The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/21 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/21 at 16:00 EDT

What do you see when you look around? Lively cities, growing neighborhoods, things that connect us. For those into skilled trades, it's a world they helped create. Discover more than 300 careers, paid apprenticeships, and the unmatched feeling of saying, I made that. Learn more at Canada.ca slash skilled trades. A message from the Government of Canada. From CBC News, the world this hour.

I'm Dave Seglunds. Operations are slowly resuming at one of the world's busiest airports. Heathrow in London was shut down when a fire at a substation caused a busiest airports. Heathrow in London was shut down when a fire at a substation caused a power outage. It cancelled or diverted more than 1,300 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 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 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 Stor, 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. Chollis says she hopes that Americans who've been negatively affected by the Trump tariffs will reach out to their politicians and demand an end to the trade war.

Conservative leader Pierre Pauliev 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 U.S. economy. A case of mistaken identity has left a Winnipeg man traumatized and looking for answers after police mistakenly targeted his home. Cameron McIntosh has the story. So you can see the hole here. Two sheets of plywood cover what was once Saeed Avami's sliding glass door. I heard two or three explosions. Stun grenades that shattered the glass thrown into his condo by police, executing a warrant. Problem is, they had the wrong address.

Four days later, I get a call from an officer. They told that, oh, we are sorry. Police told him they were going after a drug dealer and made a mistake. Avami says the incident has left him traumatized. Now he's going back and forth with police and his insurance company over expenses. More than 45 days later, nothing is fixed. I don't know how long it will take and how much we have to suffer. Winnipeg police say the incident is under review.

Cameron McIntosh, CBC News, Winnipeg police say the incident is under review. Cameron McIntosh, CBC News, Winnipeg. Quebec's Court of Appeal has upheld prison sentences for two junior hockey players convicted of sexually assaulting a teenage girl. Massimo Siciliano was sentenced to 30 months. Nicholas Degg was ordered to serve 32 months in prison. Their lawyers had argued they should serve community service, but the judges disagreed. And that is The World This

Hour for CBC News. I'm Dave Seglunds.