The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/21 at 20:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 22, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/21 at 20:00 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. Provincial and territorial leaders

have wrapped up their meeting in Ottawa with Prime Minister Mark Carney. We are in a crisis, not of our own making, but that is the case now. Carney says today's talks focused on removing inter-provincial trade barriers and finding new markets for Canadian exports. All of this in light of the trade war launched by the Trump administration in the United States. What we can control are the types of issues we talked about today as First Ministers and what's behind that. That investment, that building the Canadian economy, that will give us far more than we could lose from American trade actions. 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, the 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, Polyev says his plan will bring back apprenticeship grants and create a special class of employment insurance that will make it easier for tradespeople to get support. Polyev says a key goal of the plan that will make it easier for tradespeople to get support.

Poliev says a key goal of the plan is to make Canada less reliant on the US economy. Canada's oldest company is shutting down all but six of its stores. The moves toward liquidation, starting on Monday, Hudson's Bay Company appeared in Ontario's Superior Court where a judge today 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 outlets in the Greater Toronto and Montreal areas. Flights are taking off once again from London's Heathrow Airport, but backlogs are expected for days after 1,300 flights were either cancelled or diverted after the airport

was forced to shut down. A fire in a nearby electrical substation caused a power outage, forcing the closure. 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 and forced millions out of their homes and caused widespread famine. Sasha Petsursic has the details. 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's 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 counter-attack. 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. In Istanbul, protesters clashed with police at a rally tonight. It's over the detention of Istanbul's mayor, Ikrem Imamoglu. Tens of thousands of people have held protests across Turkey over the detention of Istanbul's mayor Ikrem İmamoğlu. Tens of thousands of people have held protests across Turkey over the past three days

despite warnings from the country's president. İmamoğlu was detained on Wednesday accused of graft and aiding a terrorist group. The main opposition party in Turkey has condemned the move as politically motivated. The Turkish court is expected to rule on whether to formally arrest the mayor this weekend. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Dave Seglunds.