The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/21 at 14:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/21 at 14:00 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 Dave Seglunds. One of the world's busiest airports is slowly resuming operations. Heathrow in London was shut down

when a fire at a substation caused a power outage. It also cancelled or diverted more than 1300 flights. Briar Stewart has the latest from London. Airport officials say that flights at Heathrow Airport are now resuming after the terminals were shut all day because of a widespread power outage that began with a fire at a substation last night. The National Grid system has reworked the configuration and power has been restored to Heathrow. And this is Europe's busiest airport.

Nearly 300,000 passengers were expected to go in and out of here today. So when that fire happened and they shut the airport, there really was a ripple effect around the world. You had a number of flights that had to be diverted, passengers have been stranded and now they all have to be put back on planes and rerouted. Their priority is to deal with the stranded passengers, repositioning aircraft, but they expect that by tomorrow on Saturday it will be back to a full operation. But we should expect to see some of the ripple effects of the travel disruption here play out over a few days. Briar Stewart, CBC News, London. Ottawa is rolling out an advertising campaign in 12 key red states in the US. Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Jolie

appeared on CNN today to explain why. We will be having huge billboards along the key highways in Florida, in Nevada, in Georgia, 12 different states. We're doing that because we think that we need to send a message to the American people for them to understand what's at stake. This is really going to hurt their livelihoods and have an impact on their wallets. Jolie says she hopes that Americans who've been negatively affected by the Trump tariffs will reach out to their senators, congressmen and governors and demand an end to the trade war. Mark Carney says his government will cancel the proposed hike in the capital gains inclusion rate

in recognition of what he calls the vital role that builders and small businesses play in Canada. Carney says he's focused on incentivizing them to take risks and rewarding them when they succeed. Canada's oldest company has been granted court approval to liquidate all but six of its stores starting on Monday. The Hudson's Bay Company appeared in Ontario's Superior Court where a judge approved a plan for it to begin selling off inventory and fixtures at the bulk of its 80 stores, but

the Bay says it will try to save six in the Greater Toronto and Montreal areas. In an unprecedented move, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fired the head of his country's security agency, Shin Bet. He blames Ronan Barr for the intelligence failures that led to the October 7th Hamas attacks. But as Christo Gomansing tells us, many Israelis aren't buying it. Demonstrators in central Jerusalem galvanized against a historic move by their government. Someone who is actually being investigated cannot fire their investigator.

Rowy Sassen says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is removing all of the gatekeepers collapsing Israel's democracy. Staff inside Netanyahu's office are under investigation by Shin Bet for allegedly accepting money while in Qatar for hostage negotiations. The money is possibly linked to helping improve Qatar's image. The agency also highlighted failures in government policies before October 7 while accepting it did not heed early warnings. Ronan Barr said he only needs the trust of Israeli citizens. That his firing, to take effect next month or when a replacement is found, will make

Israel less secure. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, Jerusalem. Quebec's Court of Appeal has upheld prison sentences for two junior hockey players convicted for sexually assaulting a teenage girl. Massimo Siciliano was sentenced to 30 months. Nicolas Degle was ordered to serve 32 months in prison. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Dave Seglunds.