Your World Tonight - Wildfire evacuations, Quadeville looks for answers, Mafia museum and more.

Episode Date: July 13, 2025

From northern Ontario...All the way to British Columbia...Wildfire season is taking a toll. Thousands of people -- mostly in remote communities -- Are leaving their homes and running to safety.And: Quadville, Ontario is still searching for answers after last month's brutal attack on an 8-year-old girl. Police held a town hall on Saturday to provide some clarity about their investigation.Also: Scarface...Goodfellas...The Godfather....Movie fans have always been in love with gangsters and mob bosses. But the reality of organized crime is far less exciting than what you see on the silver screen. A new Museum in Rome aims to shatter Hollywood's image of the mafia -- by putting a focus on its victims.Plus: A former Residential school is turned into a courthouse, Jannik Sinner wins Wimbledon, and more.

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We will continue to prepare for the countermeasures so we are fully prepared. But European leaders say they will be ready to respond when the time comes. And a place for justice and reconciliation. We are changing the court systems so that they fit our needs instead of us having to adapt and work with their systems. A former residential school is turned into a courthouse on Vancouver Island. A water bomber flies over a wildfire bearing down on Garden Hill First Nation in northern Manitoba. The remote community has been under a mandatory evacuation order since Thursday.

At least 1,800 people have been flown by Hercules aircraft to safety in Winnipeg. At a Winnipeg hotel, community leaders have set up a command center. Craig Monroe is the vice chief of Garden Hill First Nation. He's focused on getting people who are most vulnerable into hotel rooms. We do not want our elders to be sleeping on the cots and the people who are sick especially. The people who have dialysis, you know they can't sleep in these cots. Especially with everybody all around you, you just, the noise, everything just adds up and you just can't. Meanwhile, evacuation of the Pecan--Kam First Nation in northern Ontario is still in the

early stages. Ontario Provincial Police say about 45 people were evacuated Saturday and about 250 are being flown out today. And near the northern community of Beauval, Saskatchewan, winds are whipping up the flames of an out-of-control fire. Mayor Rick Laliberté says firefighters have been able to protect all the homes in the community. Thankfully, those heroes, the firefighters that faced that wall of fire, they persevered. We've got heroes and angels here on the ground that saved our precious belongings in our homes.

They're battling right now the hotspots. It was a monster that came through here. We woke up a giant. Fire officials say there are 57 wildfires burning Saskatchewan right now. While in BC, a new fire was sparked about two kilometers east of Princeton near the US border. The BC wildfire service says resources

from a fire in the back country were redirect BC Wildfire Service says resources from a fire in the back country were redirected. It's also warning of a predicted change in the weather over the next couple days that's expected to amp up dangerous conditions on the South Coast. Still ahead, Scarface, Goodfellas, The Godfather. Movie fans have always been in love with gangsters and mob bosses, but the reality of organized crime is far less exciting than what you see on the silver screen.

A new museum in Rome aims to shatter Hollywood's image of the mafia by putting the focus on its victims. That's later on Your World Tonight. victims. That's later on Your World Tonight. What a difference a year makes. Twelve months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump faced an assassination attempt at a campaign stop in Butler, Pennsylvania. Now back in the White House for a second term, he's threatening the European Union and Mexico with 30% tariffs as of August 1st. Both European leaders and Mexico's President Claudia Scheinbaum have voiced disappointment in Trump's threats. And they say they remain committed to negotiating deals before the deadline. Chris Glover has more.

He knows that this is much bigger than him. This is about the American people. A video on Donald Trump's YouTube channel marking the one-year anniversary of the assassination bigger than him. This is about the American people. A video on Donald Trump's YouTube channel marking the one-year anniversary of the assassination attempt against him. Donald Trump seems to always get stronger when challenged. Right now, he's being challenged all over the world, including by his largest trading partner, the EU. And we will continue to prepare for the countermeasures

so we are fully prepared. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is still plotting the response for when Trump goes ahead with his new threat against them of 30 percent tariffs if no deal is struck by August 1st. This is very important. This is now the time for negotiations, but this also shows we are prepared

for all eventual scenarios. You know, to what extent will the EU seek to coordinate… Jacob von Kürtgard with the European Economic Think Tank says it's key the rest of the G7 allies synchronize their aim. But if it comes to everybody having to retaliate against the United States on August 1st, it's better to do so in a somewhat coordinated manner. And that type of coordination I think would certainly benefit Canada as well. Markets will react with volatility. German economist Carsten Brzeski warns 30% US tariffs on European goods

could mean a retraction for Europe's economy. If we were to get the 30% tariffs, that Europe would again be pushed back close to a recession. And that is clearly a scenario Europe should try to avoid. The U.S. makes up around 350 million euros a year of France's dairy industry. Slicing into the 25 tons of cheese the French send to the states annually would stink, according to the head of the country's dairy federation. François Xavier-Huert says he's losing hope a trade deal will be reached by August and

the dairy boss is bracing for impact. Some American retailers are panicking too. I am extremely concerned. In San Francisco, grocery store owner Maria Guadalupe Lopez worries she's cooked. I think we have reached the limit. At this point, there's no way that we can keep eating those costs, because otherwise we're going to go out of business. They've been taking advantage of us for 30, 40 years.

But in a sit-down with Trump's daughter-in-law, Laura Trump, the U.S. president says he is full steam ahead. In some cases, we'll make deals. You know, we'll make a direct deal as opposed to a letter. And we've already made some of them with various countries. He says deals with Vietnam and the U.K., but very little is public about either, and time is running out on the rest with that August 1st deadline just over two weeks away. Chris Glover, CBC News, Washington. A small eastern Ontario community is still searching for answers after last month's brutal

attack on an eight-year-old girl. Police held a town hall on Saturday to provide some clarity about their investigation, but as Nicole Williams tells us, some say it fell short. How did it take you guys as long as it did to find that little girl? Almost six hours. The meeting began with a moment of tension between Acting Chief Superintendent Derek Needham with the Ontario Provincial Police and Chris McGrath, a community member close to the eight-year-old victim. It does take time to get some of those specialized services here. As a parent, that's not good enough.

That should be there when the call is put out. So in order to assemble the resources that we need to do an effective search and start the search, it does take time to bring everybody in to do that. McGrath, unsatisfied, walks out of the town hall. He leaves behind the rest of the crowd who for nearly three weeks have been desperate for answers about what happened to the girl still recovering in hospital, about her brutal injuries that police initially suspected was an animal attack and now about the 17 year old boy from the same rural area

charged with attempted murder and sexual assault with a weapon on a minor currently in custody. Sandy Musclow is a longtime resident of Quadville. It's been a bit difficult to figure out how to support both families, extended families. These are people we've known forever, We've grown up with them and we really want to make sure that we feel like everyone can feel the pain and move forward together as a community. Police didn't share many details. OPP spokesperson Bill Dixon. We can't talk about a lot of things because we could jeopardize the investigation. An investigation he says still has unanswered questions.

Our team is continuing to reach out to those of you who may have potential information regarding this case. The crowd was warned anything said during the town hall could potentially be used in court. And with that in mind many appeared hesitant to speak. The meeting ended after just 35 minutes. As people begin to filter out into the summer heat, some say they're comforted to have heard from police at all, others still feeling in the dark. We all really just wanna know exactly what happened.

There's gotta be more than they're telling us. It's unbelievable, unbelievable. But we all hope that it's going to be resolved soon. Community officials are trying to support those living here. The local church is offering up grief counseling to those who need it, the Township planning to offer the same through victim services. Nicole Williams, CBC News, Quadville, Ontario. The new provincial courthouse in Tofino, British Columbia, isn't just a place for justice. It's now a symbol of continued First Nations reconciliation. The court was moved to the site of a former residential school,

a move spearheaded by the local First Nation. It allowed CBC News to capture some moments from inside the courthouse. Yasmine Renea was there. Court begins with a prayer from a Tollokwit First Nation elder. It's one of the many things that make this court unique. First time session, the uncle Judge Wolf is out. Judge Alexander Wolf doesn't sit on an elevated bench. Instead, he sits at eye level with everyone else.

Anyone in the courtroom is allowed to stand up and share their thoughts during the proceeding. In the mainstream court systems, it's a little more unusual for a judge to look directly at the client or the person accused with the crime and start to talk with them directly. Whereas in this environment, I think there's a safety that exists. Court is taking place on traditional Tloquiat territory in what used to be the gymnasium of the Christie Indian Residential School. We have a basketball hoop set up here. Thomas George was forced to attend the school when he was 13

and says it can still feel eerie walking through the building. Lots of bad things happened there and it's hard to talk about that part of it, right? The school closed in 1983. Instead of knocking the building down, the gym was turned into a conference center as part of a resort owned by the Tolequia First Nation. It has seen positive events like weddings and potlatches. The First Nation says despite its troubled past, the building has become a source of comfort for community

members. It's why they want justice to be served here. We are changing the court systems so that they fit our needs instead of us having to adapt and work with their systems. Desiree Joseph is one of nine members of the telequiet justice committee, which supports victims and alleged offenders. From offering coffee and tea at the courthouse, to helping families find alternative ways to resolve disputes outside of the criminal justice system. It's sitting down with elders, maybe it's doing traditional things or apologizing and being accountable in different ways. She says court is becoming less intimidating. We're creating a better system on how to report things and how to support people and to also avoid that over-representation in the system to begin with.

Tloquit has an agreement with the provincial government to hold court on its territory until 2028, but the nation hopes it can be there permanently. Yasmine Raneilla, CBC News, Tifino, British Columbia. In the Middle East, the fatal beating of a Palestinian American is focusing attention again on Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank. Ahead of his funeral Sunday, the family called on the US State Department to launch an investigation. Meanwhile, people in Gaza are finding fewer places to shelter in safety. Israeli strikes killed at least 32 people on Sunday, including six children at a water collection point.

Sasha Petruzek reports from Jerusalem. Parents run with screaming children in their arms. The dead and injured lie in the dust. The victims were mostly children when an Israeli rocket hit a line of Palestinians waiting to fill water bottles in Newusayret in central Gaza. It's alarming, says Dr. Ahmed Abu Saifan, who treated many of the victims. We're already in a health care crisis, he says,

due to Israel's blockade of supplies. The International Red Cross says mass casualty cases are filling hospitals with more arriving in the past six weeks than in the past year. Many have come from shootings around aid distribution sites run by a US Israeli organization Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the only one allowed to operate. The UN says 800 people have been killed in this way. Deaths eyewitnesses blame on Israeli soldiers and Israel denies.

Living amid piles of rubble, Palestinians say they feel targeted and chased across Gaza. One group was forced to flee their tents today when tanks positioned themselves nearby. What's going to happen to us? Asks Isad Abu Armana. We're thrown on the streets like dogs. Then they shoot at us. Anger also in the occupied West Bank as the bodies of two young men are carried aloft for burial. One was shot confronting Israeli settlers on his land, another was beaten to death by them.

He was a Palestinian American. Camille Mousselat is his father. We demand justice. We demand justice against these settler terrorists. We demand the US government to do something about it. Since the war started in Gaza, the number of clashes between Palestinians and settlers in the West Bank has soared, with the UN saying more than 900 Palestinians have been killed as settlers overrun Palestinian villages and fields. Few settlers are ever prosecuted. In fact, they've been defended by settler leaders who are now cabinet ministers in the Israeli government. They're also the ones pressing for Israel to reject any ceasefire agreement and keep fighting in Gaza.

Sasha Petrusic, CBC News, Jerusalem. In the Philippines, alarm bells are ringing over rising rates of HIV infections. Public health advocates are pointing the blame at a lack of comprehensive sex education in the country's schools. Freelance reporter Dave Grunemenbaum has the story for us tonight. What is STI? STI means Sexual Transmitted Infection. In front of a group of about 20 teenage boys and girls, Justa Manalaysi is spreading the word about the risks of unprotected sex. HIV means Human Immunodeficiency Virus. They discuss contraception methods including abstinence, IUDs, and birth control pills.

There's also an explanation of how to properly put on a condom. The Comprehensive Sex Education Workshop is run outside of school by Lika-An Center for Women's Health, a non-government organization that focuses on reproductive health, access to condoms, and sex education. This kind of information is daily bad for their protection. During the first three months of this year, the average number of daily new HIV cases in the Philippines rose to 57. That's a 50% increase compared to a year ago and about one-third belong to youth ages 15 to 24.

I think what's driving this increase in the cases of HIV is risky behavior. Chara Lakayana is teaching this workshop alongside Manalasi. She has regular conversations with teens about their habits and is alarmed by what many of them tell her. Some boys don't really just use condoms. A half dozen of the teens at this workshop told me they found it helpful because the only form of contraception taught in their high schools is abstinence. Conservative voices in the country, including the influential Catholic Church, oppose comprehensive sex education in schools. We are only creating a culture of permissiveness. Father Jerome Siciliano, a spokesperson for the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines,

says conversations about using condoms are counterproductive. What will help reduce HIV infection to tell them not to engage in sex. You only have sex when you are already married, period. This HIV patient requested anonymity because he faces discrimination. He's 21 and tested positive three years ago. He acknowledges that before testing positive, he had unprotected sex with multiple partners. He also says if he was offered comprehensive sex education while in school, he would have been more careful.

He says comprehensive sex education should be promoted in schools for people to become aware of how important it is for our health and also how important it is to use condoms. Earlier this year, critics successfully quashed a bill in the Philippines Congress for comprehensive sex education in schools. The lawmakers who support it are preparing a new bill which seems all but certain to be controversial. Dave Grunebaum for CBC News, Malabon, Philippines. MUSIC Hollywood loves a gangster, but in a former movie theater in Rome, a new museum is challenging

the pop culture fascination with the mob. It commemorates the thousands of innocent victims of the mafia in Italy. Megan Williams takes us there. If you hear the word mafia, a few familiar scenes might spring to mind. I'm gonna make him an offer the camera feels. We saw that guy but we had a problem. Got a little physical. As far back as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster. Hollywood and TV have served up a full course of mobster mythology but the reality of the mafia is a lot less entertaining, especially

for the thousands caught in its crossfires. That's the message at Rome's Museum of Mafia Victims, opened by the anti-mafia group Libera. Libera was founded 30 years ago by priest and activist Luigi Ciotti. Since then, Libera helped pass Italy's landmark law that turns confiscated mafia property into spaces for social good. Old mob villas into farms, brothels into shelters, and this museum, a former mafia-run bingo hall, into a place of memory and resistance. It's staffed by young interns like Martina Gropo, who says exhibitions give voice to the innocent victims. One thousand one hundred.

And we are working to put more because there are five thousand documents. So this exhibition is a work in progress, basically. Visitors can click on the names of victims that float on screens. Not just famous judges like Giovanni Falcone or Paolo Borsellino. The pair was assassinated in separate bombing attacks after spending their careers fighting the mafia. There was a mother of one of the police officers that was following Falcone that died during the attack.

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go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, goorelli, an off-duty carabinieri, shot during an entrangheta ambush. His son, Alfredo, just seven, is one of the museum's recorded voices, recounting the day his father died and the life it forced him to lead. In a listening room, visitors can hear his memory. My first memory of my father was him showing me the sea, taking me there on the back of a red Vespa. Each glowing name in the exhibit is a life interrupted and a story reclaimed. For us it's not important the assassination or the mafia crime.

For us it's important the entire life of the person. Says Libere's head of confiscated assets, Tatiana Giannone. If she was a teacher or if she was a judge and so on, but it's also important the reaction of community. So for us it's important when people stand together with the families of the victim. Like the daughter of Renata Fonte, a city councillor murdered in the 1980s for opposing illegal development in the region of Puglia, Sabrina Matrangelo, now an activist, recalls buying a record with her mum the day before she was shot. A new song by Francesco De Gregori.

the day before she was shot, a new song by Francesco De Gregori. My mother said the song was about us, says Sabrina, about standing up to society and dreaming of freedom, just like the museum, which gives voices to those silenced by violence. just like the museum, which gives voices to those silenced by violence. The most difficulties for us is to intervene in the perception of mafia crimes and corruption crimes due to all the TV series, films, Godfather and so on. But here in the Mafia Museum, as the voices of the victims rise up, the myths begin to fade, replaced by names, stories, and the courage to remember them. Megan Williams, CBC News, Rome. At Wimbledon. There you go, Yannick Sinner hoists the tournament trophy above his

head. The 23 year old Italian tennis player claimed his first Wimbledon Championship Sunday defeating his rival Carlos Alcaraz from Spain. For more on the final, we're joined by freelance sports writer Ed Klyman. So, Ed, Janek Sinner claiming his first Wimbledon title against Carlos, who defeated him just last month at the French Open. How did he do it? Eli, even for the great Carlos Alcaraz, when Janek Sinner is playing at his very, very best, it is absolutely suffocating. He puts his opponents under extreme relentless pressure, he crushes the ball, he's got great consistency, he moves great, he serves with

a great accuracy, and in this case, he actually came through. In Paris, he didn't. What I mean by that is he did all of those things in Paris. He won the first two sets. He got himself to match point, of them and then he blinked. This time when Sinner got to match point he was calm, collected, and aggressive and he finished the job quickly. What Yannick Sinner did, he learned his lesson from Paris. It sounds like we're seeing Sinner at his full potential now. I think we are. I mean what he's been doing lately has been phenomenal. The only person who's come close to touching him is Alcaraz. I mean, Sinner is on a historically good run right now.

The only guy who can come close to touching him is Alcaraz and today he beat Alcaraz, his great rival. So, I mean, let's put that in perspective in the history of men's tennis. You've had Jorg vs. McEnroe, we've had of course Federer vs. Nadal. Are Sinner and Alcaraz the next great rivalry? In my mind, there's no doubt about it. Yes, they are. They've got everything that you want among great rivals. So let's start with how dominant they are. As the greatest of all time, Novak Djokovic put it, when he got beaten by Sinner in the semifinals at Wimbledon, these guys are two levels

above everybody else. And I think what makes great rivalries particularly compelling is when you have a really solid contrast to look at. And we've got that with these two. Althoraz, he's got the flamboyant athleticism, the creativity, the variety variety and then sinner Super consistent super powerful when they match up It's really attractive tennis and their personalities are very different Alcares. He's super extroverted He's always having fun out there laughing joking sinner really calm quiet Very businesslike and so what they have both said that I find is most exciting is that they're pushing each

other to higher heights. And I should add, for Canadian tennis fans, what maybe is most exciting right now about this rivalry is there's a very good chance the next time they will play will be on Canadian soil. A few weeks from now, the Canadian Open will be taking place. The men will be in Toronto, the women in Montreal. Now, speaking of the women, yesterday we had a final, I guess not much of a rivalry. One of the most one-sided matches in Wimbledon history. Tell us about it.

Eli, I think one-sided might be understating it. What we had was the double bagel. Six love, six love. where one player does not win a single game. It's only the second time it's happened in the open era. And on the losing side was Amanda Anisimova. And I think she can be forgiven. It's her first Grand Slam final and her opponent was exactly the player you do not want to face when that happens. Iga Špiontek, she is an amazing front runner.

She loves those six-o sets. And if I look at what Špiontek has she is an amazing frontrunner. She loves those 6-0 sets. And if I look at what Špiontek has done so far in her career, this was the sixth time that she's been in a Grand Slam final. She's won them all. She just loves the moment. So look out for Ega Špiontek in Montreal. I think she's going to be a force to be reckoned with in the summer hard court season. Alright, thanks so much, Ed. Thanks, Eli. That's freelance sportswriter writer Ed Klayman.

Little taste there, the unmistakable voice of Freddie Mercury with Queen, just part of the band's 21-minute performance at Live Aid. 40 years ago today, in the middle of the greed is good, go-go 1980s, the world stopped to watch the lineup of a lifetime as music stars from across the sonic spectrum gathered to raise money and awareness to fight the famine in Ethiopia. The 16-hour show featured Tina Turner, U2, David Bowie, Madonna and more. The audience was estimated at 1.9 billion viewers, but a critical part of it, according to the organizer Bob Geldof, was the footage of the famine provided by a crew from CBC News. It's really a story of why journalism is so important, why fact, truth, showing you reality,

not some nonsense, and making you see it, and then saying, and now what? That's Geldof on CBC Radio's Q talking about the news coverage from former CBC foreign correspondent Brian Stewart. As the famine in northern Ethiopia became dire, both CBC and BBC sent journalists into the field. Here's Stewart, ever the humble reporter, describing the contribution. It was really not me I Live Aid at all, myself. It was a strip of video put together by a CBC, Colin Dean, an editor, and brilliant camera work

by Philip P.R., a cameraman, that ran for a few minutes. And it was just, as Geldof and others have said, it stopped the world in its tracks. In the end, Live Aid raised over a hundred million dollars US. Stewart says he shed a few tears watching the show from Toronto and this concert that showed what artists and governments can do when people pull together. In these fractious times, Live Aid may feel like another world. So here's another reminder with George Michael and Elton

John on piano with Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me. And that's it for this edition of Your World Tonight. I'm Eli Glasner. Thanks slash podcasts.