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0:00A vacation rental shouldn't come with surprises. It should come with Verbo Care and 24-7 Life Support. If the hot tub's broken, that's a Verbo Care thing. If my teenager starts calling me Leslie, that's a family thing Leslie. Verbo Care and 24-7 Life Support. If you know, you're Verbo. Terms apply. See Verbo.com slash trust for details. This is a CBC podcast. This is World Report. Good morning, I'm Marcia Young. Just after midnight tonight, Ottawa begins the dollar for dollar counter tariffs on U.S. goods. More than $27 billion worth of products are on the list. And the trickle down effect to business and consumers could be long-lasting. For more, we're joined by the CBC's Olivia Stifanovitch and Olivia. Which sectors are being targeted by these tariffs? Well, there's a whole range of American goods that Canada is targeting here. From golf clubs, electronics, furniture, appliances, and even pulp and paper. Now, retaliation will hit hardest for those sectors that the Trump administration

1:00has done the most damage to in Canada. And that includes U.S. steel and aluminum. Their tariffs will rise from 25 to 50 percent when Canada's counter-lovis kick in after the stroke of midnight. Now, the federal government says it needs to respond in this way to level the playing field for the $27 billion worth of Canadian goods that are facing new tariffs after trade talks collapsed with Washington. Prime Minister Mark Kerny says he had to walk away from a proposed trade agreement with the U.S. because it would have threatened Canada's sovereignty. Now, so far, formal negotiations haven't resumed. Kerny says he's prepared to send his negotiators back to the table, but only when the Trump administration gets serious and demonstrates it wants a true economic partnership. Olivia, what are we hearing now from politicians? Well, officials with the Trump administration are warning Canada not to go ahead with these counter-lovis, and they say the White House will respond. They've threatened more tariffs against Canada and used about even banning some Canadian goods.

2:03Over the weekend, Trump cryptically threatened the loony. He posted on Truth Social that the dollar imbalance with the U.S. is unacceptable. He also posted an illustration mocking the Prime Minister, a portrayal of Trump and a team USA hockey jersey with Kerny down on the ice, and Trump telling the Prime Minister, get up governor. All right, thank you, Olivia. You're welcome. The CBC's Olivia Stefanovic joining us from Ottawa. Quebec's premier is taking time out from the provincial election race to talk tariffs. Christine Farshett has called a special cabinet meeting for later this afternoon. No agenda has been made public. Recent data suggests the tariffs and counter-terrists will affect at least $8 billion worth of Quebec goods. Parts of northeastern Nova Scotia are bracing for more rain, forecasters say, as much as 40 millimeters could fall before the day is over. The region is still recovering from a powerful storm over the weekend.

3:03Kate Breton Island was hardest hit. Philip Lee Shannock has more on the recovery. You know, just when you think it's about to stop, it starts again. Don Chisholm surveys the damage to her property. A weekend storm brought rainfall totals upwards of 200 millimeters. Turning a creek into a raging river, washing away parts of her driveway. Okay. Well, I can't really drive through this. She says Island residents expect heavy rain multiple times a year, but not like this. I don't think people realize the power of those floodwaters and what it can do. Kim Maslan is Nova Scotia's emergency management minister. She says roads and bridges across the island have been washed out, making it difficult for officials to assess infrastructure damage. Certainly people stay off the roads, allow our emergency personnel to get out there, do the assessments and the work that they need to do safely. Nova Scotia Minister of Public Works, Fred Tilley says it will take a while for workers to tally the cost of repairs.

4:06They're working hard to assess the damage, but we have dozens of roads that are out, and we have a couple of bridges that are out as well. We need that water to, um, to receive, uh, in order to get a full assessment. The insurance bureau of Canada says flooding has become more frequent and costly. Over the last 20 years, losses have skyrocketed by more than 300 percent. Philippe Chinox, CBC News, Toronto. In Germany. Celebrations after alternative for Germany secures a historic victory, the far right party won the state elections of Saxony on Halt. AFD candidate Ulrich Sigmund picked up 40 percent of the vote. Sigmund says people want political change, and they want his party to lead that. At a news conference, Germany's chancellor Friedrich Meritz accepted the defeat.

5:06I would say all people in our country are going to lose their lives. Meritz says Germany's institutions remain stable, and its laws will be upheld. The AFD needs support from other parties to form government in Saxony on Halt. It is known for its pro-Russia and anti-immigration stance. Germany has a policy against coalitions involving far right parties in Nepal. People gather at a Buddhist temple near the Nepal Tibet border. It's one of several villages still trying to recover. Flash flooding swept through the region last month. Today, the country is holding a day of mourning. A landslide of ice, rock, and mud killed more than 1,300 people. At least 5,000 people are still missing, including several Canadians. It's been five days since anyone has heard from Kaley Macrystal. The BC athlete disappeared while training on the Matterhorn in the Italian Alps

6:08as Megan Williams explains rescuers are struggling to find clues. Rescuers return to the Matterhorn by helicopter Sunday, focusing on the area around peak tindle, more than 4,000 meters up. That's where a group of Polish climbers last saw Kaley Macrystal. The 38-year-old was descending after reaching the summit last Tuesday during an attempt to set a record. The BC runner did not check in and a hot lower down, so rescuers believe she went missing in the area between her last sighting and the hot. Valerio Segor with the Valdeusz-Domontin Rescue Service says crews have been trying to get as close as possible to the mountains cliffs and gullies. But due to cascading rocks, ground search is limited. It will be impossible to send someone by foot because it will be too dangerous for the rescuers. Rescuers have also tried a record detector, which can locate reflectors embedded in some outdoor equipment. But there's a catch. If you fall, it needs to be not below the body, but output on the upper part.

7:11The antenna won't hear anything, won't find anything. Investigators are now waiting for records from Italian and Swiss cell phone networks linked to Macrystal's virtual sim. Segor said family members of Macrystal had arrived in the mountain town of Chirvina from Canada. They were aboard one of the helicopter sweeps yesterday. Macrystal is the second climber to disappear in the Matterhorn in little more than a month. A finished climber went missing July 31 and remains unaccounted for. Megan Williams, CBC News, Rome. In Vancouver, an indigenous led company is working up an alternative to plastic packaging. It's part of a pilot project using logging waste and forest debris. Researchers say it could also help prevent forest fires. John Hernandez explains. Yale Zoo dumps a soupy mix of wood waste into a custom built machine in East Vancouver. Minutes later, it slides out through a tray in square form looking like a pulpy cake.

8:14Zoo is making what he calls wood firm a biodegradable alternative to plastic foam packaging. This product we've made it from their low value, palm wood fibers and forestry residue. What it we're trying to do is that we want to extract the majority of the value out of it. Zoo is one of the researchers behind the product. It's made at a small pilot plant called Ditchin Foam, which is majority owned by the Watsuitin First Nation. Once a mold is formed, Zoo and his small team of workers put it into an oven where it's cured and then ready to be used in everything from food to electronic packaging. Every tree that gets harvested 30% of the feedstock does not get utilized. Richard Chen is Ditchin Foam's CEO. The company's name is a play on the Watsuitin word for wood. He says the goal is to make use of logging waste, some of which can end up drying out and fuel wildfires. If we could even take a fraction of that and then replace

9:15everyday existing products that are made of plastics or very carbon-tested products, I feel like that's a big deal, right? Especially when we have materials just sitting in the forest. The company plans to expand to a second facility and produce 1,000 tons of wood foam per year. John Hernandez, CBC News, Vancouver. Former Canadian cabinet minister Otto Gelanick has died. Gelanick represented Oakville, Ontario for two decades as a progressive conservative. Under Brian Mulroney's government, he served as national revenue minister, along with sport, multiculturalism. Gelanick also was an Olympic figure skater. He competed for Canada in the 1960 games in California. Otto Gelanick was 86 years old. That is the latest national and international news from World Report. I'm Arsia Young. For more CBC podcasts, go to cbc.ca-slash-podcasts.