The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/24 at 01:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/24 at 01:00 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 Neil Herland. Canada's federal election is officially underway with a shifting political landscape.

Just a few months ago, polls put the Conservatives way out ahead. But as JP Tasker reports, the election of a new Liberal leader and the return of a U.S. president have changed everything. There is so much more to do to secure Canada. The trade war election is officially underway. And new Liberal leader Mark Carney says he needs a mandate from the people as Canada stares down President Donald Trump, his tariffs and the 50 for state taunts. He wants to break us so America can own us.

We will not let that happen. So when I say they should be a state, I mean that. While he's been endorsed by Trump ally and friend Elon Musk, conservative leader Pierre Poliev says he won't bend to the US administration, pointing out even Trump himself says he prefers to deal with the liberal. Our nation is more divided than ever before because the liberal, post-national, borderless and globalist ideology has weakened our nation. According to the CBC poll tracker, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh starts this election in a distant

third place. Some progressives have parked their vote with the Liberals instead. Election Day itself is on April 28th. JP Tasker, CBC News, Ottawa. And Conservative leader Pierre Poliev wrapped up his first major campaign rally tonight in Toronto. Who's ready to act some taxes? Who's ready to act some taxes? Who's ready to build some homes?

Hey, who's ready to bring home the Canadian promise? Liberal leader Mark Carney made his first campaign stop in St. John's tonight, where he was met by more than 50 fish harvesters protesting against major cuts to the snow crab harvest. Carney mentioned them during his speech. I want to acknowledge the harvesters here tonight outside came to make make their voice heard. And I want to underscore, like the minister, I'm here to listen. Some of the protesters tried to block the lobby at the St. John's Convention Center. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is in Montreal tonight, but earlier he launched his campaign in Ottawa

and he reminded his supporters what the NDP accomplished during a supply and confidence agreement with the liberal government. Even before Donald Trump started his greedy trade war, times were tough and we fought to make things better for you and your family. Paid sick days and laws to protect you at work, that was us. Dental care, dental care so you don't have to choose between living in pain and buying groceries. That was us. We're following some new developments in the South Korean political crisis.

South Korea's Constitutional Court has just overturned the impeachment of acting President Han Deok-soo. Judges are still deciding the separate impeachment case against President Yoon. Frank Smith reports from Seoul. In an announcement, the country's constitutional court said presiding judges in the trial of Han Duk-soo deemed there was insufficient evidence to uphold his impeachment. Han assumed the role of acting president in December following an impeachment vote against President Yoon Suk-yul, but he was later impeached himself.

Members of the National Assembly accused him of delaying the ruling on Yoon by refusing to appoint judges to the Constitutional Court. The Constitutional Court has yet to announce the fate of the president. That's expected to come later this week. Massive rallies for and against him have divided the streets of Seoul. Hundreds of thousands took to the streets of the Capitol over the weekend. Many people are frustrated over the dragged out case. It's the longest deliberation in the history of the Constitutional Court following a U.N.'s

disastrous martial law declaration in December. Frank Smith for CBC News, Seoul. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neal Herland.