Your World Tonight - Ottawa and B.C. reach a deal, Manitoba flooding, Kyiv attack, and more

Episode Date: July 2, 2026

The federal government signs a multibillion dollar agreement with B.C.’s government. It includes federal support for resource projects while maintaining a tanker ban along the province’s north coast.Also: Heavy rain floods communities across Manitoba. Several areas have already declared states of emergency and the provincial government is asking for help.And: Russia hits Ukraine’s capital with one of its biggest drone and missile strikes since launching its war on the country. Two dozen people died. Many more lost their homes.Plus: Ontario and Quebec continue to simmer under sky-high temperatures, a look at Gaza nine months after the ceasefire, a ship captain whose vessel was stuck in the Strait of Hormuz for months speaks to the CBC, and more.

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This is a CBC podcast. Together, we have secured a landmark, generational, multi-billion dollar agreement with the federal government that sets BC on a trajectory, a generational path to prosperity. BC's premier on the federal cash that is to flow to his province, and more yet, with any future pipeline pumping oil from Alberta. That future may be closer than before with an announcement on the project, expected in a matter of hours.

This is Your World Tonight. It's Thursday, July 2nd, just before 6 p.m. Eastern. I'm Tanya Fletcher in Vancouver, also on the podcast. There was water in places we haven't seen water in probably 50 years. I'll be ready to go, sunscreen on,

flags are on, everything's on, we're okay. Parts of Manitoba, underwater, and a wide swath of central and eastern Canada facing serious heat. The extreme weather conditions are breaking all the wrong. kinds of records. We begin in BC and the pipeline the Premier doesn't want may become a reality and could mean

more money for the province. David E.B. has railed against a new pipeline running from Alberta to the BC coast, but today a deal with Ottawa for massive federal investment in his province includes that as a possibility. As our Caroline Bargut explains, the deal also promises safeguards for BC's environment and First Nations. This is a historic day. Standing alongside BC Premier David Eby, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced billions of dollars in federal money that will flow to British Columbia.

Premier Eby and I are announcing a landmark Canada, British Columbia, Cooperative Prosperity Agreement. There's money to upgrade the port of Vancouver, which moves billions of dollars a day in goods around the world. Funding for the North Coast transmission line to expand clean electricity to the region. money for copper mine expansion and rebuilding the Massey Tunnel, a key logistical pathway. This agreement is comprehensive, it's ambitious, and it will help transform the entire Canadian economy. There's also millions in environmental protections, including money to preserve BC's whale population and habitat,

the creation of a new conservation area the size of Greece, affordable childcare, and 100,000 more jobs in trade. All this, seemingly to soften the blow of a new Alberta pipeline, that could run through the province. We have anxiety about the impact of any new pipeline project period on British Columbia's coast, which is why in this agreement there are very clear safeguards in place around spill protection around British Columbia's participation. For months, Eby has been saying there will be no new pipeline running through British Columbia.

He now says that decision is in Ottawa's hands, but praises the consideration that's been taken for BC's interest. And so the decision to sit down with us, to hear British Columbia's concerns, and to ensure that as best as possible, we found a path forward on British Columbia's interests while respecting our North Coast was, in my opinion, a sign of leadership and a commitment to collaborative federalism to Canada that works. Still, Eby is adamant that pipeline will not run through the north, stressing the government will keep the tanker ban in place. Pipelines are federal jurisdiction. That's why this agreement matters. It ensures that the northern tanker ban stays in place. And it ensures that if a pipeline goes ahead,

that British Columbians are fairly compensated for the environmental risks we would take on any new pipeline project. Coastal First Nations are also pleased. Marilyn Slet is the chief of the Helsic Nation and president of Coastal First Nations. This has not been about blocking Alberta's access to oil markets. This is, and it always has been, about keeping this special place free from oil.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been pushing for pipeline to BC's north for easier access to Asian markets, the proposed route likely to run through the south instead. Caroline Bargout, CBC News, Vancouver. In the province next door, we are still waiting for new details on Alberta's West Coast Pipeline proposal. Premier Daniel Smith is expected to speak about that alongside Prime Minister. Mark Carney later this evening in Calgary. But for now, let's bring in reporter Stephanie Kramm, who's in our Edmonton Bureau for more and what we can expect. So Stephanie, what do we know so far? As outlined in the Memorandum of Understanding the province signed with Ottawa, Alberta was supposed to submit their proposal to the major projects office by July 1st.

Earlier this week, Premier Daniel Smith's press secretary confirmed to CBC that the announcement would be pushed back a day because of the Canada Day holiday. Originally, Prime Minister Mark Carney was expected to be in Edmonton for a Canada Day speech, but because of the weather in Ottawa, his flight was delayed and the trip was later cancelled. Last night, we were told the pipeline announcement would happen sometime this afternoon. And then this morning, it was delayed until this evening. It is unclear if the delay was because the province was waiting for the Prime Minister. So do we have any idea of what's in the proposal? We don't know for sure what is in the proposal.

And honestly, we are left with more questions. there has been no sign that a private company has been lined up to back the project yet, and originally in the MOU, the province had to find a proponent in order for the project to go forward. Earlier this month, CBC received documents that outlined three possible routes for the pipeline that would go from Alberta to ports in northern B.C. But now that we know that the northern B.C. tanker ban will remain in effect, it's likely the terminus will be somewhere outside of that region. During this morning's BC press conference,

the Prime Minister did mention additional money going towards the Roberts Bank terminal in Delta BC to expand shipping capacity by 50%. That alone will unlock $100 billion in new trade capacity, adding approximately $3 billion to Canada's economy every single year. Again, it's too early to tell, but maybe that's an indication of the proposed route that we will be hearing about tonight. Now, another federal leader is in Alberta today. Conservatives Pierre Pollyev spoke in Camrose. What did he have to say about today's announcement? Yes, he spoke in his writing and congratulated Premier Daniel Smith for the pipeline proposals,

stating that she has been up against a lot and that she continues to fight for Alberta. Polyev says that Carney was originally against oil and gas projects as the UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance. So he was a bit surprised to hear about today's announcement. Polyev says the conservatives have their own solution to get major projects up and running. Get the government out of the way and allow shipping of oil off the northwest coast of BC. Get the government out of the way and permit a pipeline immediately upon receiving the path and the proposal from Premier Danielle Smith. Of course, we'll have to see how Smith characterizes her government's relationship with Ottawa on this file.

when she speaks alongside Carney tonight in Calgary. All right. Thank you so much for this, Stephanie. No problem. The CBC Stephanie Cramm in Edmonton. Coming right up, Manitoba asks for military help as flooding inundates several communities, some under mandatory evacuation order again. Plus, an oil tanker captain from India gives us a firsthand account of navigating the Strait of Hormuz in the middle of the war.

And later, we'll have this story. I'm Chris Brown. After 1,000 days of war, and nine months after Hamas and Israel agreed to a hard-fought ceasefire, the term has become a cruel irony for the two million Palestinians trapped in Gaza. It's hard to say that the ceasefire deal hasn't any way brought peace. On the ground, the situation has become what analysts and aid workers say is a permanent state of humanitarian purgatory. I'll have that story later on your world tonight. Heavy rain is flooding a number of communities across Manitoba, triggering states of emergency. Roads and bridges are washed out, cutting off access to critical services.

And as Ian Fraze reports, the provincial government is now asking for help. That was the biggest fear is if we were going to wait any longer, we would be trapped in the farm yard. Johnny and Tony scrambled to get his handful of cows, pigs and goats into the barn. He thought they'd be safe from the torrential rain soaking west central Manitoba. They weren't. They felt water on their hooves already. I think they knew that they had to go. This week, as much as 200 millimeters of rain, fell in just two days,

washing away gravel roads and damaging many others across the parkland region. Premier Wob Canoe toured the damage by air Thursday. Some 15,000 people live in the river valley. Folks in the parkland has seen flooding before, but not like this. to this extent, not to this scale, not hitting this many areas of the region at the same time. It wasn't just livestock scrambling to higher ground. In the city of Dauphin, dozens of hospital patients were evacuated. Kristen Pellashok works there. Staff up here, their houses are underwater as well. Some of them have a lot of basement flooding, but they showed up each and every day.

Health care workers rushed to set up a temporary emergency room at a clinic. Steve Gellenchuk says it could be a while till the hospital is ready. There's a lot of specialized equipment that's been probably destroyed. Northwest of Doffin around 200 people stuck in a provincial park. Rushing water cut off every road out. Courtney Carmichael was told she could be stranded for another week. People around us have tried with trucks and side by sides to access back roads and like almost everybody we've spoken to have had to turn around.

Farther north, Andrew Jones tried four different. Graver roads near Swan River to reach his six-year-old son staying with his grandfather. He gets to watch a lot of net fix with grandpa, so he's in pretty good shape and doesn't seem too worried. While in Swan River, around 150 homes were evacuated Wednesday. It's the second major flood to hit the region in less than a month. Paul Kovac studies extreme weather events. This is not a river that's got a little bit high in catching a few people at the edge of the river. This is water that is going in a lot of places where it's not supposed to be. It's been a punishing month of extreme weather in Manitoba.

Besides the parkland flooding, tornadoes have touched down, and the city of Brandon was drenched just days ago. The warm summers can add up to things like extreme rainfall, can add up to strong winds. The Premier has asked the federal government for military help. Ian Frays, CBC News, Winnipeg. Extreme weather extends further east to, Canadians are dealing with oppressive heat across much of Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes. The intense system is sparking heat warnings in some regions and intense summer storms in others,

leaving thousands without power. Alexander Silberman has more from Montreal. At a splash pad in downtown Montreal, families are trying to keep cool under the scorching sun and heat. Temperatures in the city are continuing to soar into the low 30s, with humidity, making it feel like the low 40s. It's a little bit unbearable. Tracy Seng, taking a lunch break in the shade, says she's trying her best to stay cool,

drinking lots of water, but also enjoying the warm weather. I was waiting for, like, the heat since this long winter, so I'm very happy. A persistent heat wave is continuing to grip large parts of Quebec and Ontario. Environment Canada warns the dangerous conditions will linger over the next few days. We are closer to 33, 34 today, and that's way above normal. Simon Lago is a meteorologist with the weather agency. He says a slow-moving air mass from the U.S. is causing extreme temperatures to stick around. Worst is the humidity is way over normal as well.

So that's hard for the body to regulate temperature. So that's why we feel so oppressed by the weather today. In Ottawa, the heat and humidity helped generate a torrential. Central Canada Day thunderstorm. Heavy rains, closed roads and gushed into homes. Sandy Buckelum's basement was one of nearly 2,000 in the city to get flooded. I also had a friend come over with a shop vac. It was just awful. Mayor Mark Sutcliffe says the storm and widespread damage was historic, with more than 100 millimeters of rain. We believe this was one of the worst flooding events in our city in the last 25 years.

In Toronto, the muggy temperatures come as thousands gather outside for the World Cup. The city is canceling an outdoor watch party for a knockout match between Portugal and Croatia. Alex Mieselski was forced to make alternative plans. I'm going to watch it inside in the air-conditioned at the mall. But fan Dylan DeMellos says the blazing heat won't stop him from watching the match at Toronto Stadium. Oh, anything for Portugal. I'll die in the heat for Portugal. No worries. Toronto is extending some outdoor pool and library hours in opening a 24-hour cooling space for people experiencing homelessness.

The blast of heat is expected to continue to hangover Ontario and southern Quebec into the weekend. With a return to cooler temperatures expected early next week. Alexander Silberman, CBC News, Montreal. That's the sound of a plane dousing flames rising from a field in southern France. Several wildfires have broken out there and are growing rapidly. Much of Western Europe baked under record temperatures last week. And the World Meteorological Organization says that has elevated the wildfire risk. More than 2,000 people died in France and Spain in that recent heat wave.

And the weekend forecast again calls for temperatures topping 40 degrees Celsius. A former U.S. Olympian has been charged for allegedly vandalizing the reflecting pool in Washington, D.C. David Hearn says he stopped to touch the lining of the pool during a bike ride last month. He says he backed off when a worker told him to stop. Now a grand jury has indicted the 67-year-old former canoe racer for destruction of property. The pool was recently renovated, but has been plagued with problems. It's gone far over budget.

Chunks of surface treatment have come unglued and algae blooms have turned the water green. Overseas, Russia hit Ukraine's capital overnight with one of its biggest volleys of drones and missiles since the start of the war. More than 100 buildings were badly damaged in Kiev. Some collapsed. Most were private residences. Two dozen died. The intense attack, though, was not unexpected. Ukraine has managed to hit Russia's oil industry hard enough to create new headaches for the Kremlin. The CBC's Breyer Stewart has the latest. The rescue crew rushes into a smoke-filled corridor in an apartment block in Kiev. Stretcher after stretcher is taken out, carrying the wounded and the dead. More than 100 buildings were damaged in what the mayor described as a massive attack overnight.

One missile slammed into a nine-story apartment building, collapsing several floors. The force of the explosion shook all of the area around it, destroying glass and blowing out windows. you can see exactly like it was the moment of a global explosion. My mom was in this bedroom when everything happened. Marina Nikolcheva is helping her mother Natalia sweep up all the debris. Her mother wasn't injured, but will need to find somewhere else to stay for now. It's terrible for all. It must be enough for everybody.

Officials say more than 50,000 people in the capital sought shelter in metro stations overnight, heating a warning from Ukraine's president ahead of time that there would likely be a devastating attack. Volodymyr Zelensky cut short a trip to Ireland to return home where he pleaded again for the U.S. to send more air defense systems. Of course, we're asking President Trump, his team, he asks, you see what does it mean when the packages come to Ukraine slowly? Moscow claimed it only hit military targets. no mention of the dozens of civilian victims or the charred vehicles in residential parking lots. Dmitri Peskov, the Kremlin spokesperson, vowed that Moscow will intensify the pressure on Ukraine,

but the Russian government is also under strain. Ukraine has been attacking its oil refineries for weeks leading to a widespread gasoline shortage. Russia, which is one of the world's largest oil exporters, is now to. trying to import, refined fuel to help ease public frustration. In Kiev, many residents like Dmitro Zinchuk believed that the attack overnight was about retribution. We're doing the right thing and we have to continue our pressure. He wants Ukraine to keep pushing.

It means that we are hitting the weak spot and we have to do what we're doing right now. Even though it's Ukraine that keeps suffering under the stress of a relentless war. Breyer Stewart, CBC News, London. A rare moment of joy and relief amid the earthquake devastation in Venezuela. Search and rescue crews from El Salvador and Chile pulled a man trapped in the ruins of a mall. The man was working as a security guard when the quake struck over a week ago. The rescue took 70 hours. Cruz had sent down a tube to provide water and liquid nutrition.

The death toll from those back-to-back quake. has risen above 2,000. Tens of thousands of people are still missing. It has been exactly 1,000 days since Israel declared war on Hamas for the mass attack it launched from Gaza. The war killed tens of thousands of Gazans. Nine months after a ceasefire agreement, the bombing has eased, but the misery has not. As Chris Brown tells us, with no security and very little shelter or health care, people there are struggling together. the basic necessities. When Hayad Al-Makwa hangs her family's laundry out to dry in Gaza, she has to dodge live gunfire.

When we hang up our clothes, the bullets fly right through them, she said. Palestinians hoped the ceasefire would permanently halt the fighting and end the humanitarian crisis. Instead, analyst Amjad Iraqi with the crisis group says Gaza remains a disastrous landscape of fabric tense and broken promises. It's hard to say that the ceasefire deal has in any way brought peace. And so you're finding that Palestinians and the ground are still very much caught in this limbo or this humanitarian purgatory.

Gaza's infrastructure has totally collapsed. 70% of households rely on humanitarian aid to get by. And truck deliveries of water provide most of what people can drink or wash with. In a statement to CBC News, Kogat, the Israeli agency that controls, what enters Gaza pushed back. It says bias claims are creating a false impression of a crisis to discredit Israel. Israeli bombardments have lessened but not stopped. More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed since the ceasefire began. UNICEF says that includes more than 260 children. Four Israeli soldiers have been killed over the same period. Among the biggest roadblocks is the issue of

disarming Hamas. Israel wants the militants to give up all of their weapons, but a Hamas spokesman told CBC News, there must also be a path to end the Israeli occupation. There are some who try to cherry pick elements of the peace plan, said Hazam Qasam. We want the full withdrawal of the occupation to the designated areas we agreed on. But Israel has been doing the opposite, and it now controls more than 60% of Gaza. The board of peace, we call it. The Board of Peace created by U.S. President Donald Trump to manage Gaza's post-war transition has not intervened. Analyst Zaha' Hassan of the Carnegie Foundation believes the board's true purpose is to clear the land entirely. The plan is to make it uninhabitable

for Palestinians and to induce Palestinian flight. In a statement, the Israeli armed forces said it's operating in accordance with international law. Inside the strip, The legal arguments matter little. The bombs may be fewer, but the battle for basic survival has become the permanent landscape. Chris Brown, CBC News, London. Iran is warning ships in the Strait of Hormuz to use Tehran-approved routes or else face a forceful response.

That ultimatum threatens to derail progress made during mediation talks in Doha this week. Right now, hundreds of ships are stranded. Only a small number are getting through. Senior correspondent Susan Ormiston caught up with one Indian oil tanker captain who was stuck in the Gulf for months. Hello, hi. This is Captain Raman Kapoor. I'm from India. Captain Kapoor with an all-Indian crew was stuck for two and a half months on an oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. My crew was frightening.

Terrified with missiles and explosions around them. So we could feel that trauma on ship. We could feel the shock. We could heal. of the sound, explosion sound. It was horrible. At least 400 ships and 8,000 seafarers are still stuck there, unable to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. I joined my ship from Port Umpkasa. It was in Iraq.

And never, in 28 years at sea, did Kapoor ever expect a night like one back in March. When Iranian sea drone struck a tanker, the safe sea Vishnu, about a kilometer away, igniting a huge ball of fire. It was a big explosion. That was the scariest night. It happened nighttime. The entire crew was damn scared.

An Indian engineer on the Vishnu was killed in the attack. The entire crew was requesting for their relief. They want to go home because our families were so scared. But we couldn't get out of that place. At least 14 international seafarers have died in this war and half of them from India. In June, a U.S. attack on the M.T. Cetebello direct into the engine room killed three.

Kapoor knows one of the families. This guy was so young, he died. And he was the only son. Imagine. We are pawns. They are treating us like pawns. The world talks about us only when they see a dad body. The International Maritime Organization launched an evacuation to

open a passage. My first priority is the evacuation of the seafarers. The next priority which is in line with the MOU is, of course, the demining of the Strait of Hormuz. But Secretary General, Arsino Dominguez, paused the plan when the U.S. struck another tanker and Iran retaliated. So it is not going to be easy task to evacuate all the ships from the region. Kapoor was finally relieved by another captain, flying home to reunite with his worried wife Syrika. Every time there is a fear in my heart. If he was asked to go back into the Gulf,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, not at all. I will never allow him to go there. I think he can work safely, but not inside the wars or... Not something they ever imagined. Susan Ormiston, CBC News, Kasali, India. I'll finally imagine this, a library employee walks into a washroom horrified to find graffiti

on the mirror written in red lipstick, but even more horrified to find it riddled with spelling and grammatical errors. So she fixes it, adds an apostrophe and an E to the yore. Now it makes sense, saying, Beware, you're in danger, leave now. It's all part of the super viral video posted to social media by the Cape Breton Regional Library. It's pulled in millions of views from all over the world.

Those behind it say it's about more than just the likes. I think social media has definitely helped us reach those younger demographics. We are meeting people where they are, including Gen Z. That's library services technician Nicole Rajikovsky. She says posts like that one ultimately encourage more people to sign up. The videos, by the way, all include library staff, including this one with Regiakowski herself, in which she approaches a man sitting alone at a table.

Hi, are you with anyone? No. Perfect. With that, she picks up an empty chair and walks away. The library's digital content creator Emily Ramsey says the posts are entertaining, yes, but also meant to be informative. I talk to a lot of people who tell me, oh, I didn't realize that the library did this or had this resource,

or there are lots of people on staff who will be recognized out in public and be like, hey, you're the library guy. And it's really rewarding because you know that it's reaching people. The viral hits have even been reposted by celebrities, including American singer Lizzo. But the main target audience is young people who could benefit from all the library has to offer. I think sometimes, like, teens are kind of the hardest group to hit.

So I think doing stuff that is going to show up in young people's feeds where they're spending a lot of time, it definitely helps make them aware of what we're doing. and bring them in. This has been your world tonight for Thursday, July 2nd. Thanks for being with us. I'm Tanya Fletcher. Good night.

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