down. In multiple posts on truth social, he accused state and city officials of inciting insurrection and using the face off with federal agents as a cover-up for fraud. Chris Reyes, CBC News, New York. A blast of Arctic air has much of Canada in its grip this weekend. Temperatures have plunged to dangerous lows, triggering weather alerts right across the country. One province is also warning residents to prepare for a possible energy emergency. Philip Leashanick reports. My zipper broke out my jacket. It was so cold out, man.

In downtown Winnipeg, Rick James braves a minus 47 Celsius wind chill with his jacket open. He's originally from Thompson, Manitoba, and doesn't mind the cold. Layer up, that's it. That's all you got to do, man. I got on some sweatpants under the jeans. I got on two sweaters and two jackets and my face warmer, my two get used to it, I guess. Yeah. We're Canadian, so yeah. From Jasper, Alberta to St. John's Newfoundland, Environment and Climate Change Canada issued alerts due to extreme cold weather. This is colder air than what we've seen in past winters,

especially parts of southern Ontario. Meteorologist Eric Tomlinson says temperatures this low haven't been felt since winter 2023. We have high pressure over Alaska and Greenland, and it's allowing the jet stream to sink very far south. It allows that colder Arctic air, that polar vortex that we speak of constantly to meander a little bit further south. The agency is warning that vulnerable populations, the elderly and those without a home, are most at risk. Two people froze to death on the streets of Ottawa last year.

Peter Tilly of the Ottawa Missions, his staff are out looking for people sleeping outside, but resources are stretched. Since the pandemic broke, full beds, full mats every night, it's just going to be more challenging. on these cold nights to find a place for people to sleep. In Montreal, Samir Firdi says this winter has been unusual, switching between very mild and extreme cold. So people should get used to that. But it's not predictable, that's the thing. Goes up and down.

This extreme cold spell has put pressure on power systems in Newfoundland and Labrador. If you ever tried to drink one of those gas stations, slush you drinks, what happens is that inevitably the ice gets stuck in your straw. Rob Collette of Newfoundland Hydro says the Bay Despair power plant is offline for the first time in decades because water cannot power the turbines. The phenomenon called frazzle ice is linked to climate change. Sheet ice over the bay has melted and frozen with wild swings in temperature.

The sudden snap of cold weather and severe winds stirred up this reservoir into a kind of a churn of slush. Divers with special equipment are working to remove the ice from the intake tubes, but the utility warns of rotating outages as frigid temperatures settle over the region. Fulte-Shanock, CBC News, Toronto. A separate blockbuster winter storm is moving across the U.S. Some 200 million Americans are facing freezing temperatures, snow, and dangerous ice this weekend. Thousands of flights have been canceled, and officials are warning that potentially catastrophic weather could make road travel,

all but impossible. North Carolina governor, Josh Stein, says that's not the only concern. Please plan for the possibility that you'll not only be stuck at home for a few days, but that you may be without power. Ice accumulation is heavier than snow, and it can knock over trees, which can then fall on power lines. At least 100,000 customers across the U.S. are already without power, with a storm still yet to reach the densely populated East Coast. Meanwhile, Canada, Canada, United, U.S. relations have taken a chilly turn this weekend. After Prime Minister Mark Carney's trade mission to Beijing, followed by his fiery speech in Davos, the U.S. President is responding.

He's threatening a 100% tariff on all Canadian goods to the U.S. if Canada makes a deal with China. Rafi Bucci Canyon reports. Minister, any reaction to Donald Trump's latest threats here? Huddled for a weekend planning session ahead of Parliament resuming next week, Canada's governing liberal caucus once again finds itself responding to the latest rhetorical salvo by U.S. President Donald Trump targeting this country. Well, it is what it is.

Identity Minister Mark Miller says his government should not ignore the pair of social media posts criticizing Ottawa for creating new economic ties with Beijing. It's a serious statement. We'll take it seriously. For his justice counterpart, Sean Fraser, that means taking steps toward more trade diversification as laid out by Prime Minister Mark Carney. need to build an economy that can stand on its own two feet, making it easier to do big things at home. Carney signed an agreement with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a visit to China just over a

week ago, allowing Chinese electric vehicles to enter Canada again after a two-year ban. In exchange for the expectation, China would lower tariffs on Canadian exports of food like seafood and canola. Trump initially did not bat an eye. It's okay. That's what he should be doing. It's a good thing for him to sign a trade. If you could get a deal with China, you should do this.

So what changed? Middle powers must act together because if we're not at the table, we're on the menu. Carney's landmark speech in Davos this week, calling for middle powers to unite in diversifying their trade relationships. He never named Trump, but did say this. Great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons. As soon as I heard Carney speak, I thought we'll hear more from Mr. Trump. Colin Robertson is a former Canadian diplomat now with the Canadian. Canadian Global Affairs Institute.

He says Trump's retaliation was bound to come specially given the warm reception Carney got for his words. And he says Canada should keep on its diversification strategy despite what the U.S. administration may do next. It will require great skill, but

I think, as the prime minister might say, keep calm, carry on and stick to the game plan. For Moshe Lander, Trump's threat may also be related to upcoming renegotiations expected this year for Kuzma, Canada's free trade deal with the U.S. and Mexico. Lander is an economist at Concordia University in Montreal.

Trump realizes that when it comes time to renegotiate Kuzma and whatever form he envisions it, Canada might have the ability to push back and say, we're not going to agree to that because we don't have to agree to that. It's unclear when's the last time Trump and Carney spoke, a question the Prime Minister will no doubt hear from his caucus tomorrow as he joins them for their retreat. Rafi Bucci Khan, Yon CBC News, Ottawa. China's embassy in Canada has responded to the economic threats coming from the U.S.

It says improving Canada-China relations serves the common interests of the two countries and contributes to peace, stability, development and prosperity in the world. Still ahead, finding God in the machine. Pope Leo says addressing risky artificial intelligence is a key priority for him, but he's giving his blessing to a Canadian project that's true. trying to perfect a Catholic chatbot. That's coming up on Your World Tonight. A second round of U.S. brokered ceasefire talks between Russia and Ukraine have come to an end.

Representatives of both countries met in Abu Dhabi for negotiations, but there's still no sign any agreements have been reached. Moscow and Kiev say they are both open to further talks, which are set for next weekend. But those on the ground in Ukraine are still suffering from Russian attacks. Hundreds of drones and missiles bombarded critical energy infrastructure in parts of Kiev and Harkif overnight. They knocked out power and heat for over a million people, dealing with sub-zero temperatures and left dozens injured. Venezuela's acting president Delci Rodriguez claims that more than 600 political prisoners have been let go in recent weeks. Rodriguez has promised to continue the releases, but NGOs monitoring the situation say the government's numbers are inflated,

and that the process has been both slow and opaque. Freelance reporter Cody Weddell tells us more from Colombia. In a video, a woman is on her knees outside of a Caracas police station, wailing. I would give my life for my son's freedom, she says. Her name, Evolis Cano. I can't stand this pain anymore, she says. Kano is outside of the police station, along with the family members of other detainees, consider political prisoners by human rights groups.

The authorities are not giving us answers, Kano says. We've given them three lists of political prisoners. Shortly after the U.S. captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, the president of the country's legislature, Jorge Rodriguez, announced a significant number of prisoners would be released. But the releases have been slow, says Diego Casanova with the committee for the release of political prisoners. According to that group's count, authorities have released just over 150 prisoners in the

week since the announcement. Well over 1,000 remain. Another NGO called FOTO Penal puts the number at nearly 800. Among them, 28-year-old Carmen Arangorren. Unable to wait outside of the prison where she's being held, her family pleads for her release on social media. Her cousin, Louisa Ana Quintero, says Arangoran was arrested in December, 2023 and charged with illegal immigration, terrorism,

and organized crime. After authorities found messages with Aranguran on the phone of a U.S. citizen who was detained in the country. She is losing her life and future for something she didn't even do, Quintero says. Charges like terrorism, conspiracy, and hate speech have been weaponized by the Venezuelan government, according to D.E. Diego Casanova to pursue anyone associated with internal dissidents or hostile foreign nations or their citizens. Outside of the Caracas police station, Ebeliskano confronts security officials saying she and the other families are tired of their harassment. I'm not afraid of you, Kano says.

of fear in Venezuela are over. It remains to be seen whether that is true or if the slow release of political prisoners is assigned Venezuela's internal security structure is holding tight. Cody Weddle for CBC News, Bogota. This week's marketplace investigation is revealing the control that big grocers can use to limit their competition. Our journalists dug through property records across the country. They found legal language and lease agreements and property titles that gives some grocery giants exclusive rights to sell food in a given area. The Competition Bureau is calling for that practice to be restricted,

and one province is going even further than that. Marketplace co-host Chris Glover has more. At her Picton, Ontario home, Theresa Petrie has been squirling away all her grocery receipts since 2022. You quite literally actually have the receipts. Marketplace examined her bills and found price increases far, higher than the 7.4% general inflation over that time. Take her red peppers. They went from $6.59 a kilogram in 2022 to $11 most recently. That is an increase, Teresa, of 67% from 2022.

I knew it was a lot, but yeah, that's insane. On the drive to her local grocer, Petrie points out a grocery store problem she sees in her community. Everything's King Walmart's now There's no small guys anymore. She and many industry experts say that lack of competitors contributes to rising food prices. In the parking lot of her local food land owned by Sobe's, we show Petrie the store's lease agreement, including something called a property control.

It says no other businesses can sell fresh groceries in the plaza without Sobe's approval. It also means the plaza's dollarama is only allowed to sell non-perishable food and not at a deep discount to lure. people in. It's not right. It's not right. I mean, and what are we going to do? Marketplace dug up dozens of property records and found grocery stores with property controls across Canada, essentially their restrictions on a parcel of land, deals between the owner and a retailer commonly included in lease agreements. Property controls can be a very significant barrier.

Anthony DeRosha is the Competition Bureau's acting senior deputy commissioner, leading an ongoing investigation into grocer's use of property controls. It really does undermine the competitive process when there are clear limitations. And this doesn't just impact grocers. This also impacts small businesses such as bakeries. He's calling on grocers to stop using property controls and provinces to take action, like Manitoba did last year. I don't think one grocery store should be able to prevent another one from opening up shop. Premier Wab Cano's government

passed a law seeking to ban property controls in the grocery sector. One Canadian grocer is fighting to keep its controls in place. Sobees requested exemptions for 43 of its stores throughout Manitoba. Sobys didn't respond to our requests. Metro declined to comment and Loblaws

sent a statement. Loblaz says it's released 150 of its property controls in Canada and will stop the practice if other grocers agree to. Back out the Picton food land. I mean, truly, it's ridiculous. I mean, to say you can have that much control.

Shopper Matt Rohnen can't believe one grocery store can block competitors like this. It makes you feel helpless. I think we're playing against a stacked end, right? Like, someone's holding all the cards and now all of a sudden we're going to be left to pay more. The Picton, Ontario man says he'll be watching closely to see whether other provinces follow Manitoba's lead and whether that. has any impact on the prices he pays. Chris Glover, CBC News, picked in. The city of St. John New Brunswick is being hailed as a hidden gem for AI development. At least, that's the pitch from a U.S.-based company that's hoping to build a data center in the area.

They're hoping for access to New Brunswick's wealth of unused fiber optic cables. But as Nippon-Tawari tells us, locals are skeptical about the project's benefits. The reality is these data centers are going to be built. They will be built. At a community meeting last November in Lorneville, New Brunswick, Nathan O., CEO of the Texas-based Volta Grid, announced his company's intention to build an AI data center in the small community based in St. John. O says the town was chosen because of its underutilized fiber optic system.

He's referring to dark fiber, fiber optic cables that transmit data at high speeds that are currently unused. Oh, isn't the only one who thinks New Brunswick is rich with this resource? New Brunswick has been described as a hidden jam by others in the business space for its dark fiber and its affordability. Former Premier Frank McKenna attributes it to the province's former telecommunications company, N.B.Tel. was extraordinarily progressive in terms of wiring New Brunswick and of making sure that we had ample amounts of dark fiber available for whatever use came along. The planned project will be going in the Spruce Lake Industrial Park, which had its zoning conditions changed, to attract large businesses, despite a historic level of opposition.

The push to draw in more large businesses became more urgent after the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, named St. John as Canada's most tariff-exposed city. We've got a lot of challenges in front of us, and we're going to have to take advantage of every single opportunity that we have in front of us. The Volta Grid Project, in partnership with Canadian company Beacon AI Centers, is part of a nationwide trend among businesses and governments to secure a foothold in the AI market. Prime Minister Mark Carney's first budget includes over $1 billion over the next five years to boost Canada's AI infrastructure.

But Laurenville residents have concerns about the plans energy needs and the environmental impacts to nearby wetlands and forests. You cannot replace that. You can't replace the use that we get in sports with hiking and 18 trails and quiet and quality of life and a peaceful calm, ocean-side community. You will not replace that. New Browser Green Party leader, David Kuhn, is also skeptical of the project's potential benefits. Is this the kind of community development that the city of St. John is going to benefit from in any significant way? Or is it really just acting as a host for this American company to access our resources, which are cheaper than they are and more plentiful than they are in the U.S.? The project still needs to go through an environmental impact review with the provincial government before it gets the full green light?

The Lorenville community is in the early stages of a judicial review to reverse the city's council decision to expand the industrial park. Nippantawari, CBC News, St. John, New Brunswick. From St. John to St. Peter's Basilica, artificial intelligence and all of its risks are a key priority for Pope Leo the 14th. In his first public remarks as Pope, he warned that AI could reshape the way people understand faith and truth. As the Catholic Church wrestles with those issues, a Canadian in Rome thinks he's got an answer. A Catholic chatbot built to help with pressing moral concerns. Megan Williams reports.

You put down a book, and effectively the robo arm comes down, and it grabs the page and then turns it. In a small dim ground floor office near Rome's main train station, Torontonian Matthew Sanders guides me pass booth-sized robotic scanners, where young women sit on chairs sliding books in and out. Right now we're trying to finish the collective works full of the doctors and fathers of the church. Sanders is the founder and CEO of Magisterium AI, the most popular Catholic-oriented alternative to chat GPT, designed to answer theological and moral questions.

He says general AI systems struggle with getting answers right to Catholic queries because the church's teaching is just a tiny fraction of what they're trained on. We always say never trust in AI in faith alone. Magistarium AI may not be 100% accurate either, but Sanders wants to get it as close as possible, providing moral advice that comes with citations, pointing users to popes, councils, and official documents. After just a few years up and running, the platform is now used in more than 180 countries,

mostly by priests, bishops, and teachers, but more and more by ordinary Catholics, working through personal challenges like addiction or anger. There's a lot more people who are struggling with a burdened conscience, and what they're trying to figure out is how serious is the sin. Magisterium AI isn't officially approved by the Vatican. because unlike books, which can be, a large language system is constantly evolving. Still, Sanders has received a personal letter from Pope Leo, praising the project's intention and seriousness.

May your collaboration bear fruit in AI that reflects the creator's design. Pope Leo's interests reflects a much wider shift. Father Michael Baggett is a Catholic theologian and bioethicist at the Regina Apostolorum University here in Rome. We're starting to see AI systems already entering into. this territory, people are turning to large language models with their deepest spiritual questions. Bagot, who's on the board of Magistarium, says AI can offer a private space to work through doubts and struggles, as long as it eventually leads people back to real relationships and real community.

He sees strong continuity between Pope Francis and Leo the 14th. This deep concern with the dignity of workers. That concern reaches back to Leo the 13th. whose 19th century encyclical on workers' rights inspired the new Pope's name. Today we are in a culture where the technological dimension is present in almost everything. Bagot says Leo gets the economic and identity risk AI poses. Job displacement is going to really push people to deep existential questions about their purpose in life beyond economic utility. AI ethicist Virginia Dingham says the Catholic Church's

emphasis on the dignity of human beings is where it can make an important contribution. AI is an artifact that we people develop. So we have the choices in terms of how we develop, when we develop. It's a very concrete set of choice by people. For Sanders, that choice is ultimately about empowerment. The main goal of Magistarium AI, he says, is to give ordinary Catholics easy access to the church's intellectual tradition. Many, for the first time. I think there's a real opportunity to kind of universalize access to the wisdom and insight of the church. Whether the Catholic Church sees AI in the same terms is an open question. But under Pope Leo, it's clearly moved onto the agenda. Megan Williams, CBC News, Rome.

For Crystal Shawanda, singing is healing. And the blues musician came to her most recent album with some things to work through. She'd lost a friend to addiction, and she was was wrestling with the grief. Shawanda is from Wikwemakong on Manitoulin Island, and by 16 she'd picked up and moved to Nashville. Though that is still her home base, she's still beloved by blues fans on this

side of the border. In fact, she just picked up five nominations from the Canadian Blues Music Awards. Shawanda got nods for her vocals, her album, and her title track Sing Pretty Blues. A few months ago, she told the CBC that the seed for that song was planted,

during a single conversation with a photographer. I just finished the show, and he said, hey, Crystal, that was a great show. I think I got some good pictures, but I'm not sure because you don't really sing pretty. And I could have taken that either way, but I decided to take it as a compliment, because he's right, I don't sing pretty. When I'm on stage, I scrunch up my face, because I don't really care what I look like because I am releasing. I am healing myself. Let's look at the facts.

It's late January. It's freezing cold. the sky is dark, the headlines are darker. Maybe tonight's a night where you could use some healing. When I sing on stage, it's like medicine. I'm singing the words like I mean every bit of it because I want the people in the audience to know that I've been there and I've made it through and you're going to make it through too.

We'll go out on a bit more Crystal Shawanda. This has been Your World Tonight for Saturday, January 24th. I'm Kate McGilvery. Thanks for listening and stay warm. For more CBC podcasts, go to cBC.ca.ca slash podcasts.