The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/25 at 05:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 25, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/25 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. New Democrats are on a campaign swing through southern Ontario today.

The Liberals dominate the electoral map in Toronto and as David Thurton reports the NDP is trying to win more seats in the region. If you believe in universal public health care, vote NDP. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh trying to rev up a small crowd in a campaign office in West Toronto. He's hoping to build momentum in a place that's critical for forming government. If you believe in building a country for the middle class, for the working class and not the billionaires, vote NDP! Singh has visited downtown Toronto ridings like this many times and has come away empty. This time the campaign hopes his persistence and a slate of candidates

well known in their community could make a difference. Petilla Capocce was elected to the Ontario legislature as an NDP MPP. Now she's running federally in Tiagon Parkdale High Park. Today the campaign moves to Hamilton, another city where the party lost ground to the Liberals in the last election. David Thurton, CBC News, Toronto. Saskatchewan has long been a conservative stronghold in federal elections, but the province's most isolated riding is shaping up to be its closest race. After the redrawing of electoral boundaries, it's home to a majority indigenous population and many isolated communities.

Alexander Silberman reports. At the small grocery store in Stony Rapids, Saskatchewan, an isolated northern community, the high costs at the cash register are top of mind this election. The riding of Desnethe-Missinipi-Churchill River is shaping up to be a three-way race after the redrawing of electoral boundaries. Daniel Westlake is a political scientist at the University of Saskatchewan. If the riding had the boundaries it had now is that it would have voted NDP in 2019 and liberal in 2021. The issues in this riding are unique to this part of the province. With few roads,

the region is heavily reliant on costly air travel. It's also difficult to see a doctor. Mitchell Thirassi says that's his biggest concern as a voter. Because there's so many doctors that come and go, like they're on the rotation and you don't have like a regular doctor here. This federal election, voters in the north hope their voices will make a difference. Alexander Silberman, CBC News, Stony Rapids, Saskatchewan. A Russian diplomat says talks between Russia and the United States on Ukraine were challenging but useful.

The two sides met Monday in Saudi Arabia, and the Russian news agency TASS says the Russian side describes the meeting as intense. Peter Dickinson is editor of the Atlantic Council's Ukraine Alert website. The Americans in particular are very keen to demonstrate this process, this peace initiative is moving forward. They'll be looking to try and get some sort of confidence building steps in place.

It doesn't seem at this point that there's been any major breakthroughs. The White House now confirms that top Trump administration officials mistakenly disclosed war plans in a group chat message to a journalist. The Atlantic first reported the story Monday saying that U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth revealed plans to attack Houthi rebels in Yemen. The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was invited to a group chat on the Signal Messaging app, where he read about the impending attack. Earlier Monday,

Hegsath tried to discredit Goldberg. You're talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who's made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again to include the, I don't know, the hoaxes of Russia, Russia, Russia, or the fine people on both sides hoax, or suckers and losers hoax. So this is the guy that peddles in garbage. Hegseth is a former Fox News host. A nurse is recovering from her injuries after being attacked at Vancouver General Hospital earlier this month, the nurse was strangled unconscious by a patient. And that is your World This Hour.

For CBC News, I'm Neal Herland.