The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/21 at 19:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/21 at 19:00 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 Seglands. Prime Minister Mark Carney met today in Ottawa with Canada's premiers. Their meeting focused on how the federal provincial and territorial governments are going to deal with Chinese and US tariffs. It's a time where we want to take risk. We have to take risks, 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. Emerging from today's session Ontario's premier Doug Ford called for unity. Ford says Canada needs to forge new economic partnerships in response to US tariffs imposed by Donald Trump. When we're under attack by one person in economic war, all the rules have changed.

We have to get to market on everything. We have to build those big infrastructure projects, start shipping our goods all around the world. We can't be so reliant on one country, the United States. We need to diversify our trade and make sure that we partner up with other countries around the world. Today marked Prime Minister Carney's first and likely only meeting with the premiers before a federal election call expected on Sunday. Well, 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. Quebec's Court of Appeal has upheld prison sentences for two junior hockey players convicted of sexually assaulting a teenage girl.

Massimo Siciliana was sentenced to 30 months. Nicholas Degue was ordered to serve 32 months in prison. Their lawyers had argued for community service, but the judges disagreed. Local officials in Stansted, Quebec say the US is limiting Canadians access to an historic library that physically straddles the border. The Haskell Free Library and Opera House has long been considered a symbol of harmony, allowing visitors from both Canada and the U.S. without a formal border check. But as Paula Diane Perez reports, that is quickly changing. Built in 1904, the library sits right on the border between Stansted, Quebec, and Herbe

Line, Vermont. Its main entrance is on the American side, but for years Canadians could enter without inspection. The U.S. government says as of Monday Canadians will need to show a library card. And starting on October 1st, they'll have to go through an authorized port of entry first. The changes come nearly two months after U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security visited the library, and according to staff called the Canadian side the 51st state. nearly two months after U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security visited the library and according to staff called the Canadian site the 51st state. A spokesperson from U.S. Customs and Border Protection says the area has seen a continued rise in what it calls illicit

cross-border activity. But the library's president, Sylvie Boudreau, says most people use the facilities in good faith. Do you think we're going to go across the border to have all the kids that are coming to see a movie or join an activity? No. Moudreau says there are now crowdfunding to open an entrance from the Canadian side. Paula Diane-Perez, CBC News, Stansted. And that is your World This Hour. For news anytime visit our website cbcnews.ca.

For CBC News, I'm Dave Seglunds.