The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/21 at 13:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/21 at 13:00 EDT

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Prime Minister Mark Carney will host his first First Ministers meeting in Ottawa this afternoon. As Kate McKenna tells us, U.S. and Chinese tariffs, as well as inter-provincial trade, are expected to dominate the talks. It's about getting things done. Prime Minister Mark Carney says a key topic will be removing inter-provincial trade barriers. We want the skilled workers to be able, if they so decide, to immediately go to another part of Canada and work there without any red tape or hassle.

This has become a hot issue since Donald Trump's tariff threats. The federal government says making it easier to work, run businesses and trade between provinces could meaningfully strengthen the Canadian economy, making it more resilient no matter what the president does. We are very excited to open up an Atlantic Canada free trade zone. New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt wrote to the other Atlantic Premiers yesterday, calling on them to join her and open up trade between the four provinces. It's the latest push on a file set to be discussed by all the Premiers,

as Canada's closest trading partner, the U.S., has become a lot less dependable. Kate McKenna, CBC News, Ottawa. the U.S. has become a lot less dependable. Kate McKenna, CBC News, Ottawa. Conservative leader Pierre Poliev has announced a plan to boost training and jobs in the skilled trades if he becomes Prime Minister. Conservatives will provide funds to union training halls for machines, bricks, mortar, walls, floors, all of the above, with the goal of training 350,000 apprentices and other trades workers over the next five years.

Speaking at a news conference in Ottawa, Poliev says his plan will bring back apprenticeship grants and create a special class of employment insurance that will make it easier for trades people to get support. Poliev says a key goal of the plan is to make Canada less reliant on the US economy. Hamas has fired multiple rockets at Tel Aviv, days after Israel resumed its military campaign in Gaza. This has the global community watches with mounting concern. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. I renew my appeal for respect of the ceasefire, for unimpeded humanitarian access to all areas

of Gaza, and for the immediate and unconditional release of the hostages. Health officials in Gaza say since Tuesday almost 600 people have been killed, with more than a thousand injured. Heathrow Airport, one of the world's busiest, is slowly resuming operations. This after a power outage forced the closure of the entire complex. A fire at a substation serving the airport interrupted service. More than 1,300 flights, including some to and from Canada, were either grounded or diverted, frustrating thousands of passengers.

I called my airline, I'm flying Air Canada, but I was on hold for over an hour. I gave up. I've been looking at flights out of other airports in London, but there are not as many options because I think people are scooping them up. One airline analyst called today's disruption, quote, a contained version of 9-11. Heathrow officials say the airport will operate at a reduced capacity for some time, slowly ramping the service back up.

It could take days to clear the backlog of cancelled and delayed flights. In Sudan's capital, Khartoum, those are soldiers with the Sudanese army celebrating inside the presidential palace. It had been held by paramilitary forces for almost two years. The palace was the seat of government before the war. Today's developments follow months of steady advances by the military. However, the rebel Rapid Support Forces or RSF say it has

launched a counteroffensive and insists the battle for the palace is far from over. The Hudson's Bay Company is back in court today. The owners say they have a plan that would save six of the Bay's department stores in the Greater Montreal and Toronto areas, but it still wants permission to liquidate the rest, and to begin that process as soon as Monday. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Dave Seglunds.