The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/21 at 23:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 22, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/21 at 23:00 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. Prime Minister Mark Carney says he wants to accelerate how quickly major infrastructure projects

are built and approved in Canada. He also wants to accelerate how quickly major infrastructure projects are built and approved in Canada. He also wants to remove mobility restrictions for any federally regulated professions to allow people to move across provinces more easily. Rafi Boudja-Kanian has more. Together we can give ourselves more than any foreign government can ever take away. Prime Minister Mark Carney on the heels of his first meeting with the country's provincial and territorial premiers, wanting to show they're taking action. He says they came to an agreement the federal government will no longer double up when it

comes to signing off on major energy projects that already have the nod from a province or territory. We are creating a one-window approval process. He also intends to allow more people to move across the country while keeping jobs they're qualified to do. We are going to remove any labour mobility restrictions for federally regulated professions. Carney also intends to get rid of all restrictions for free trade

within Canada by July 1st, but these are all promises he can only keep if he wins the next federal election, which sources tell CBC News will be called on Sunday. Rafi B. G. Kani on CBC News, Ottawa. Emerging from today's meeting, Ontario Premier Doug Ford called for unity among provincial and territorial leaders. Ford says Canada needs to forge new economic partnerships in response to U.S. 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. A new opinion poll finds 41 percent of Canadians think U.S. economic aggression is the biggest threat that Canada faces.

And slightly more than a third said they would seriously consider moving to a new country if the US annexed Canada. The Léger poll surveyed 1,500 adults last week. It found older Canadians were much more worried than younger ones. Quebec's Court of Appeal has upheld prison sentences for two junior hockey players convicted for sexually assaulting a teenage girl. Massimo Siciliano was sentenced to 30 months and Nicholas Dagg was ordered to serve 32 months in prison.

Their lawyers had argued they should serve community service, but the justices disagreed. A young woman is speaking out after she was secretly recorded at a mall in London, Ontario. The video was posted on a TikTok account that seems to celebrate men who denigrate women. In the video, the man approaches her asking if she has a boyfriend and mocks her when she says yes. Comments on the video call the man a king and thank him for allegedly humbling women. Kaitlin Mendez, a sociology professor at Western University says the videos and comments feed into negative stereotypes about women. That doesn't feel good.

It kind of enables this form of misogyny that I think is really bubbling out there in society and so it could potentially give us this like really negative outlet. The owner of the TikTok account did not respond to CBC's request for comment. Boxer George Foreman has passed away. It is over, it is over. It is over in the second round. George Foreman is the heavyweight champion of the world. His death was confirmed by his family

in an online statement. The cause of death was not released. Foreman was a two-time world heavyweight champion, Olympic gold medalist, entrepreneur, minister, and author. Among his most famous fights was beating a then undefeated Joe Frazier in 1973 and the famous Rumble in the Jungle in 1974 when he lost to Muhammad Ali.

Foreman retired at the age of 48 with 76 victories, famous rumble in the jungle in 1974 when he lost to Muhammad Ali. Foreman retired at the age of 48 with 76 victories, including 68 knockouts. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fade.