The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/20 at 23:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/20 at 23:00 EDT

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Claude Fague. Canada's new prime minister won't confirm it just yet, but Mark Carney is expected to meet the governor general this weekend and trigger a federal election at a time when the Conservatives lead in the polls seems to have evaporated. Tom Perry has more. hitting the ice at an Edmonton Oilers practice, getting ready to hit the trail in a federal election. We're offering a positive vision for the country, a vision of action. Not all that long ago, this election looked like a surefire win for the Conservatives.

That began to change when Justin Trudeau stepped down as Prime Minister and when US President Donald Trump began slapping tariffs on Canada and threatening its sovereignty. Eric Grenier analyzes polls at the writ.ca. It's one of the most unprecedented shifts in public opinion we've seen in modern history. Grenier says right now it's the Liberals on track for victory with the NDP fighting for political survival but polls can change or even be wrong. Very soon it will all come down to the campaign. Tom Perry, CBC News, Ottawa. And with an election happening in the next month or two, all of the federal parties are

now in a race to find enough candidates. Trailing the pack is the Liberal Party, which is short in 150 ridings. Rafi Boudja-Kanian has more. Thank you for coming home to Edmonton today. Mayor of Edmonton, Amarjeet Sohi welcoming Mark Carney to the city where the Prime Minister grew up. Thank you, Mr. Le Maire, Amarjeet. Carney fueling speculation he may run here as an MP himself. Still unclear whether he's doing that, but he is recruiting some local star power. Mayor Sohi is a former MP representing

the city under Justin Trudeau. On politics, you are who you need to be. There's also former CTV and CBC television host Evan Solomon. There's also former Quebec finance minister Carlos Letao and former CBC radio host Anthony Germain. It would have been much, much harder to recruit the star candidates just a couple of months ago. Daniel Belin teaches political science at McGill University. He points out the Liberals are in a very different place now than they were under Justin Trudeau. The Liberals are behind the other parties in finding enough candidates to run in all

343 ridings. Rafi Bajikan, YonCBC News, Ottawa. There are now some answers about that Delta plane that crashed and overturned at Toronto's Pearson Airport last month. All 76 passengers and four crew members survived but 21 people suffered injuries, some of them serious. The CBC's Nicole Williams has more. The unforgettable moment the plane came crashing down catching fire skidding along the runway and flipping over. Ever since, there have been questions swirling about how this could have gone so horribly

wrong. Investigators conducted several approaches and landings. The Transportation Safety Board has now released some initial findings, including that the plane was descending at a rate which set off an alert in the flight's final seconds, and upon touchdown, the right landing gear fractured. The TSB says it's still too early to draw any conclusions, but one thing the report makes sure to mention, the experience of the crew. The TSB says these are complex investigations and generally take about 600 days to complete.

Nicole Williams, CBC News, Ottawa. The U.S. Transportation Safety Board is calling for the inspection of 68 bridges in 19 states there to be examined for the risk of catastrophic collapse from a collision by ship or other vessel. The major recommendation is coming out of the investigation in the last year's collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. Six people were killed when a cargo ship hit the bridge plunging a large section into the harbor. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked European Union leaders for $5.5 billion

for artillery shells to use in Ukraine's fight against Russia. Addressing a security meeting in Brussels, he said the support was needed as soon as possible. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.