The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/25 at 14:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 25, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/25 at 14:00 EDT

Hey, it's me, Michael Buble. You hear that? That's the sound of the Junos, the biggest party in Canadian music. I'll be there hosting. Sum 41 will be rocking out on stage for the last time, plus a whole lineup of amazing performances. And guess what?

You're all invited. All bring the tux, you bring the snacks. Let's make it a night to remember. Don't miss the Junos, live from Vancouver, March 30th at 8 Eastern on CBC and CBC Jam. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Tom Harrington. Canada's spy watchdog says it believes agents of India helped organize support for Pierre Poliev's

conservative leadership bid. Now other federal party leaders on the campaign trail are responding to the revelation. Olivia Stefanovich reports. I won the leadership fair and square. Conservative leader Pierre Poliev responding to reports alleging the Canadian security intelligence service learned Indian proxies raised money and organized within the South Asian community for Poliev's 2022 leadership race. I find it beyond baffling. Liberal leader Mark Carney and NDP leader Jagmeet Singh say Poliev would have known the information if he got his national security clearance.

That to me disqualifies you. Sources say CSIS doesn't have any evidence that Poliev and his team were aware of the alleged efforts. In response, Poliev switched from defense to offense, accusing Carney of holding secret meetings with the Chinese central bank. How is he ever going to stand up to foreign interference? Carney has not yet responded to Poliev's allegation. Olivia Stefanovic, CBC News, Ottawa. The Liberal leader is promising to invest in the Canadian Armed Forces. Mark Carney says a re-elected Liberal government will fill the shortage of 14,000 military members

by modernizing recruiting. Campaigning in Halifax, Carney says defence spending has more than doubled over the last decade. But it's still not enough. We will expand the capabilities of the Navy with new submarines and additional heavy icebreakers to defend the North. We will deliver an unprecedented acceleration of investment in our armed forces so that we can defend every inch of our sovereign territory while helping to support and defend our allies abroad. Carney is also promising to expand the reach of the Canadian Coast Guard by integrating the federal agency with NATO's defense capabilities. To other news now, the RCMP say an avalanche killed three

heliskeiers yesterday in British Columbia. It happened just after midday near Kootenay Lake in southeast BC. The statement says four people were swept away by the snow. The search party tried to locate the skiers. Two people from BC and one from Idaho were eventually found dead. Another BC man was critically injured. The White House says Russia and Ukraine have agreed to ensure the safety of commercial shipping in the Black Sea.

The deal comes after both sides had talks with U.S. officials in Saudi Arabia. But questions remain about when the agreement takes effect. Broward Stewart reports. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky says the country has agreed to a deal to ensure the safe passage of commercial ships in the Black Sea. There are few details about the US brokered arrangement. The White House says the agreement would eliminate the use of force and prevent commercial vessels from being used for military purposes.

But Zelensky says it doesn't spell out what will happen if the limited ceasefire is broken. And it's not even clear when it will be implemented. The White House says it will help restore Russia's ability to sell its food and fertilizer products on world markets, but the Kremlin wants specific sanctions lifted before the deal is in place, including those on Russian ships involved in the export of food. It also wants a number of Russian banks and financial institutions reconnected to SWIFT, an international cross-border payment system. Briar Stewart, CBC News, London.

To Washington now. This was not only sloppy, it not only violated all procedures. American lives could have been lost. U.S. senators grilled top intelligence officials about an embarrassing security breach. A journalist was inadvertently included in a secret group chat on highly sensitive war plans using an unsecure platform. It included discussions between the US vice president and secretary of defense about strikes on the Yemen's Houthis. The White House insists no classified information was shared on the chat. President Donald Trump calls it a glitch and insists it was not a serious lapse. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tom

Harrington. Thanks for listening.