Your World Tonight - Montreal shooting, inflation & CPI on the rise, Keir Starmer out, and more

Episode Date: June 22, 2026

A shooting in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood leaves one person and a police officer dead. The suspect was also killed.Also: The high price of everything. Canada’s inflation rate rises to 3.2%, its highest level in more than two years. The cost of gas was the driver. The consumer price index also ticked up. That was led by alcohol and food, especially tomatoes, which have jumped a whopping 45% from a year ago.And: Just two years after his landslide victory, Keir Starmer announces his resignation as UK Prime Minister following a string of missteps and mistakes, and plummeting popularity. He plans to leave his post by September.Plus: Canada’s nuclear ambitions, new stop planned for Alto high-speed rail, behind the scenes of India’s Cockroach Party, and more.

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You'll hear the advice he has for all those contestants who, perform in front of him. Hear that conversation now on Q with Tom Power on your favorite podcast app. This is a CBC podcast. It's a very, very sad day. It's a nightmare. He was a great, great, great police officer. Montreal's police chief on a shooting that killed a police officer and one other victim. What we know following a chaotic day in an island neighborhood. This is your world tonight. I'm Helen Mann. It's Monday, June 22nd, coming up to 6 p.m. Eastern, also on the podcast. Prices have gone up and things are not as fresh as they used to be.

Canadians are paying more at the grocery store. What's behind the price hikes and why there's likely more sticker shock to come. There is grief alongside many questions in Montreal tonight. What started as an emergency alert ended in gunfire and tragedy. One police officer is dead along with a civilian and the gunman. Another officer was hurt. We have Sarah Levitt in Montreal tonight with this fast-moving story. Sarah, that emergency alert issued earlier has been lifted,

but this is an ongoing investigation. What is the latest? Well, what we know is that this police received a call just before noon about a shooter in what's known as the Coat Denej area. His gun seen poking out of a window of a hotel room, and that hotel room in a high-rise shared with condos, on the ground floor. Officers, when they arrived on the scene, they immediately exchanged gunfire with the suspect. The police chief now confirming a male officer was killed. A female officer was injured.

One citizen there was killed and another injured. Police say the shooter was also killed and would only confirm that he was armed with a long range rifle. Here's what Montreal Police Chief Fadi Degger had to say about the officer. involved. It's a very, very sad day. It's a nightmare. And, but we have to be solid. We have to be solid for our lady police officer who survived and we're all behind her. But he was a great, great, great police officer, a lot of credibility and he was so passionate. And Helen, for some time, it wasn't clear if the shooter had acted alone. And so police set up quite a wide perimeter, having St. Joseph's Oratory, which is about five kilometers from the actual shooting, it was evacuated. In the end, they believe the shooter acted alone, the motive, though, unclear at this time.

Sarah, tell us about the neighborhood where the shooting happened and what witnesses are saying. Yeah, so this is a densely populated place. I mentioned the high rise, but there's also a highway nearby, many businesses, even a park with play structures. There were many witnesses to this crossfire, including Brandon Besimol El-Kai. I saw parents ripping their kids off of the play of structure. They were running for their life. It was very clear to me that there was something serious going on there. And that's when we heard a second round of gunshots, about two dozen. And they sounded much closer at this time.

And then shortly after the police presence just swarmed. Another witness described seeing the suspect actually up close reloading their rifle. She said when she saw that, that's when she ran away as fast as she could. It's a traumatic situation ending in the death of a police officer, the civilian and the shooter. And now the province's police watchdog will take over this investigation. All right, Sarah, thank you. You're welcome. Sarah Levitt reporting from Montreal.

Two RCMP officers were also shot in Saskatchewan. It happened Sunday night in Melville. Police say they were at a home in the city's northwest, investigating reports of an assault. One man is in custody. No word yet on charges. The injured officers were sent to hospital. They are both in stable condition.

Canadians don't need the Consumer Price Index to tell them. The cost of just about everything continues to climb faster than wages. But the latest numbers confirm just how much inflation is squeezing people. And some of the biggest sticker shock? Basic necessities you can't really avoid buying. Anise Hadari has that story. Please begin scanning. The prices Canadians pay are going up faster again.

The inflation rate, year over year, was up in May, 3.2%. Food, especially fruits and vegetables, was a big driver. 599. And these shoppers in Winnipeg are noticing. are unhappy. I can't do anything about it. We are a lot more careful about how we buy our produce, what we buy. Prices have gone up and things are not as fresh as they used to be. In particular, the price of tomatoes saw a big jump in May, up more than 45% compared to the year before.

Bad weather and fewer crops planted in Mexico over tariff threats are a part of what drove up costs. But overall, vegetables are up 9%. We're starting to see the impact of transportation. costs. Mike von Masso is a food economist at the University of Guelph. While there are many reasons these prices are jumping, the cost to get fresh food to Canadians is always a factor. The transportation represents about three and a half percent of the retail price of food. For vegetables, that's much higher. They're less processed. They're coming from further away. So we're probably looking at something closer to 10 to 15 percent. And the cost of transportation is usually,

related to the price of fuel. That's been going up too. Gasoline saw big jumps in price, given war and uncertainty with oil supplies around the Persian Gulf. There will likely be further priced increases for energy intensive goods and services. Michael Davenport has senior economist with Oxford economics in Toronto. So things like food, household necessities, things of that nature, households are having to devote a larger share of their budget towards those purchases versus more discretionary goods and services. But if you take gasoline prices out of the mix, inflation was a little more muted, a full percentage point less, without gas. So what it tells us is, you know, perhaps this oil price shock hasn't yet translated

into broader inflationary pressures. Pedro Antunas is chief economist at Signal 49 research. He points out, there are also factors pulling in the opposite direction. It's more home ownership cost that have come down, rent has come down, finally those prices are coming down. Please remove all scanned items. That may not ease Canadians' pain at the supermarket, but it does mean not every economic indicator is in the red, like, say, an expensive tomato. Anise Hadari, CBC News, Calgary.

As Anise mentioned, that pain at the supermarket is connected to the pain at the pumps. Today, Iran and the U.S. are both indicating progress on the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, a global oil shipping route that's been effectively closed for months because of the war there. For a bigger picture on how that is all connected to inflation in Canada, let's bring in our senior business correspondent, Peter Armstrong. Peter, these inflation numbers look back at May.

Do we know what's happened since then? Yeah, I mean, you've probably noticed, right? Gasoline prices are down from where they were. At the peak in May, the average price across Canada was, I think, $1.85 a liter. We're well off those peaks now. And when the data shows up for next month, that headline rate of inflation is certainly going to look a lot better as a result. Is it fair to say that inflation has probably peaked?

I think the key word there's probably. There's still a lot of ways in which things can go sideways. Inflation can be pretty tricky. But if we stay on track where we're sort of headed now, both domestically and internationally with the Strait of Hormuz, the price of oil and thus the price of gasoline probably shouldn't be climbing further from where we are now. Okay. You mentioned domestic trends.

What are you watching for? Well, part of the kind of insidious nature of inflation is that it can be almost a and how it shapes the way we think about the economy, right? One of the biggest factors in inflation is expectations. If day after day and week after week you go and you spend more, you think inflation's going to get worse, not better, you change your behavior. You'll ask for higher wages.

You'll buy something now rather than wait. And that can shape inflation and actually heat inflation up. Prices are down from their peak, but aren't they higher now than they were before the war? Yeah, and I think that's the other key thing. So let's use oil prices. for this example. Brent Crude, the main international benchmark for oil, it peaked at $118 a barrel at the worst of the Strait of Hormuz crisis. It's fallen. It's fallen all the way to $77 a barrel today. But back in January, Brent Crude was trading at like $60 a barrel. So yes, there's been real progress. But if you're a business and you're eating all those extra costs, that's painful. Do we have any idea how long those businesses can manage before they have to raise prices?

I mean, that's the question here, right? And that's what we watch for now. Right now, inflation is largely contained to energy products and some very energy-intensive products like airfare and shipping and food. But if you're paying more for production and you're paying more for shipping, eventually you're going to pass those costs on. And once you do, inflation becomes a very different problem, a problem that's much harder and has much more painful solutions. The question a lot of people are asking, does this mean more interest rate hikes? I mean, not yet. It could if we get down the road and find that's happening, but we're not there yet, right?

Most measures show that containment of inflation in energy sectors is holding, but that's what we're watching for. Signs that inflation is spreading and becoming something the Bank of Canada can't ignore. Peter, thank you. You bet. That was senior business correspondent, Peter Armstrong. Coming up, Canada's nuclear renaissance. The Carney government says it will boost jobs and GDP. But critics argue it's simply a misguided power.

play. Also, downing and out. Kier Starmar steps aside as the UK's Prime Minister. We look at who may be waiting in the wings to replace him. And later, this story. Can songs, memes and protests translate into real power in India? The nasty cockroaches crawling into the daylight as a youth movement. The youth of the countries, you know, very frustrated, especially the students. The roaches bow, they won't be squashed. But can the month-old cockroach Janta party survive? India's not going to burst with the youth getting angry. I'm Susan Ormiston in Mumbai with that tale coming later on your world tonight.

Manitoba Chief Justice Glenn Joyle has been nominated to the Supreme Court of Canada. Joel has been in his current role since 2011, and his career on the bench spans more than a quarter century. He's widely considered an expert in criminal and constitutional law, and he's overseen several major indigenous cases. Joel was picked from a short list of candidates submitted to the Prime Minister. His nomination follows the retirement of Alberta's Sheila Martin. Her last day was May 30th.

The Carney government has unveiled a plan it says will power Canada's future. It is a strategy focused on nuclear that aims at building up large-scale reactors at home while selling the technology abroad. Critics suggest the plan may be too expensive and too ambitious. Olivia Stefanovic breaks it down for us. Our government is introducing a coordinated, targeted plan for the nuclear sector at home and abroad.

Energy and natural resources, Minister Tim Hodgson, declaring Canada is entering what he calls a nuclear renaissance. It's a renaissance because this is not the start of something completely new. In fact, Canada first entered the nuclear age back in the 1940s and remains the world's second largest uranium producer. But it's only released a national strategy for the power source now. For Canada and for our allies, energy security is national security. Citing global conflicts, the ongoing trade war with the U.S., and the goal to double the country's

electricity grid capacity by 2050, Hodgson released a plan to construct up to 10 new large-scale reactors and scale up the export of Canadian-owned reactor technology, primarily to markets in the Indo-Pacific and Europe. This is very kind of old-school thinking. Keith Stewart is a senior energy strategist with Greenpeace Canada. He says the strategy is misguided. And I think we really should be questioning the wisdom of exporting technology like nuclear, which is dangerous and requires an assumption of stable governments for centuries

in order to safely operate the technology and then deal with the waste. Prime Minister Mark Carney didn't attend the announcement, and his office says he didn't mention the nuclear plan during a state visit by Croatia's Prime Minister to Ottawa today. It's a great pleasure on behalf of all Canadians to welcome you here. Kearney used to work for Brookfield, a company heavily invested in nuclear, and documents shared at a technical briefing, had the words not to be shown to the Prime Minister, subject to conflict of interest screen, highlighted in bold letters.

An announcement will not build anything. Conservative leader Pierre Pauliev is skeptical of the federal government's nuclear ambitions. So the fact that liberals are again making big, grandiose promises is not an achievement. There's no new funding attached to the strategy. Hodgson says he will work with provinces and territories over the next year, to sort out financing from existing streams, including tax credits and the Canada Infrastructure Bank. Natural Resources Canada says the cost of turning the plan into a reality could be more than $100 billion. Olivia Estefanovich, CBC News, Ottawa.

The federal government is also looking at changing up its path for a high-speed rail line between Toronto and Quebec City. It includes adding a stop in Kingston, Ontario. The move would also add distance and time to the route, and likely more riders. Tom Perry looks at this new plan and the opposition that comes with it. A small but vocal protest against a multi-billion dollar project. Demonstrators in Kingston, Ontario, demanding the federal government put the brakes on plans for a high-speed rail link between Toronto and Quebec City. Protester Sharon Patton fears the line will slash through her farm and force her family out. They're not listening. They don't even want to hear what we're talking about. It's all for the money.

But Alto, the Crown Corporation tasked with building the high-speed line, says it has been listening. Through a 100-day public consultation process that included town hall meetings, roundtable discussions, online surveys and other forms of feedback. The goal is clear to build something with the community. minties together. Martin Imblow, CEO of Alto, released the results of those consultations today. He says, along with opposition to the project, there is support in places like Kingston. And so at the direction of the federal government,

Imblow says, Alto will now reconsider its original northern route from Montreal to Ottawa and then on to Toronto via Piedaburro and look at a longer circuit that veers south and makes a stop in Kingston. Yes, there is additional cost with it, but there's increased ridership to compensate with the extra costs. I'm not going to go into more detail, but the warm, fuzzy feeling is that economically it makes sense to have the station in Kingston. As for people along the proposed route, not feeling quite so warm and fuzzy about high-speed trains rocketing past their homes, Transport Minister Steve McKinnon says he gets it. I understand the fear. It's kind of the fear of the unknown.

But McKinnon says this project will ultimately benefit the country as a whole. Opposition leader Pierre Pauliev, however, has vowed to scrap plans for high-speed rail if his party wins the next election. Conservatives would use the Alto research money to take taxes off used cars so that you can save $2,000 on your next vehicle. If all goes, according to plan, work on the first section of high-speed rail between Ottawa and Montreal could begin in 2020. 2020 or 2030. When the rail corridor runs through private property, the federal government says the goal is to buy land from willing sellers, but expropriate if necessary.

To make sure this project, which has been talked about for decades, finally gets built. Tom Perry, CBC News, Ottawa. Cooler temperatures have helped cruise battling the Saw Creek wildfire near Lytton, BC. Officials have lifted evacuation orders on dozens of properties in the area. Hundreds are still under evacuation alert. The BC Wildfire Service says the next few days could bring warmer, drier weather and increased fire risk.

Most of Lytton was damaged or destroyed in another wildfire nearly five years ago. That fire moved quickly through the town as the region dealt with record high temperatures. Beaches packed with people trying to cool off in Barcelona. Much of Western Europe is baking under temperatures exceeding 40 degrees. Heat alerts have been posted from Ireland to Greece. More than a dozen deaths have been reported in France. The extreme weather comes amid a surging El Nino season. The phenomenon historically increases the strength of heat waves around the globe,

along with human-caused climate change. In April, the World Meteorological Organization showed climate change is warming Europe at more than twice the global rate. After less than two years as the UK's Prime Minister, Kier Starrmer is stepping aside. Pressure to resign has been building on the labor leader for months. But as Breyer Stewart explains, it was a likely leadership challenge

that left him with no choice but to leave. Even before Kier Starrmer walked out of 10 Downing Street to a crowd of supporters, and possibly an even larger crowd of journalists, it was clear just what was going to come next. The question my party is asking now is whether I am best placed. to lead us into the next general election.

I have heard the answer, and I accept that answer with good grace. And just like that, the revolving door of British politics turned once more. In less than a decade, Britain has had six different prime ministers. Starmer is the latest to resign. Before that, there was Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, Theresa May, and David Cameron. We did it! Starmar's term began nearly two years ago after a landslide labor victory.

Then came the political struggles. Among them, his decision to appoint Peter Mandelson, who had been a close friend of Jeffrey Epstein as UK ambassadors to the U.S. But Starmor's personal style was also a factor. I wasn't a fan of two of him. Bill Chappell drives one of London's iconic black cabs. I heard he's a nice man and perhaps he is, but as a politician, no, not. Not for May now.

Others like Kamala Lowe, we think not enough was being done under Starmer to make the country more livable and more affordable. We hope that the candidate that are going to take his place might have enough power to drive what's needed for the country to move forward. And it's almost certain just who will be next in line to lead the Labour Party. Andy Burnham, the former mayor of Manchester, won a crucial by-election last week and arrived in London today to be sworn in as an MP. He had previously served as a cabinet minister in the Gordon Brown government nearly 20 years ago.

I think what I'll be watching for is whether Andy Burnham is simply a salesman for the same policies or whether Andy Burham is a professor of politics at Queen Mary University in London. I think there is an extent to which people are getting quite tired of all the churn or the turnover. and I think there is some hope that they will give Andy Burnham a fair chance. Because there appears to be no challenger, Burnham could be moving into 10 Downing Street next month. But there's no guarantee how long he will be there. In the polls, the Labour Party is behind the right-wing Reform Party. And its leader Nigel Farage is calling for a general election once the new prime minister takes office. Breyer-Stewart, CBC News, London.

Three students are dead after a shooting in a high school in central Philippines. Investigators say they believe two suspects in the case are also students. Both are in custody. They say the shooting appears to have been motivated by a grudge over bullying. Mass shootings are considered rare in the country, which has strict gun control measures. Young people are struggling to build a future in India. They make up a third of the nation's working-age population, yet many can't find a job. Now a remark by the country's chief justice has sparked a political movement,

and it's becoming a growing headache for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The CBC's Susan Ormiston has more from Mumbai. Started as a satirical poke at the government. The thing is that the youth of this country is very frustrated, especially the students. India's Chief Justice referred to some young unemployed as cockroaches. Have you seen there are youngsters, Like cockroaches, they don't get any employment. They don't have any place in profession.

The Justice later said he was misunderstood, but the label stuck. I think the comments reflects the mindset and the narrative of the ruling party, which has always demean, insulted and cracked down on people who have tried to speak up. Abhijit Dipke, a grad student, came up with a cockroach meme on X, and it went viral, 20 million followers. Then the meme turned into protests. This weekend seizing on an education scandal in India, aspiring medical students forced to rewrite national exams

when earlier test questions were leaked. Have you heard about the cockroach party? Yes. Yeah. So good. We met 19-year-old Shervina Sanjay Nevitay outside a test center. Why? Well, the committee is supporting Zenzis.

Because there is nobody who feel our feelings. Indian authorities first blocked the cockroach party on X, calling it a national security threat. Dipkei just created a new account. But he has been threatened, slapped and punched at a recent rally, and his family home has police protection. We had a great opportunity to turn this young population into a workforce, but the government has failed to do so, because it has misplaced priorities. 30% of Indian youth is unemployed,

and in the last five years, job created, hasn't kept pace. The economy can't run fast enough. That is the core of the problem. We've got a fantastic opportunity in the youth. We are ignoring both. Still, economist Mahesh Vias says his polling shows that the cockroaches

aren't tracking nationally. India's not going to burst with the youth getting angry and they're not going to burn down buses. I've seen India for a long time. A lot more stress in earlier times. But the roachers, are showing they won't be easily squashed. At least with these protests, something will go into the heads of the people who are in power.

You know, the strength of youth in a country as populace as India, I think it only makes sense of the youth if it forms into a political party. The question, can they evolve into a real political party? Susan Ormiston, CBC News, Mumbai. And finally tonight. Whitney Houston, Janice Joplin and Alicia Keys, just some of the artists who had their careers launched and relaunched by Clive Davis. The music starmaker has died at the age of 94. He also signed Canadian Sarah McLaughlin when she was just 20.

Davis started as a lawyer for Columbia Records in 1960, rising to become president of the company seven years later. He had a falling out with Colombia but came back with his own label, Arista Records to become one of the industry's most dominant players. Davis spoke to the CBC in 1983 about the lasting power of music. With all the hoopla that's gone on in the last year that video games would replace music and computers would replace music and records were on their way out or tapes, it's turned out to be total hogwash. Music is unique, music is special. Music publicist Eric Alper says Davis was known to have the greatest ears in the music business and used them

launched countless artists to fame. When you got signed by Clive Davis or signed to Aresda Records or Jay Records, it actually made people stand up and take notice because Clive actually had a hand, not just in the signing process, but in the producing and the executive producing and overseeing everything from the music to the look to the feel. Davis was also known for his ability to revive the careers of veterans like Rod Stewart, Carlos Santana, and Aretha Franklin. His publicist says he died in his Manhattan apartment.

Davis' family said in a statement, he leaves an indelible mark on culture that will endure for generations. Thank you for being with us. This has been your world tonight for Monday, June 22nd. I'm Helen Mann. Good night. For more CBC podcasts, go to CBC.ca.com.