The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/21 at 22:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 22, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/21 at 22:00 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 Claude Fague. 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 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 early May. Meanwhile, Carney says his government will cancel the proposed hike in the capital gains inclusion rate in recognition of what he calls the vital role builders and small businesses play in Canada. Carney says he's focused on incentivizing builders and entrepreneurs to take risks. Conservative leader Pierre Paulyev

continued his pre-election campaigning. Paulyev was in Ottawa on Friday, where he made a pitch to workers and tradespeople about boosting training and employment. Tom Perry reports. The only way to get a change is by putting Canada first, by electing a new Conservative government. At a union hall in the west end of Ottawa, Conservative leader Pierre Paulyiev positioning himself and his party as the true voice of working Canadians.

Mark Carney will never stand up for the working people. He will only stand up for the millionaire and billionaire global elites. Poliev unveiling a suite of policies aimed at boosting apprenticeships with unions taking a lead role, all while breaking down inter-provincial barriers to make it easier for skilled tradespeople to work anywhere in Canada. It's called boots, not suits. All this before the election campaign has even officially kicked off. The fight for votes about to get even more intense.

Tom Perry, CBC News, Ottawa. And Ottawa is rolling out an advertising campaign in 12 key red states in the US. Foreign Affairs Minister, Melanie Joly, 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. Yemen's Houthis are claiming responsibility for early morning attacks in Israel. A spokesperson for the Iran-backed militant group says they carried out a ballistic missile strike on Israel's Bangoran Airport in Tel Aviv early Saturday.

They also claim to have launched drone attacks targeting U.S. naval assets in the region, including the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the Red Sea. But so far, there has been no response from either Israel or the U.S. Britain's transport minister says the power outage that shut down London's Heathrow Airport last night was unprecedented at outside the airport's control. Heidi Alexander says there was 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 working to get passengers whose flights were disrupted where they need to go and they hope to be running on a normal schedule by tomorrow. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.