The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/24 at 17:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/24 at 17:00 EDT

The world we live in isn't perfect. This is all wrong. I say put mental health first. But it doesn't get any better on its own. I stand before you as a concerned citizen. That's why we talk to activists about how they do what they do and what inspires them to keep going. Because we're all about change.

Listen to stories that give us all hope on all about change wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world is our. I'm Tom Harrington. It is the first full day of the federal election campaign and both the conservatives and liberals are promising income tax cuts. Conservative leader Pierre Poliev says he will find government efficiencies to fund them. He made the announcement in Brampton, Ontario. JP Tasker was there.

This is a tax cut that will put Canada first. The Conservative leader is pitching a new tax cut and a bid to win over voters. Pierre Polyev wants to slash the lowest tax bracket from 15 percent to 12.75. It would save nearly everybody who pays income tax some money. A worker earning $55,000 a year would keep an extra $900 if this goes ahead. This is a tax cut for everybody who has ever got up early in the morning and worked hard to build our country. It would cost the federal treasury some $14 billion a year.

Poliev says he'll slash spending elsewhere to pay for it. And we will cut back on foreign aid to bring our money home to this country. Liberal leader Mark Carney has also announced what he's calling a middle-class tax cut, but it's smaller. JP Tasker, CBC News, Brampton, Ontario. The Liberal leader says he hasn't spoken with Donald Trump, but Mark Carney thinks the president's

likely waiting for the outcome of Canada's federal election before calling the winner. I'm available for a call, but, you know, we're going to talk on our terms as a sovereign country, not as what he pretends we are, and on a comprehensive deal. Carney spoke during a campaign stop in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, a symbolic location in Canada-U.S. relations. He's also promising a cut, as you heard, to the lowest tax bracket. At 1%, his proposal is lower than the one promised by the Conservatives. Carney says his cut is designed to offset the lost carbon tax rebate payments.

In this election the question is who's going to build homes you can actually afford? The New Democrats are promising they will build affordable housing only on federal land. Jagmeet Singh made the announcement on an empty plot of federal land in Montreal. He is promising 100,000 new rent controlled homes by the year 2035. Newfoundland and Labrador's Liberal Party will elect its next leader and new Premier on May 3rd, but we already know his name will be John. The Leadership Election Committee says the nomination period is closed and two candidates are in.

They are Liberal MHAs, John Hogan and John Abbott. The leadership race was prompted by the resignation of Premier Andrew Furey after almost five years in office. To other news now. Egypt is floating a new proposal aimed at restoring the cease-firing Gaza, broken a week ago. The peace seems very distant for Gaza residents living under regular Israeli bombardment once more. Vila Marks reports. Um Samir al-Saifi cries out, mourning her son Samir killed overnight in an airstrike

that demolished their family's four-storey home. Others dig desperately through the rubble of damaged buildings, carrying out the bodies of the dead or searching for their belongings. Palestinian health officials say Israeli strikes across Gaza killed another 60 Palestinians, with more than 700 killed since attacks resumed last week. Among them mostly women and children, as well as several senior Hamas security and political officials. Nursing director Mohamed Saka says the targets included a ward on the Nasser hospital.

MOHAMED SAKA, N?ASA Director of Health and Health Services, Gaza The situation now is really catastrophic, and we didn't expect that they will target also the department inside a medical institution. Israel says it restarted its assault to force the release of the remaining hostages. Villain Mark, CBC News, London. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is blaming the country's opposition for instigating protests across the country. The Turkish government says it has arrested more than 1,100 people in the past five days.

The demonstrations broke out after Istanbul's popular mayor was arrested and later jailed on corruption charges. Mayor Ekrem Imamolu is seen as Erdogan's main opponent in the upcoming election. Erdogan says the opposition cannot be trusted to run a buffet, let alone the country. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tom Harrington. Thanks for listening.