The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/21 at 17:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/21 at 17:00 EDT

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I'm Dave Seglitz. Prime Minister Mark Carney is hosting Canada's premieres in Ottawa this hour as the federal, provincial and territorial governments grapple with the effects of Chinese and U.S. tariffs. It's a time where we want to take risk. We have to take risk, we have to make investments and we have to do things that we hadn't imagined possible before at a speed that we haven't moved before.

Carney is expected to ask Governor General Mary Simon to dissolve parliament on Sunday, triggering an election at the end of April or in early May. Meanwhile a new opinion poll finds 41% of Canadians think US economic aggression is the biggest threat the Canada faces. Slightly more than a third said they would seriously consider moving to a new country if the US

annexed Canada. Canada's oldest retailer has court permission to start liquidating the company's assets. An Ontario court today approved a plan by Hudson Bay Company to close all but six of its retail stores across the country. Paul DuHatschek has the latest. The Bay says the news about its financial troubles has led to a flurry of sales. Shoppers flocking to the retailer to pick up a Bay blanket before stores close. That means the company has enough financial wiggle room to keep six stores open, all of them

in the Greater Toronto or Greater Montreal areas. But there's still lots of uncertainty ahead, including for the Bay's roughly 9,000 workers, many of whom will likely be out of a job. Kevin Grell works for the Bay.com distribution centre in Toronto. I will be 62 in May and my plan was to work till 65 and retire, but it looks like that's not going to happen. The six stores identified by the Bay could still close if a restructuring solution isn't found soon.

Paula Duhaczek, CBC News, Calgary. Britain's Transport Minister says the power outage that shut down London's Heathrow Airport last night was unprecedented and outside of the airport's control. Heidi Alexander says there is no evidence of foul play but investigators are keeping an open mind. The London Fire Brigade are working with the Met Police at pace to understand what the cause of the fire was. This was clearly a substation that

is very close to a critical piece of national infrastructure. So it's imperative that we've got the right people working on that investigation to identify the cause as soon as possible. Heathrow has now resumed operations and is working to get passengers whose flights were disrupted. Where they need to go, they hope to be running on a normal schedule by tomorrow. After almost two years of vicious fighting, Sudan's military has defeated rebel forces

and recaptured the Republican palace in Khartoum. But it's unlikely to end the war that has killed more than 28,000 people, forced millions from their homes, and caused widespread famine. Sasa Petrissac has the latest. Sudanese army soldiers cheer in the grand, but shattered halls of Khartoum's presidential palace, a key prize in the country's civil

war. The capital has been in the hands of the rebel Rapid Support Forces, the RSF, since fighting started two years ago. Retaking the palace is both strategic and symbolic. A heroic success that crushed the RSF, an army spokesman declared on TV. But the RSF is fighting back, killing a number of army soldiers in a counterattack. And battles continue in other parts of the capital and the country, where the army has been gaining ground.

In a conflict where both sides have been accused of war crimes against civilians, leaving millions displaced and starving. Sasha Petrusik, CBC News, Toronto. Ottawa signed a pharmacare deal with the Yukon government. The $9.5 million agreement will improve access to a number of drugs, contraceptives and devices coming into effect January 2026. And that is Your World This Hour. From CBC News, I'm Dave Seglunds.