The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/24 at 05:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/24 at 05:00 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. Liberal leader Mark Carney had to contend with protesters at his first campaign rally in Newfoundland last night. We got a meeting!

More than 50 fishermen tried to block the lobby at the St. John's Convention Center. They're upset with 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. The protesters eventually moved after the federal fisheries minister agreed to meet them. Conservative leader Pierre Polyaev will be in the Greater Toronto area today

trying to make inroads in the region. As Kate McKenna reports, the Conservatives held their first rally last night. Bring it home! Bring it home! Conservative leader Pierre Polyev's campaign kickoff included a rally in North York, packed to the brim with eager voters. Look at these incredible hard-working patriotic people with people like these we can overcome any obstacle we can bring home the country we knew and loved we can stand up to the American and put Canada first.

The line to enter the rally extended outside and snaked around the venue. Party staff couldn't let everyone in. The room hit maximum capacity. Some people were turned away and given free t-shirts. This is the fella that will reinstate the Canada we know and love. The rally was held in the Toronto area. The region has been a bastion of liberal support. But conservatives want to make gains.

They found success last year when they turned a red Toronto seat blue in a by-election for the first time in 30 years. Kate McKenna, CBC News, Toronto. Canadian election ads are looking a little different this time from celebrity endorsements to playing up family ties. Yvette Brent has more on the campaign commercials. What are the two seasons in Toronto? Winter and construction? Wow, we really are Canadian. It only took this ad featuring Liberal leader Mark Carney and comedian Mike Myers a day to reach 10 million views. UBC political scientist Stuart Press says the Liberal message is clear.

It's all invoking this idea that this is Team Canada. It didn't appeal to Conservative voter Al Schliegel. It's important to me, but it's not genuine. But it's a common theme. Pierre Pauliev's slogan is Canada first, and his wife voices some of his ads. His children know him in French, Spanish, and English as Papa. Proust says it's all part of Pauliev building his image. So introducing himself and his family is a kind of a first family vibe, if you like,

to show that this is a family like any other. NDP leader Jugmeet Singh jumped into a TikTok trend in this video viewed by 4 million people. I retime my turban at least once a day. Evette Brand, CBC News, Vancouver. We're following some new developments in South Korea's political crisis. The South Korean Constitution constitutional court has overturned the impeachment of acting president Han Deok-soo.

Frank Smith reports from Seoul. The country's constitutional court said presiding judges in the trial of Han Deok-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 Yun Suk-yol. But he was later impeached himself. Members of the National Assembly accused him of delaying the ruling on Yun 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 Yoon'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.