The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/22 at 08:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 22, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/22 at 08:00 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 Kate Rutherford. Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced a relief package for workers and companies hurt by the ongoing trade war. In order to support Canadian workers, we will temporarily waive the one week employment insurance waiting period.

So in other words, if people are displaced because of the tariff situation, they immediately can receive unemployment insurance. As well as promising to make it easier to receive EI, Carney says the government will allow companies to defer corporate income tax payments and set up new funding bodies to help struggling businesses. All of this ahead of expected new U.S. tariffs that were originally deferred and now set to be announced by Donald Trump on April 2nd and on the eve of a federal election announcement expected to be made tomorrow. To London now. A welcome sound at Heathrow Airport.

Planes taking off and landing at Europe's busiest airport. The airport confirming this morning that it is back up and running at full capacity. After a fire at a nearby power grid Thursday night cut power to the airport and thousands of nearby homes, forcing a complete shutdown. The airport also says priority is being given to flights within Europe to land first.

Around 200,000 travelers were affected by the shutdown. An RCMP-led investigation into a human smuggling ring has unearthed a wider international network, and it's linked to the deaths of nine people in 2023 on a US smuggling run. CBC's Jorge Barrera reports on what police have now found and why it worries them. This is the soundtrack to a video advertising a forged Canadian passport. CBC News obtained this video and showed it to Kelly Sundberg, a former border officer. These are incredibly sophisticated. Sundberg is now a criminology professor in Calgary.

This is incredibly impressive. In the video, the passport under a a UV light, reveals the hidden security images. It's then scanned with a cell phone, and the screen flashes the ID printed on the document. These are security features found in passports issued between 2013 and 2023. This video was found on a phone seized from Montreal man Thessan Garrison-Rasaya, now facing charges for allegedly running a human smuggling organization. RCMP investigators concluded this network poses a national security threat. Jorge Brera, CBC News, Ottawa. Canada's oldest retailer has court permission to start liquidating the company's assets, although the Hudson's 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 center 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. And finally the statue of Edmonton Oilers great the great one Wayne Gretzky was vandalized with feces. Two visiting hockey fans told CBC News Friday they wanted to take a picture of Gretzky's statue when they noticed the face was covered in feces. Lauren Thurston of BC says he thought people had more class. Gretzky has recently drawn the ire of many in Canada for his public support of US President Donald Trump. The statue, first unveiled in 1989, stands outside Roger's place.

Arena staff eventually cleaned off the statue. That's The World This Hour. I'm Kate Rutherford.