The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/28 at 07:00 EST

Episode Date: February 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/28 at 07:00 EST

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The Ontario Progressive Conservatives, under leader Doug Ford, are returning to the legislature with a third straight majority. The PCs cruise to a comfortable win in yesterday's provincial election, with Ford setting himself up as the province's defender against the Trump administration. Jamie Strashan reports. Oh, thank you so much. Ontario voters have handed Doug Ford the fresh mandate he was looking for.

Ford called his winter snap election against the backdrop of looming US tariff threats, portraying himself as the only leader capable of standing up to Donald Trump. We ask the people for a mandate, a strong mandate that outlives and outlasts the Trump administration. The NDP will remain the official opposition at Queens Park. For the Liberals, it was a night of mixed results. The party gained seats and regained official party status, but leader Bonnie Crombie failed to win in Mississauga where she was once mayor. The Greens held the two seats they had coming into the election. Poll analyst Eric Grenier says the looming tariff issue defined this election. Even when we weren't actually talking about

the Ontario election, we were talking about the issue that Doug Ford wanted to run this campaign on. Ford will now get his wish, a chance to outlive and outlast the Trump administration. Jamie Strash in CBC News, Toronto. Health officials say Ontario is experiencing its largest measles outbreak in almost 30 years. 78 new measles cases have been identified over the course of two weeks. The new cases bring Ontario's total this year to just over 140. That surpasses the 101 infections recorded over a 10-year period starting back in 2013.

Public Health Ontario says it's the largest outbreak the province has seen since measles were considered eliminated in Canada more than 30 years ago. The Supreme Court of Canada will hear a language case being argued in New Brunswick. It's over the province's Lieutenant Governor position and whether the appointee has to be bilingual. Bobbi Jean McKinnon reports. It's a good day for New Brunswick,

Francophones, Acadian. Nicole Arsenault-Sleider is president of the Acadian Society of New Brunswick. Her group challenged the 2019 appointment of former Lieutenant Governor Brenda Murphy. Murphy made attempts to learn French but was not fluent. Arsenault-Sleider says the Constitution requires New Brunswick's Lieutenant Governor to be bilingual. Well, it's an important position in New Brunswick and we are the only bilingual province in

Canada. The Acadian Society won its case in 2022 at the Superior Trial Court for the province. Chief Justice Tracy DeWeer ruled that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms imposes a bilingualism requirement not just on the institution but on the person holding the position of Lieutenant Governor. But the New Brunswick Court of Appeal overturned that decision last May. It ruled that while people appointed to the position should ideally be fluent in the province's two official languages, the charter does not require it. No date for the hearing has been set yet.

Bobbi Jean McKinnon, CBC News, St. John. B.J. UKR. President Volodymyr Zelensky meets today at the White House with U.S. President Donald Trump. He's expected to sign an agreement that will give the U.S. access to Ukraine's rare mineral deposits. It's not clear what security guarantees or military support Ukraine can expect in return, but Trump has said he's looking to recover some of the costs the U.S. has paid out in backing the Ukrainian war effort. Greek protesters are clashing today with police in Athens. Protesters are throwing rocks and makeshift fire bombs at officers in riot gear.

Police are firing back with tear gas. The demonstrators gathered this morning to mark two years since a train crash in northern Greece killed 57 people. The protesters are accusing the conservative government of inaction as the investigation into that crash continues. And the subsequent protests are some of the biggest the country has seen since the debt crisis more than a decade ago. And that is the World This Hour.

For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.