The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/19 at 11:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/19 at 11:00 EDT

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and why he consolidated certain portfolios. Ashley Burke explains. It's a political strategy. For Rabia Hooter, the new Prime Minister's decision to consolidate some cabinet portfolios is viewed as a strategic choice ahead of a looming election. To get rid of anything that has to do with equity, diversity and inclusion. She's the National Director of Disability Without Poverty, one of more than 200 advocacy groups and organizations calling on Mark Carney to reinstate a series of ministerial roles solely dedicated

to portfolios like persons with disabilities, women, gender equity and youth, along with official languages and seniors. We're concerned that we lost a champion at the cabinet table because this issue is no longer given the priority that it needs. Those portfolios aren't gone but the minister's titles are. The work will now fall under other ministers' expanded portfolios. Ashley Burke, CBC News, Ottawa. On an election-style visit to Sudbury, Ontario today, party leader Pierre Poliev says a conservative government would prioritize opening up the region's rare mineral deposits. It would be life-changing for Northern Ontario towns, galvanizing thousands of paychecks

and modern infrastructure. It would help our First Nations become richer. It would boost our economy with billions of dollars, allowing us to become less dependent on the Americans after we start selling those resources overseas. The region in question is known as the Ring of Fire. It's north of Thunder Bay, and it contains vast deposits of nickel, copper, platinum, and cobalt, potentially worth tens of billions of dollars. And Poliev says his government would offer a billion dollars over a three-year period

to help develop road infrastructure. For the second day in a row, Israel has carried out a series of airstrikes on Gaza. And they're saying to us, you know, what does it say about our values, that we can't stop a 21st century atrocity happening before our eyes? That is UN humanitarian official Tom Fletcher on what he's hearing from his staff on the ground in Gaza. It's being reported that at least 12 people have been killed, with Israel saying one of the targets today was a Hamas military site.

Today's strikes follow a bombing campaign yesterday that claimed more than 400 lives. We're expecting Russia and Ukraine to carry out a prisoner exchange today. The Kremlin says it will include 23 wounded Ukrainians currently in Russian medical facilities. It follows a telephone call yesterday between Putin and US President Donald Trump. Shortly after that call, Ukraine says it shot down more than 40 drones fired by the Russian military. Looking for a bigger piece of the pie, some of the world's top tennis players are taking legal action against the organizations that run their sport. Mike Crowley has more. The Canadians can start to celebrate.

Vashek Pospisil helped Canada win the Davis Cup in 2022. Now he's trying to win a lawsuit. Pospisil is one of the co-founders of the Professional Tennis Players Association, a sort of players union that's suing the organizations behind the men's and women's pro tours. The whole system, the whole structure of tennis, everything needs to change. In much of pro sports, including hockey, football and golf, players collectively earn around half the sports revenue. At tennis grand slams such as Wimbledon, the share that goes to players like Pospacil is roughly 15%. In a statement, the organization that runs the

women's tour calls the lawsuit regrettable and misguided. The men's tour calls it entirely without merit. The lawsuit was filed in New York, London and Brussels. It claims the global tennis tours use anti-competitive business practices to keep players' earnings low. Mike Crawley, CBC News, Toronto. And that is The World This Hour. For news anytime, go to our website, cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.