The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/26 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 26, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/26 at 16:00 EDT

It's not just you. Canadian politics really did get a little dramatic this year. And even people who don't normally follow or trying to figure out what the heck is going on. I'm Catherine Cullen, host of The House, and I started a new Election Weekly with two friends and fellow political nerds. I'm Daniel Thibault, bringing you the Quebec point de vue. I'm Jason Markazoff, bringing the takes and stakes from the West. Together, we are House Party, an elections weekly for everyone. We answer one big burning question every Wednesday. Find us in the House's feed wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Tom Harrington. Donald Trump is announcing his

tariffs on automobile imports this hour. The move could have grave implications for the sector here and the economy as a whole. Liberal leader Mark Carney is promising support for autoworkers who could suffer the effects of Trump's trade action. Tom Perry has more on his proposal. Canada will be there for our auto workers. With the Ambassador Bridge as a backdrop, one of the main crossing points for goods into and out of the US, Mark Carney pledged a re-elected Liberal government would protect Canada's auto sector from Trump tariffs.

They're a little volatile. They're a little up and down, a little bit on and off, hot and cold with respect to the relationship. Carney is promising a $2 billion fund to support auto workers affected by U.S. tariffs. He says he'll work with industry to manufacture more auto parts from start to finish in Canada so they're not hit with tariffs every time they cross the border. Carney says his government would make it a priority to buy Canadian-made vehicles for federal agencies to try to protect Canadian jobs while making it easier to collect EI in the event of layoffs. Tom Perry, CBC News, Windsor. Pierpauliev is going after votes from a coveted part of the electorate, Canadian seniors. Older Canadians get out and vote in much larger numbers than younger people.

The Conservative leader is offering them help to make ends meet. A Conservative government will put Canada first by allowing our seniors to earn up to $34,000 tax-free. This will save a working senior up to $1,300. They can spend on a nice summer vacation or maybe spoil the grandkids just a little bit more. Paulie have also says his government would allow Canadians to leave savings in their RRSP for an additional two years and promise to keep the retirement age at 65.

The New Democrats are pledging to increase the basic personal exemption and to remove the GST from essential items. The fourth victim of a Winnipeg serial killer has been identified. Until today, she was only known as Buffalo Woman. Police believe her remains are at a Winnipeg area landfill. Manitoba's premier is promising her family the authorities will start a search. Riley Lechuk reports. It's hard. It's hard.

Chief Raymond Flett of St. Teresa Pointe and the Chinu Nation, reacting to news the previously unidentified victim of a Winnipeg serial killer has been identified as Ashley Christine Shingoose, a woman from his community. She was last seen near a Winnipeg homeless shelter in March 2022. Investigators now believe her remains were taken to Winnipeg's Brady Road landfill that same month. In a statement read by Flett, Ashley's mother Teresa says a search for her daughter must start soon. It's been a long time waiting. I need to bring her home. Until now, Shingus was known by the community as Mashkadeh, Bishakeh, Ikwe, Iban or Buffalo Woman.

Police say her identity was confirmed on Monday through DNA. Premier Wab Kinew says discussions for a search are underway. I cannot promise you that we will bring her home, but I can promise you that we are going to try. Riley Lechuk, CBC News, Winnipeg. To Washington now. There were no sources, methods, locations or war plans that were shared. Members of President Donald Trump's national security team returned to Capitol Hill today.

They're doing damage control as new details emerge about an embarrassing security breach. The Atlantic magazine has published a full transcript of the group chat where one of its journalists was included by accident. It includes more details of high level U.S. officials discussing military strikes in Yemen. The White House insists none of the shared information constituted war plans. Brazil's Supreme Court has cleared a path for charges to be laid against former president Jair Bolsonaro. Prosecutors allege he plotted to stay in office after his election defeat in 2022. And they say he hatched a plan to poison his successor,

Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva, and kill a Supreme Court judge. It could have convicted the former president to face decades in prison. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tom Harrington. Thanks for listening.