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

Episode Date: March 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/21 at 00:00 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 Claude Fague. The government needs a strong and clear mandate. CBC News has confirmed Mark Carney will seek that mandate

by calling a federal election Sunday, and it may be held as soon as April 28th. Carney declined to give details during a trip to Edmonton. The Prime Minister was there announcing help for Canadians trying to buy their first home. My new government will eliminate the GST for first-time home buyers on all new and substantially renovated homes under a million dollars. This is a big deal. government will eliminate the GST for first-time home buyers on all new and

substantially renovated homes under a million dollars. This is a big deal. This can provide up to $50,000 in savings for families entering the housing market. Alberta Premier Daniel Smith presented demands to Kearney during their first meeting this morning. Some of them included guaranteeing Alberta full access to unfettered oil and gas corridors to the north east and west, ending the prohibition on single-use plastics and more. Ranala Anchan reports. In a public statement, Smith says she brought forward concerns about wildfire management and oil sales. She says, I made it clear that

Albertans will no longer tolerate the way we've been treated by the federal liberals over the past 10 years. Carney also addressed the list of demands Smith brought to him. It's about building out the energy infrastructure more broadly here in Alberta, which I would add would include projects such as the pathways. It's about building energy corridors and trade corridors including potentially up from here through to Nunavut so we have additional deep water ports and opportunities there. Renali Unchian, CBC News, Edmonton.

Chandra Arya has been told by the Liberal Party he won't be able to run in the upcoming federal election. Aria, who was also denied from running for the leadership of the party, posted on X that the party informed him that his nomination to run in the riding of Nepean had been revoked. The party claims in light of new information received by the Greenlight Committee, the recommendation was made to revoke Aas' nomination. He had served in the peon riding since 2015. Tariffs are making waves across Canada once again today. China has slapped tariffs of

$3.7 billion worth of Canadian goods, including 100% tariffs on some canola products. Aaron Collins brings us reaction from farmers. On the still frozen prairie east of Airdrie, Alberta, seeding time is just a spring thaw away. That fact has farmers like Ian Chitwood prepping for another season of tight margins. This year foreign policy is top of mind too. So that's the second biggest market. That Chinese tariff, a response to Canada

following the US's lead on trade last fall, slapping tariffs on Chinese EVs, steel, and aluminum. It's not getting the attention it deserves. The canola industry, I mean, it's as big as the auto industry. China imports about $5 billion in canola products from Canada every year. Most of that is seed, for now not

impacted by today's tariffs. For its part, the federal government says in a statement to CBC that it's committed to protecting Canadian workers and supporting farmers. Canada's canola farms the front line of a trade war on two fronts. Aaron Collins, CBC News, near Airdrie, Alberta. The UN has named 2025 as the year of the glacier in an attempt to bring attention to the importance of the world's ice fields and the threat posed to them by climate change. Glacier is a crucial part of the world's global ecosystem as the ice stores the winter

snow and gradually releases it in spring and summer. The UN has warned that unless action is taken, many glaciers will not survive this century, putting hundreds of millions of people at risk of drought, water shortages and flooding. Sulagna Mishra is from the World Meteorological Organization. So when there are a lot of floods, for example, happening because of melting of glaciers,

the livelihoods are changed. People tend to migrate from one place to another. So it's, when you ask me how many people are actually impacted, it's really everyone. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.