The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/21 at 01:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/21 at 01:00 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. 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. Mark Carney, Canada's new Prime Minister, lacing up his skates and 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 U.S. 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, short in 150 ridings. Rafi Boudja-Canyon 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 where 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 Bellin 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 writings. Rafi Bajikan, YonCBC News, Ottawa. One of the busiest airports in the world has been forced to shut down operations due to a power outage. Heathrow

Airport has announced it will be closed all day Friday after losing its power due to a fire at a nearby electrical substation in West London. The fire also knocked out power to thousands of homes in the area. Ellis Taylor is an aviation expert and says the impact to the airport and travelers will be significant. There are going to be tens of thousands of passengers affected. Our Sirium schedules data shows that there's over 660 flights scheduled to operate in and out of Heathrow today, so they are going to have to go somewhere else. We're already starting to see some flights from the U.S. particularly turning around,

others diverting to places like Paris or Manchester or Gatwick, and really it's gonna be quite the disruption. At least 120 flights in fact that were bound for the airport had been diverted to other airports. Heathrow handles about 1,300 flights a day. Another execution has been carried out in the US. A man from Florida who was convicted of killing an eight-year-old girl and her grandmother over three decades ago was

executed by lethal injection at a Florida state prison south of Jacksonville. 63-year-old Edward James pleaded guilty to the killing of Tony Nooner and her 58-year-old grandmother Betty Dick in September of 1993. Three other executions were carried out in the U.S. this week. Argentina's largest trade union is called for a 24-hour general strike next month. It follows recent clashes between police and protesters at a demonstration in support of pensioners. The Secretary of the General Confederation of Labor said strikers would demand an emergency

rise in pensions and an end to other austerity measures. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.