The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/20 at 19:00 EST

Episode Date: February 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/20 at 19:00 EST

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start listening today. From CBC News, the world this Hour, I'm Tom Harrington. An Ontario NDP candidate has ended her election campaign after a controversial social media post resurfaced. The Progressive Conservatives are doing intense opposition research as they try to win next week. Michelle Song reports. My secret is that I want to be a black woman. Ontario NDP candidate and sociology professor Amanda Zavitz chose to resign after controversy over comments in this resurfaced video. At a presentation last year for the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women,

Zavitz recalled an event she attended a decade ago. She was required to reveal a big secret. She said she wanted to be a black woman. I'm not really a minority. I want to lead or initiate the fifth wave of feminism. That's my dream. But it's difficult when you're called a Karen. Zavitz apologized and recognized her comments were harmful, but resigned because she doesn't want to distract from the Ontario NDP's chances. Throughout the campaign, the progressive conservatives have dug up social media posts of several candidates from opposing parties.

Posts that they deem offensive. Michelle Song, CBC News, Toronto. A Toronto man accused of planning a terrorist attack on New York's Jewish community has agreed to be extradited to the United States. Mohamed Shahzeb Khan was arrested near the Quebec-New York state border in September. Sarah Levitt has more. Appearing in court wearing a tracksuit with his hair and beard grown out, Mohamed Shahzeb Khan said few words yes to the judge's question if he agreed to be extradited and no if he

was coerced into the agreement. Much of what we know of the accusations against Khan come from court documents filed by the FBI. It accuses Khan of planning an ISIS-inspired mass shooting, specifically targeting the Jewish community in New York City. Undercover cops say they communicated with him through encrypted text messages. He was arrested in September near Montreal. His lawyer, Gaetan Bourassa, says Khan agreed to being extradited to speed things up.

He decided to waive all those delay and instead go to the States and do his trial as soon as possible. Khan will now be transferred from the Montreal Detention Centre to one in New York before his trial begins. Sarah Levitt, CBC News, Montreal. The Israeli military says one of the bodies released by Hamas today is unidentified. They were expecting to receive Shiri Bebus and her two children, an infant boy and his four-year-old brother, but the IDF says the third body was not the children's mother, adding it did not belong to

any other hostage. The family became a national symbol of the emotional toll of the October 7th hostages. Ottawa says it is listing seven transnational criminal organizations as terrorist entities under the Criminal Code. Public Safety Minister David McGinty says the move is part of the fight against fentanyl trafficking. President Donald Trump cited that issue as one of his reasons for imposing 25 percent tariffs on all Canadian goods. The measures we are taking will help keep fentanyl off Canadian streets and from entering the United States. To speak plainly, we are moving aggressively, using every tool in our toolbox to take the profit out of drug trafficking. The designation essentially freezes a listed group's assets and property, which are also subject to seizure or forfeiture.

Less than 1% of the fentanyl seized at the U.S. border last year came from Canada. Canada and the United States go head-to-head tonight in the championship game of the new Four Nations Face-Off Tournament. The rivalry seems even more intense after President Trump threatened Canada's sovereignty. When the teams met in the Ron Robbin portion, three frights broke out in the first nine seconds of the game. But Canada's head coach, John Cooper, hopes politics doesn't overshadow the occasion. There might be hotly contested on the ice and there could be chants going on in the stands, but we're here to celebrate the sport.

Canadians booed the American national anthem in Saturday's matchup in Montreal. Tonight's game is being played in Boston and starts at 8 p.m. Eastern Time tonight. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tom Harrington. Thanks for listening.