Your World Tonight - Trump increases global tariff, Far-right protests in Lyon, Canada's Olympic standings, and more

Episode Date: February 21, 2026

The U.S. President says he intends to ratchet up tariffs, again. Shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against many of his sweeping tariffs, Trump announced a plan to impose a temporary 10 percent tax on imports from around the world. And then today, Trump took to social media to say he's bumping that up to 15 percent.Also: The city of Lyon has become a flashpoint in France's culture wars. Thousands hit the streets of that city today to protest the killing of Quentin Deranque. The 23 year old -- who was active in far-right, ultranationalist circles -- was beaten to death in a brawl with an alleged group of far-left activists. You'll hear how Deranque's killing is dividing French society. And: Canada's athletes at the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics have had their fair share of triumphs and disappointments. Our team in Milan tells us all about them - and what to expect from Sunday's gold medal Men's hockey game.Plus: U.S. deploys troops to Nigeria, Saskatchewan's biggest dog sled race, and more.

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This is a CBC podcast. The president has at his disposal a great many other instruments to impose tariffs. Some of them are time limited. Some of them require investigations. U.S. President Donald Trump is not giving up on his trade agenda. A day after the Supreme Court struck down many of his taxes on imports, Trump says he's raising his new global tariff to 15%. You'll hear what happens next and what that means for Canada.

This is Your World Tonight. I'm Kate McGilvery. Also on the podcast, hard-right protesters rally in Lyon following the killing of one of their own. He was beaten to death last week by a group of alleged far-left activists in a case that's dividing France. And we really just wanted to keep playing. And we said in the change room after we started, we're like, we're going to keep playing until they tell us to leave. And then we got to come home with a medal. And we're pretty proud of that. Canada's two curling teams leaving Italy with two Olympic medals.

The men are walking away with gold, the women bronze, as Canada prepares for the final day of Olympic competition and a final fight for the Canadian men's hockey team. The U.S. President says he intends to ratchet up his latest global tariff. Shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against many of his sweeping levies, Donald Trump announced a plan to impose a temporary 10% tax on imports from around the world. Then today, Trump took to social media to say he's bumping that up to. 15 percent. Philip Leashanek tells us more. And in the end, I think we'll take it more money than we've taken in before. Following the Supreme Court's ruling, U.S. President Donald Trump immediately pivoted to another section of trade law and temporarily imposed a 10% global tariff,

which he increased to 15% early Saturday, announced as usual on social media. Rambad Beboudi is an Ottawa-based trade lawyer who advised on the North American Free Trade Agreement. the president has at his disposal a great many other instruments to impose tariffs. Some of them are time limited. Some of them require investigations. This new tool must be renewed by Congress after 150 days, curtailing Trump's power to use tariffs as a blunt instrument. The new tariff also doesn't apply to well over 90% of Canadian exports covered under the Canada-US-Mexico trade deal, which will be renegotiated this year. Dominic Leblanc as Minister of Canada-U-S. trade.

If they gave that exemption to Canada and Mexico, it's because it's in the American economic interest to do that. They don't do it because they want to be nice to us. Along with criticizing some members of the Supreme Court who ruled against his use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to levy tariffs, Trump also slammed the companies that mounted the legal challenge. And I don't like them. I think they're real slime balls.

Rick Woldenberg is CEO of Illinois-based learning resources. We make educational products for schools and homes, and I don't think a lot of people think we're sleeves bags. Meanwhile, he'd like those illegally charged tariffs returned. They're very good at taking the money. I think they should just reverse the gears and give it back. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson expects legal battles over those refunds to drag on. This could take years to litigate and to get to the payouts. Newzac Nekaktar is Trump's former Assistant Secretary of Commerce.

She says U.S. companies will feel the impact of Trump's new and old tariffs. It's going to be a period of time for importers where they're going to be really out of pocket in two respects. The refunds that they're entitled to that they're still waiting to get plus payment of additional tariffs. It will all eventually make its way to consumers in some way, which economists say could weigh on growth and lead to higher prices, as affordability becomes a likely major issue in the U.S. midterm elections this fall. Philip Lichanoke, CBC News, Toronto. The company behind ChatGPT says it banned an account belonging to the Tumblr Ridge shooter months before the deadly attack.

OpenAI says the account was flagged last June for what it calls the furtherance of violent activities. It said those activities didn't meet the high threshold required to notify police, and the company only approached the RCMPP after. after the shooting happened. Premier David Eby called the reports from Open AI profoundly disturbing and says police are working to preserve any potential digital evidence in this case. Another round of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine has ended without a substantial breakthrough, but there is a sliver of headway. The two sides met in Geneva, Switzerland, earlier this week, along with the United States. The U.S. is now promising to monitor the future ceasefire if a deal is made.

William Denslo has more. Both the Russian and Ukrainian delegations describe the latest round of peace talks as difficult. But Ukraine's president said progress was made on some humanitarian and military issues. After receiving a briefing from negotiators, Zelensky said that all sides agreed that the US would oversee a ceasefire, should one come into effect, describing it as a very important result.

But little progress has been made on the political front. Zelenskyi says that on the sensitive issue of eastern Ukraine, no constructive solutions been found, as Moscow continues to call for Ukraine's complete withdrawal from the Dombas region. US President Donald Trump has reportedly set a June deadline for the two sides to reach a deal. Ukraine's leaders accused Moscow of dragging out peace talks, a charge the Kremlin denies. William Denslow reporting for CBC News, Kiev. The city of Lyon has become a flashpoint in France's culture wars. Thousands hit the streets of that city today to protest the killing of Quentin Teranc.

The 23-year-old, who was active in far-right ultra-nationalist circles, was beaten to death in a brawl with an alleged group of far-left activists. Freelance reporter Kyle Brown now on how that killing is dividing French society. hunting justice for Quanta, protesters marched through Lyon in memory of Quanta D'erunc, ending their rally in the area where the 23-year-old far-right activist was brutally beaten in a street brawl. It shocked me, this woman says, he could have been my little brother. I'm here in support of Conta, who was killed by the far left, this protester says, adding this country is fed up with the violence.

Among the suspects is at least one assistant to Rafael Arnaud, an MP for the left-wing France Unbowed Party. He created the anti-fascist group, which was allegedly involved in last week's deadly brawl. The group Young Guard was launched in 2018 in response to repeated attacks by the far right on immigrants and progressive activists in Lyon. I don't want my city to be the capital of the far right,

says Lyon's mayor, Gregory Doucet. He adds that any exploitation of Kantan Durang's killing would be obscene. And yet, that's precisely what happened this week. The police investigation had hardly begun when politicians started accusing France unbowed of complicity. National rally press. President, Jordan Bardella, says the left and far-left have crossed a line and calls for France-on-bowed to be ejected from the National Assembly and disqualified from participating in the upcoming elections. France-on-Bowed MP Matilde Panot told the National Assembly that the politicization of this tragedy must stop, calling the smearing tactics disgraceful.

No member of their party was involved in this violence. she said, adding that one would have to be ignorant of French history to accept the victimization of the far right and pretend that the violence is coming from the left. Political violence in France has increased in recent years, and studies indicate that it's the far right that's responsible for the vast majority of it. Kyle Brown for CBC News in Paris. Still ahead, a 17-year-old in Saskatchewan found her limit and pushed past it as she battled through fatigue, cold, and wind in Saskatchewan's biggest dog sled race.

That's coming up on your world tonight. In Tehran, video posted online today appears to show protesters at a university. A crowd of protesters chanted, long-lived the king, as they marked the 40th day of morning for those killed in recent protests. The Reuters News Agency verified the location that's shown, but was not able to verify the date that it was filmed. The CBC has not independently verified this video. There are also reports of protests at other universities in Iran today. Last month, thousands were killed by the Iranian regime as it crushed widespread anti-government demonstrations. The United States has deployed about 100 troops to Nigeria on what Washington calls a training and advisory mission. The deployment

follows U.S. airstrikes inside Nigeria last December and accusations by President Donald Trump that the country isn't doing enough to protect its Christian population. Freelance reporter Kunle Babs has more from Abuja. We just want to live in peace, says Alima Abwaka, who lives in Northistan-Bronu state, the epicenter of years-long insurgency. Fighting between Nigeria and harm groups have displayed nearly 3.5 million people and killed thousands, according to the United Nations.

This month alone, attacks in North Central Quara state, left at least 162 people dead and dozens abducted. Abaka says she hopes the arrival of U.S. troops working with Nigerian forces could finally make people feel safe again. The deployment of U.S. troops comes months after U.S. President Donald Trump accused Nigerian's government of failing to protect Christians. On Christmas Day, the U.S. carried out airstrikes inside Nigeria against ISIS militants. The newly deployed 100 personnel joined a smaller U.S. team already in the country, confirmed last month by the head of U.S. Africa Command.

The Nigerian military says it requested U.S. support for training, technical assistance and intelligence sharing. In modern warfare, particularly on insurgency, you need more sophistication. And you know, the United States have been involved in a lot of missions across the world. So their troops have that kind of sophistication. Security analyst Sally Udanteau-Makmoud says the real benefit will be knowledge transfer rather than combat support. So these further expanded and capacitated training skills, particularly on technology and intelligence guardians, we go a very long.

But not everyone support the deployment. Allowing foreign troops into Nigeria risk weakening our sovereignty. Abuja-based lawyer, Fulushu Adidiji, says foreign deployments may not offer a lasting solution. Past foreign military interventions rarely deliver lasting stability. Nigeria should threaten his own security institution instead. For many in Nigeria, the arrival of U.S. troops brings hope of peace after years of violence. But with millions still displaced and attacks continuing, the question is how soon that hope can become reality.

Koonlebabs for CBC News, Abuja, Nigeria. There's a stench coming from Africa's largest. Lake. Uganda's government says Lake Victoria is experiencing a serious algae bloom fueled by pollution and hot weather. As freelance reporter, Michael Balike tells us it's threatening the food, drinking water, and livelihoods of millions of people across East Africa. Lake Victoria supports more than 40 million people in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. It provides drinking water, fish, transport routes and electricity. But experts warn the lake is under growing pressure from pollution.

Dr Ronald Semialo, a research at Macquarie University, says years of waste flowing into the lake are now taking their toll. The organic pollution, first and foremost, which is really in alarming, problematic amounts that need to be dealt with from wastewater, from agriculture runoff, from what we call dry fallout, from the air, all this dust falling.

and so on, which by they also carry microplastics. So eventually you get to a point whereby the environmental services of the lake are no longer available to us like we know them. Much of the pollution comes from untreated wastewater in fast-growing lakeside cities and fertilizers washed in from nearby farms. These nutrients feed a severe algae bloom, spreading across parts of the lake turning the water green. And when the algae die, they decompose using up oxygen,

the water and releasing gases like ammonia and hydrogen sulphide, creating a foul. Semayalo says the process can be deadly for the lake's fish. Mass deaths of fish in Lake Victoria have for a very long time been attributed to absence of sufficient amounts of oxygen because of all this high bacterial activity. Or it could be a scenario of those algae at times produce toxins. The problem has been worsened by recent hot and dry weather, which speeds up both the growth and decay of algae. Officials say the worst hit areas include Inamachison Bay near Kampala and parts of Entebe, where shallow water allows pollution to build up.

Alfred Okoto Kidi, the permanent secretary, and the Minister of Water and Environment says wetlands are being restored and control on wastewater tightened. We want to make sure that some of the sediments that have settled for long are dredged, and we also want to ensure that whatever activity happens that produces wastewater, that goes into the bay meets the standards. But the government admits more still needs to be done. Solid waste management remains weak, and enforcing environmental rules is a challenge as cities continue to grow.

Environmental groups warn that without stronger action, algae blooms could become more frequent and more dangerous. For now, officials say water quality is being closely monitored because Lake Victoria is a lifeline for East Africa. And what's happening here isn't just Uganda's problem. That's freelance reporter Michael Balakay in Uganda. NASA's historic mission to the moon has suffered another setback. Officials say they've detected problems with the flow of helium on the

Artemis 2 rocket. That means the launch might have to be delayed again, just a day after NASA had it set for March 6th. Engineers are working to fix this problem on the launch pad, but NASA says it's preparing to move the rocket back to the hangar at the Kennedy Space Center if it has to. It was a disappointing day in Lavinio, Italy, with none of the four Canadians advancing to the semifinals in the men's ski cross competition at the Olympics. Ski-cross has athletes competing against each other for the fastest time over bumps, jumps, and sharp turns on the slopes. A Canadian was favored to win, but that's not how it happened. Sarah Levitt has more.

Heartbreak for Howden. He was ranked number one in ski cross going into the Olympics, but Chiluac BC's Reese Howden failed to make it to the semifinals. Visibility was low with heavy wet snow falling and Howden wasn't happy about it. If this was a downhill race, it would have been canceled a long time ago. You know, it's just like I'm repeating myself, but it just really sucks. Like, if this is what I trained for the last four years to be a part of, then I'll wait another four years because this is just, it's really unfortunate that this is how the Olympics gets to end.

A favorite to win gold, Howden was a full second faster than any competitor in the first run to determine seating. Wow, what a run for Howden to start this day. But he ended up fourth of four in his quarterfinal run. has been tough for the Canadians through the quarters. None of the four Canadians advanced to the semifinals. Ottawa's Jared Schmidt was dealt a controversial call. Very frustrated after I do not... punching his ticket through to the quarters.

I do not agree with that call. He was given a rare yellow card for jostling a competitor on the slope, something he disagreed with. I feel like I kind of got robbed a little bit. It was a call that I don't think should have been made. We'll have a look at the video. but it's just super tough to be on the receiving end of a yellow card. But Schmidt held a different opinion than Howden on the weather.

I mean, for sure. It slows us down with fresh snow on the course. It's not ideal, but at the end of the day, we're all in the same boat. We all have to race down the same track. It's a winter sport, like I said before. So there's no denying that the weather could be bad or it could be exceptionally good. It's not optimal, that's for sure. Sweden's David Mowbr says the weather did have an effect. It's snowing so much now, so it gets slow in the course.

But he agrees everybody was affected. Italians went home with gold and silver, the Swiss with bronze, a day of bitter disappointment in Lavinio for the Canadians as the Olympics begin to wrap up. Sarah Levitt's CBC News, Lavinio, Italy. Elsewhere at the Olympic Games, it was a better day on the ice. with Canadian athletes bringing home three more medals. One gold, one silver, and one bronze.

Team Canada is eyeing another gold tomorrow as the men's hockey team takes on the U.S. in the final. Breyer Stewart is following all of this action in Milan. Breyer, let's start off with curling, a big success today. Canada's men's and women's teams both took home medals. This evening, Canada's men's curling team, skipped by Brad Jacobs, won against the top-ranked team, Great Britain, taking home the gold medal. Now, Jacobs had won gold at the Olympics before in Sochi in 2014,

but here he was competing with a new team, which included Mark Kennedy, Brett Gallant, and Ben Hebert. Now, earlier in the day, Rachel Holman and her teammates took home the bronze medal in women's curling. This was the first time that Canada had reached the Olympic podium in women's curling since 2014. Now, the team here struggled a little earlier on in the competition before hitting their stride and making it to the bronze medal match. and Mimiskew described just how the team handled the challenges. I was so proud that we even got to that game and then the chance that we had to even play for a medal after our start, we just really wanted to keep going.

We really just wanted to keep playing. And we said in the change room after we started, we were like, we're going to keep playing until they tell us to leave. And then we got to come home with a medal, and we're pretty proud of that. Definitely. And moving on to speed skating, there was a silver medal there. Yvonne Blondin won the medal.

in the mass start race. And it's a group race, which includes 16 laps. She came from behind in the final lap to win silver. It was also the same race where she earned silver back in the event in Beijing in 2022. The feistiness has always been within me. But that's also what wrote my career. And that's also why I'm still here, still fighting for medals. And I'm proud of that, proud of that legacy to leave behind.

All right. And tomorrow is the final day of a limel. Olympic competition. It's a really big one. Canada's men's hockey team playing for gold. What are we hearing about how the team's feeling heading into this final against the U.S.? Well, everyone knows what the stakes are here. I mean, this is a historic rivalry, and it's going to be a tough and competitive game, and people expect that, particularly given what we saw in the quarterfinals and semifinal rounds when games went into overtime. There was a practice session today, and after it, 19-year-old Macklin Celebrini, who, who, has been a standout on the team, talked about the dynamics of taking on the U.S.

I mean, this is it. We got to play our best game. And all you have to do is just look at the 2010 matchup. And every time Canada, U.S. face off, even last year with the four nations, I mean, there's that animosity between the two groups. And I think you just, I mean, it doesn't take a lot to realize what this means. The last time Canada won gold in a face-off with the U.S. was in 2010 in Vancouver. and that was when Sidney Crosby scored a goal in overtime. Now, Crosby didn't play in the semifinals here because he was injured. And while he did skate at practice today,

it's not yet clear whether he'll be able to take to the ice tomorrow for the game. All right, the CBC's Breyer Stewart in Milan. Thank you so much, Breyer. You're welcome. And the other big Olympics news today, the announcement of Canada's flag bearers. Speed skaters Stephen Dubois and Valerie Malte will carry the maple leaf at the closing ceremonies tomorrow.

This is my fifth Olympic and my last Olympic as an athlete, so it's a great way to end this chapter for me and to have this honor and to carry the flag for Canada and sharing it with Stephen. Yeah, honestly, I thought after the gold in the five, I'd done everything,

but I didn't really think about carrying the flag, so now the Val mentions it kind of really, finishes everything up in a nice way. Dubois won gold in the 500-meter short track and silver in the mixed team relay, while Malte took home three medals in long-track speed skating, bronze in the 3,000-meter and 1,500-meter races. She was also part of the team that took home gold in the team pursuit event. It's 320 kilometers long through the freezing cold, and it takes days to complete.

The Canadian challenge is Saskatchewan's biggest dog sled race. Among this year's sledders, a 17-year-old who picked up the harness from her father. Aisha Ashraf reports. In LaRange, it doesn't start all at once. It's one team at a time. Dogs hit the line. The sled snaps forward and the trail swallows the noise. This is the Canadian Challenge, the biggest sled dog race in Saskatchewan,

a grueling mid-distance run with the main event stretching roughly 320 kilometers, on northern trails, taking days to complete. This year, organizers were forced to cut roughly 60 kilometers off the course. After heavy snow and strong winds may travel more dangerous. It was definitely challenging with all the snow, especially on the lake parts, it was blowing snow, blowing at your face and the snow's coming in your eyes, and it's hard to see the trail markers. One of the mushers who pushed through those conditions was Monroe Mondore, coming back from a race she didn't finish last year.

as the landscape itself can change the ride. Parts of the route cut through areas hit by wildfires in recent years. And she says with fewer dense trees, the wind moves differently. Without the dense forest, it's a little bit more drifty and the snow blows in a bit more.

The trees don't catch the snow as much, so it comes down a little bit more heavy in the bush where the burn section is. For Monroe, this sport didn't start as a race. It started with being around the dogs and being pulled into the community. Her father, Dexter Mondore, says her growth was immediate and impressive. The first year, she was the handler, then decided she wanted to try it.

So then the next year, she was 13, she did a 50-mile race here by herself. From there, she kept stepping up the distance. And this year, she finished the full event after 42 hours on the trail. Her dad is still a part of every finish as her handler at checkpoints and the person she sees when she's running on fumes. It means the world. He's my handler. So to put up with me in the middle of the night

when I roll into the checkpoint I'm dead tired. I'm happy he's there. Dexter says the trail carries more than just race markers. For the Mondore family, it's also a connection to their Métis history. Well, it's a traditional way of travel, right? Like some of these trails are the original freight routes,

the original trap lines that our Méti and sisters travel. And when Monroe finally comes in, she says the ending is loud and the feeling is surreal. You can see the finish line. Everybody's standing there. You get closer and the dogs are picking up pace and everybody starts cheering. And then you cross the line and you feel just joy. Monroe Mondor didn't finish the Canadian Challenge last year.

This year, she came back and finished in the top five. And she says the biggest lesson is the one she keeps repeating to herself and others. You've got to try it. You can't hold back and you can't let your fears dictate what you do. Aisha Ashraf, CBC News, LaRange, Saskatch. We're ending with a look at where music and hockey come together. The men's Olympic hockey team is getting closer to its gold medal moment, and they've gotten here with two songs in tow.

For that first Olympic goal, courtesy of Macklin Celebrini, it was Blow at High Doe by the Tragically Hip. And for all the goals since, it's been feeling good by the Canadian band, The Sheep Dogs. Now the country's getting ready to wait. wake up early for the gold medal game, and we have a bit more homegrown music to get the team in the mood. Yes, it's our lane. We're one big hockey ring. True major fans, hockey loses from our glands.

That's the London Nationals junior hockey team in London, Ontario, singing their hearts out to pump up Team Canada in Italy. Not exactly dulcet tones. maybe we'll go back to the sheep dogs to go out here. But that song we heard for a minute there has its own special backstory. It's called We Shoot, We Score, and it's set to the tune of O Canada. It was written by a London veteran named Bruce Stock. Now, Stock wrote it because he believes this country needs a unifying hockey anthem,

and it's his dream that this song will one day be sung in all Canadian ranks at the start of third period. I think that's a great dream for Bruce, and depending on how things go tomorrow morning, we might be one step closer to it coming true. This has been your world tonight for Saturday, February 21st. I'm Kate McGilver. Good night. For more CBC podcasts, go to cBC.ca.com slash podcasts.