The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/20 at 11:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 20, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/20 at 11:00 EDT

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and call an election this coming Sunday. We don't know yet what day Canadians will be casting their ballots, but we do know the campaign period must be at least 37 days or no more than 51. It means the race will officially get underway just two weeks after Carney replaced Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister. First it was the United States, now it's China. As of today, Canada is in a trade war with the world's two largest economies. Beijing made its move at midnight implementing stiff retaliatory tariffs on Canadian seafood and Canadian agriculture products.

Lisa Shing reports. It's devastating to our bottom line. Andre Harp, chair of the Canadian Canola Growers Association, says he's watched the value of the crop he grows drop since November. The uncertainty of it, we can't survive with that. In effect now, China's 100 percent tariffs on Canadian canola oil and peas and 25 percent on seafood and pork. A tit for tat after Canada followed the US, slapping corresponding tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles and steel and aluminum last fall.

So Harp is calling on the federal government to drop the EV tax, saying there may be some room to negotiate since canola seed was spared from this round of tariffs, the majority of which goes to China. It feels like I'm sitting on a park bench between two elephants. Farmers say the federal government bolstering a loan program isn't good enough. It hasn't responded to CBC News about whether it would consider taking off the EV tariff. Lisa Sheng, CBC News, Toronto. A new report says the number of local news outlets in Canada continues to decline.

And the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is saying it means there are currently more than two million Canadians living in a postal code with just one or no local news outlets. The authors of the study say the end result is a growing number of Canadians now relying on often unreliable social media feeds to fill the void. With the United States serving as mediator, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is fine-tuning his proposals for a ceasefire agreement with Russia. This as the war rages on. Briar Stewart has the latest. This is the sound of a massive attack launched on the central Ukrainian city of Kropovnitsky.

Local officials say residential houses were damaged and at least 10 people were wounded. And this morning in Russia, a local state of emergency was declared in the Suradov region after a Ukrainian drone attack left an airfield on fire. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky says his team is currently drawing up a list of facilities that they would like included in a partial ceasefire, not just energy infrastructure, which Russia says it would support, but also rail lines and ports. The White House said US President Donald Trump

has discussed possible American ownership of Ukraine's nuclear power plants. But Zelensky said they only talked about the Zaporizhzhia facility, which Russia has occupied since the early days of the war. Briar Stewart, CBC News, London. Now to the United States.

Educational opportunity is not government waste. It's something that is very central to what makes America great. That is Jack Stanton, a high school principal in Michigan. He's commenting as the Trump administration is on the verge of closing the U.S. Education Department. President Donald Trump is expected to make it official this afternoon with an executive order. Technically, only Congress has the power to shut the department down, which means the

order is most likely headed for a legal challenge. The International Olympic Committee is electing a new president this hour. A winning candidate will become just the tenth president in the IOC's 131-year history. They will be given an eight-year mandate to, among other things, steer the Olympics on a smooth path toward the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles and oversee the selection of a host city for 2036. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.