The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/25 at 18:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 25, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/25 at 18:00 EDT

This is Michael Bublé, host of the Junos, Canada's biggest night in music. And trust me, this lineup is going to be everything. With performances by Akela, Baby No Money, Josh Ross, Nemesis, Snoddy Nose Rez Kids, a special final performance by Sum 41, and Michael Bublé. Now that's what I call a party. Don't miss the Junos, live March 30th at 8 Eastern on CBC and CBC Gem. And you're all invited. 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 Stefanovic reports. 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 Polyev's 2022 leadership race. I find it beyond baffling.

Liberal leader Mark Carney and NDP leader Jagmeet Singh say Polyev 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's campaign team says Poliev is just trying to distract from his own problem. 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 defense 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. Three people are dead after an avalanche in southeastern BC. It happened yesterday afternoon on the east side of Kootenay Lake, a high-risk area. Brady Strachan reports. RCMP Staff Sergeant Chris Clark says the avalanche came down just before 1 in the afternoon in the Clute Creek watershed. Clark says two groups of heliskeers were waiting in a staging area when the slide hit. He says one of the groups was swept away into a tree line. Efforts to recover the men were initiated. All four were recovered. Sadly, three were found deceased.

Clark says the victims are a 53-year-old guide from Caslow along with two skiers. A fourth skier, a 40-year-old man from Nelson, was taken to hospital with critical injuries. The slide occurred in an area currently listed as high for avalanche danger, according to Avalanche Canada. It's always good to be aware of avalanche conditions and go prepared. We just want everybody to be safe and to enjoy the backcountry safe. This year there have been two other avalanche deaths in BC, a backcountry skier and a snowmobiler in separate incidents. Brady Strachan, CBC News, Kelowna.

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 official 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 among the U.S. vice president, the secretaries of defense and state, secret group chat on highly sensitive war plans using an unsecure platform. It included discussions among the U.S. Vice President, the Secretaries of Defense and State and a dozen more officials about strikes on 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. Ukraine and Russia say they have made separate agreements with the U.S. to ensure safe navigation in the Black Sea.

The deal would allow Ukraine to safely export its grain to the rest of the world. The White House says in return, Washington would help restore Russia's access to international agricultural and fertilizer markets. The Kremlin says that should happen before the maritime truce goes into effect. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tom Harrington. Thanks for listening.