The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/26 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 26, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/26 at 12:00 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, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. First to the federal election campaign and Liberal leader Mark Carney, he is in Windsor, Ontario today, a city on the front line of Canada's trade war with the United States.

Carney says the Liberals are committed to protecting Canadian workers affected by U.S. tariffs. We've already turned that commitment into action. To support workers, we have temporarily waived the one-week employment insurance waiting period. We've changed the rules so that workers don't have to waived the one-week employment insurance waiting period. We've changed the rules so the workers don't have to exhaust severance pay before collecting EI. We've made it easier to access EI and we've made it more generous. Karni is also promising to create a $2 billion fund to expand this supply chain for the Canadian auto sector. As for NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, he's in Hamilton, Ontario,

rolling out his party's plan to trim taxes. For the first $19,500 that someone earns, no tax on that. We want to take the GST permanently off of your monthly bills that are essential. So that would be your internet, your cell phone, your home heating, and take it off of daily necessities, like grab-and-go groceries. A GST promise includes lifting the tax from diapers and other baby related

products like strollers. Incidentally Green Party co-leader Jonathan Pedneau is also rolling out a tax reform proposal today. He's in Montreal. Conservative leader Pierre Polyev is flying to Quebec City with a new campaign announcement aimed at Canadian seniors. He's promising to keep the retirement age at 65 and to expand the tax boundaries for working seniors. The identity of an Indigenous woman murdered three years ago by a Winnipeg serial killer has now been established and will be made public later today. Up until now, she's only been known as Buffalo Woman.

She was one of four indigenous women murdered by Jeremy Skibitsky in 2022. Kara Wilson, the Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, will be among those attending today's announcement, along with Manitoba Premier Wab Kanu. A First Nation in Newfoundland and Labrador has put up barricades to stop drugs from being brought into the community. The First Nation says it's in the midst of an addiction crisis that needs urgent solutions. Andrea Maguire reports. Community safety officers are working long shifts at the entrance to Shahajit, watching for anyone who might possess illegal substances.

It's all part of an effort to curb drug use in the community. Resident Yvette Michelle calls the situation a crisis. I think everybody in this community is scared. And I think that it's not afraid of the drug dealers. I think they're afraid of losing their loved ones. Florence Milley co-organized the community actions this week. She says drug users are resorting to increasingly desperate measures.

There's prostitution, stealing belongings, belongings to their families, damaging people, fighting somebody just to get their fix. An RCMP officer for the area says police are committed to keeping drugs off the streets and building trust with residents. However, Milley says the community would benefit from a tribal police force controlled by leaders in Sharijit. Andrea McGuire, CBC News, Sharijit. Danish officials are responding with alarm to the news that US Vice President JD Vance will be

joining his wife on a visit this week to Greenland. Lars Christian Brask is a Danish MP and the country's deputy speaker. The amount of people and the people with stars on the shoulders that arrive in Greenland is sort of almost intimidating and to some extent a provocation and interference with the Danish and Greenlandic issues. Brask points out that Vance, in his role as a senior U.S. government official, was never formally invited to visit the Danish territory. All this follows ongoing musings from President Donald Trump about the U.S. taking over Greenland. Also on this week's visit will be White House National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. And that is The World This Hour.

For news anytime, go to our website, cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.