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

Episode Date: March 23, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/22 at 21:00 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 Riley Lechuk. We now know which riding Prime Minister Mark Carney will be running in for the upcoming federal election.

Sources with knowledge of that decision have told CBC News and Radio Canada that Carney will be running in the Ottawa area riding of Nepean. That riding had been held by Liberal MP Chandra Arya since 2015. The Liberal Party announced earlier this week that it had revoked Arya's nomination and removed him as a candidate in the riding. Meantime sources have told the CBC that April 28th will be election day in this country. Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to meet with Governor General Mary Simon at noon Eastern tomorrow and ask her to dissolve parliament. Despite the election, the trade war with the United States continues.

Speaking in Montreal, Ford affairs minister Melanie Jolie says she, her fellow ministers and the Prime Minister will do their jobs at the same time. We'll be there for April 2nd when President Trump is coming up with his new tariffs and there's an important meeting at NATO on April 3rd and 4th and I'll be there notwithstanding that I'm also a candidate. Carney has said it's crucial that the government have a strong mandate from voters as it goes into battle. CBC Radio will have special coverage on Sunday when the election is called.

It will be hosted by Your World Tonight's Susan Bonner and Pia Chattopadhyay of the Sunday Magazine along with Catherine Cullen of The House. You can catch it at 11 a.m. Eastern, 8 a.m. Pacific on CBC Radio 1 and on the CBC Listen app. Now ahead of the dissolvement, the Liberals announced the expansion of the dental care program today. Starting in May, Canadians between 18 and 64 can start applying for the Canadian dental care plan. Kamal Khhera is the federal minister of health. This cohort is the largest group to enroll in our dental care plan. In total, we're expecting an additional 4.5 million Canadians

to be eligible for dental coverage. Khera says in total, roughly 9 million uninsured Canadians will now be eligible for dental coverage. Those who apply in May could receive coverage as early as June the 1st. In the U.S., the Trump administration revoked temporary legal status from more than half a million people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Until now, they were in the U.S. legally under a Biden-era program. And as Chris Reyes reports, it's Trump's latest controversial clampdown on migrants.

In a town in Venezuela, weeping family members are pleading with the Trump administration to reconsider their loved ones' deportation. What they're doing with these boys is unfair, said one mother, who claims her son, who was deported from the U.S., along with more than 200 others, is not a gang member. The Trump administration invoked an 18th century law, the Alien Enemies Act, to justify the deportations earlier this month, claiming those rounded up and sent to El Salvador were all members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. A court order has challenged the expulsions.

President Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, defended his boss's orders. So the president took his authority to do executive action and this right thing to do. TDA is an enemy of the United States. Chris Reyes, CBC News, New York. An avalanche Canada has issued a special public warning for the central Rockies, an area that includes several national parks. Parks Canada safety specialist Lisa Paulson warns people may not be aware of how unstable the snowpack is until it's too late.

That's what's alarming for this weekend is it might not be as obvious, but we are getting daily reports of remote triggering, large avalanches, like this person doesn't necessarily have to be on the slope. They can be tens or even in some cases this week, a hundred meters away, even on lower angle terrain and trigger terrain overhead. The morning remains in effect through until Monday. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Raleigh Lechuk.