The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/16 at 15:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 16, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/16 at 15:00 EDT

In Scarborough, there's this fire behind our eyes. A passion in our bellies. It's in the hearts of our neighbors. The eyes of our nurses. And the hands of our doctors. It's what makes Scarborough, Scarborough. In our hospitals, we do more than anyone thought possible. We've less than anyone could imagine.

But it's time to imagine what we can do with more. Join Scarborough Health Network and together, we can turn grit into greatness. Donate at lovescarborough.ca. From CBC News, The World This Hour, I'm Juliane Hazelwood. Prime Minister Mark Carney is preparing to depart for his first foreign trip today.

He'll visit France and the UK, and he's expected to talk about security and trade ties. Anna Cunningham tells us what's on the itinerary. First stop for Prime Minister Mark Carney will be the Elysee Palace in Paris. It's likely he'll be greeted by President Emmanuel Macron with the usual French pomp and ceremony. The Prime Minister's office says the focus in Paris will be on a shared commitment to build stronger economic, commercial and defence ties. Then it's on to London to meet British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. London Talks, his office say, will be about strengthening transatlantic security, growing

the AI sector and a strong commercial relationship between both countries. The French and Brits will want to talk about Ukraine. Carney joined a virtual summit Saturday of the Coalition of the Willing. We can expect US President Donald Trump's tariffs will also get a mention when he sits down in Paris and London. As for a meeting with the King, seen recently wearing his Canadian medals, that would be another soft political intervention from the monarch, keeping Canada on his mind. Anna Cunningham, CBC

News, London. Canada's ambassador to the US says the government's strategy in navigating the trade war with Washington should aim to be less reactive to every comment made by the Trump administration. I just think we need to kind of not always take every single interview completely to heart. And it doesn't mean that it's not, it's appropriate, but on the other hand, we are, we are having to move from here to a place where we can solve these problems with the Americans. Kirsten Hillman was at a meeting this past week with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Letnick and Ontario Premier Doug Ford.

She echoes Ford's sentiment that it was a constructive meeting. Hillman says the conversation gave him an opportunity to push back on how the U.S. trade agenda doesn't recognize the importance of Canada-U.S. integration. At least 59 people are dead and more than 150 others injured after a fire at a nightclub in North Macedonia. Police detained the club's owner and issued arrest warrants for four others in connection with the blaze. Dominic Villaines reports. The club in Kachani was packed when the fire broke out in the early hours of the morning.

Nearly 60 people were killed in the blaze. Many more were injured. The eyewitness video taken before the fire shows a band playing on stage flanked by flares, the white sparks of which appear to set the ceiling alight. As well as those killed, nearly 160 people were injured in the fire. At one of the hospitals treating them, relatives wait anxiously for news of their loved ones. The owner of the nightclub has reportedly been detained by the authorities in connection with the fire, while arrest warrants have been issued for several others. Dominic Velaitis for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. Iran-backed Houthi rebels say they're considering ramping up attacks on Red Sea shipping.

That follows US airstrikes Saturday on targets in Yemen that Houthi officials say killed at least 31 people. Airstrikes the U.S. vows won't end until the Houthis lose the ability to attack. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S. won't back down. This is not a one-off. This is an effort to deny them the ability to continue to constrict and control shipping. This is not going to happen. We're not going to have these guys, these people with weapons,

able to tell us where our ships can go, where the ships of all the world can go, by the way. It's not just the U.S. We're doing the world a favor. The Houthis claim they've hit an American aircraft carrier in the Red Sea, but there's been no verification. In Alberta, the union representing more than 4,000 school support workers say they've reached tentative deals that could end a two-month strike as early as Wednesday. The Canadian Union of Public Employees says the contracts are for staff with the Edmonton Public School Board, as well as the public and Catholic school boards in Fort McMurray. And that is your World This Hour.

For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.