The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/21 at 02:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/21 at 02:00 EDT

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I'm Claude Faye. 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. Now this is a big deal.

This can provide up to $50,000 in savings for families entering the housing market. Meanwhile Alberta Premier Daniel Smith presented demands to Carney 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 a single use of plastics as well. Rinali 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 Unchun, 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leadership of the party, posted on X that the party informed him that his nomination to run in the riding of Nepean had been revoked.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 Aria's nomination. He had served in the Nepean riding since 2015. 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. At least 120 flights that were bound for the airport were diverted. An estimated 1,350 flights were scheduled to land and take off from Heathrow Friday, impacting about 230,000 travelers. President Donald Trump has signed another executive order, this one to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, vowing to return the money it controls to individual states. He accused the department of breathtaking failures.

We're going to be returning education very simply back to the states where it belongs, and this is a very popular thing to do but much more importantly it's a common-sense thing to do and it's going to work. Absolutely it's going to work. Many Republicans blame the department for what they say is poor performance in schools but Democrats have called the plan closures reckless partly because the federal Department has a key role in supporting low-income and disabled children. 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. The UN has warned that unless action is taken, many will not survive this century, putting hundreds of millions of people at risk. Sulangna 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. ¶¶