The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/25 at 09:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 25, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/25 at 09:00 EDT

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The federal election campaign is only just underway, but already it appears a trend is developing when it comes to which block of voters the party leaders see as being potentially the most valuable. Janice McGregor reports. Whether leaders vowing to protect industries from terror threats or pitching measures to help folks stay on their feet in anxious times. The most valuable voters so far in this election seem to be blue-collar workers. They're front and center again today. Liberal leader Mark Carney wakes up in Halifax this morning. His pitch to workers so far is anchored

in his overall campaign message of his hands being the safest at the wheel as relations with the US in particular remain stormy. Conservative leader Pierre Poliev, on the other hand, is going to be out in Vaughan, north of Toronto this morning, amplifying people who work in construction and manufacturing as exactly the kind of hardworking builders that deserve a break from their government to get ahead. Jogmeet Singh's day also starts in Toronto before swinging into the hotly contested Hamilton

area this evening. Yesterday, a second major union, CUPE, joined the steelworkers last week in endorsing the NDP campaign. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. Now to northern Saskatchewan, where the redrawing of one electoral boundary means that a riding that's long been a conservative stronghold could now potentially go either to the New Democrats or the Liberals. Alexander Zilberman explains. 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-Misunipi-Churchill 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 Thirassee 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. With no end in sight to the measles outbreak across the country, it's being suggested that a tracking tool from the COVID-19 pandemic might be helpful in slowing the spread. Jennifer LaGrasse has more. We really don't always have a great handle on how much measles virus is circulating in our population.

But we could if only Canada was tracking the highly contagious respiratory virus in wastewater, says Eric Arts. He's a microbiology professor at London Ontario's Western University. Across Canada, there's been more than 500 reported measles cases this year. But ARTS says that number is likely higher. We could identify where the measles virus might be spreading and then put in public health measures. What's devastating is that this is preventable.

Dr. Caroline Quash is a pediatric infectious disease specialist. Surveys show majority of Canadian parents want their children vaccinated. She says about three to five percent are against all types of vaccines. Though health officials say wastewater surveillance could better address this group, the tool has been scaled back across the country. The Public Health Agency of Canada's online tracker doesn't currently include measles. Jennifer LaGrasse, CBC News, Toronto. Newfoundland novelist Michael Crummey has made the shortlist for the prestigious Dublin

Literary Award. Crummey is in the running for his novel, The Adversary. It's set in an isolated community on Newfoundland's northern coast. The Dublin Award, one of Europe's most lucrative literary prizes, is worth more than $130,000 Canadian. This year's winner will be announced May 22nd. And that is A World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.