The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/22 at 02:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 22, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/22 at 02:00 EDT

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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 in early May. Conservative leader Pierre Paliév continued his pre-election campaigning. Paliév 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 Paulyev 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. Paulyev unveiling a suite of policies aimed at boosting apprenticeships with unions taking a lead role, all while breaking down interprovincial 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.

Canada's oldest retailer has court permission to start liquidating the company's assets, although the Hudson Bay says it hopes to save six stores. Paula 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. London's Heathrow Airport confirms it is now fully operational there being Saturday morning after a complete shutdown of one of the largest and busiest airports on Thursday. A shutdown caused by a nearby fire that knocked out power and certainly caused plenty of travel mayhem. Chris Brown reports from London. Parked planes and empty skies over London's Heathrow airport punctuated a day of chaos for global air travel. Heathrow is Europe's busiest airport and yet it was brought to a standstill by a fire in a single electrical substation that somehow knocked out the backup supply too.

Air Canada cancelled 16 flights and turned around six planes mid-flight, including Dave Pope's. And when we got back to Toronto, it was a bit chaotic. Nobody knew really what was going on, where to go. He was eventually rebooked to fly Saturday and so was Steve Masters, who after hours on hold caught a flight back to Montreal. I got through to somebody who sounded like he was having a much worse day than me who was able to get me rebooked onto a flight tomorrow. Authorities say the fire is believed to be non-suspicious.

By Saturday morning Heathrow says all scheduled flights should be back in the air. Chris Brown, CBC News, London. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.