The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/17 at 21:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/17 at 21:00 EDT

Overwhelmed by debt? You are not alone. Empower yourself with trusted solutions. Visit Canada.ca slash debt dash solutions and regain control with confidence. A message from the Government of Canada. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neal Herland. We begin with breaking news from Gaza, The fragile ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian

militant group Hamas appears to be over. The Israeli military has just released a statement on the Telegram platform saying in accordance with the political echelon, the Israeli Defense Forces and Israeli Security Agency are currently conducting extensive strikes on terror targets belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip. Tonight a series of explosions are being heard across the Gaza Strip. The Reuters news agency says the Palestinian Civil Emergency Service is reporting 15 people were killed. It also says Israel carried out at least 35 airstrikes on the strip. A ceasefire and hostage release began on January 19th.

Manitoba RCMP say a second set of remains found in a Winnipeg area landfill have now been identified as belonging to Mercedes Myron. Previous remains found at the Prairie Green landfill were identified earlier this month as belonging to Morgan Harris. Both women were murdered by a convicted killer in 2022. Manitoba Premier Wab Kanu responded to the news. Mercedes Myron and Morgan Harris are coming home. This is what we set out to do. I don't know if many of us knew the odds of success. I certainly was always trying to keep a realistic perspective but it turns out bringing them home was within our grasp and

something we were able to do for these families. Canoe's NDP government authorized the search in December after the previous conservative government decided not to, saying it was expensive and potentially hazardous. Canoe says remains continue to be found and the search might continue for a few more weeks. Prime Minister Mark Carney says there's only so far Canada can go in pushing back against the United States with counter tariffs. Carney made the comment during a packed day of international meetings. Catherine Cullen has more from London.

Prime Minister of Canada, Your Majesty the Majesty. There was a one-on-one meeting with King Charles and enthusiastic welcomes from France's Emmanuel Macron and the UK's Keir Starmer. Prime Minister Mark Carney can point to the beginning of a new partnership with France on intelligence and security, but more than concrete change, the trip mostly demonstrated Canada has friends besides the United States. There are limits.

Carney also acknowledged there's only so far Canada can go, hitting back against the U.S. with dollar-for-dollar counter tariffs. There's a limit to matching these tariffs dollar-for-dollar, given the fact that our economy is a tenth the size of the United States. Donald Trump has talked about global reciprocal tariffs on April 2nd. Carney says his government wouldn't put in place counter tariffs that are outright harmful to Canada. Catherine Cullen, CBC News, London.

Conservative leader Pierre Poliev is vowing to get rid of all carbon pricing if he forms the next government. Prime Minister Mark Carney signed a directive Friday ending the consumer carbon tax. Poliev says that's not enough. This law is still in place even though Mr. Carney has signed a fake executive order to hide the tax for 35 or 40 days leading up to the election. The full carbon tax also applies to industries. Mr. Carney has said that he wants to expand the industrial carbon tax beyond the already eye-watering increases the government has passed into law.

Poliev spoke at a steel factory in eastern Ontario that's been hit by layoffs caused by Donald Trump's tariffs. An Ontario court has found a 2023 stabbing at the University of Waterloo was not terrorism, but the judge ruled it did constitute a particularly grave hate crime. 25-year-old Giovanni Vallalba Aleman attacked people in a gender studies class, stabbing a professor and two students. The former student later pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated assault and other charges. The attacker has been sentenced to 11 years in prison minus four years for pre-sentencing time in custody. And that is your World This Hour. I'm Neal Herland.