The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/04 at 04:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/04 at 04:00 EDT

The world we live in isn't perfect. This is all wrong. I say put mental health first. But it doesn't get any better on its own. I stand before you as a concerned citizen. That's why we talk to activists about how they do what they do and what inspires them to keep going. Because we're all about change.

Listen to stories that give us all hope on all about change wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Mike Miles. Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Jolie says this morning Americans are getting the message that Donald Trump's tariffs are going to cost them. She's telling European allies to keep reminding the US of that, and she adds Trump's tariffs are going to cost them. She's telling European allies to keep reminding the U.S. of that, and she adds Trump's actions have damaged the Canada-U.S. relationship.

When you treat your client, your best client, the way we've been treated, well, of course, it means that you want fundamentally to change the way you're operating. What we've said is we take stock of what the U.S. has done, and at the same time, we know that the relationship will never be the same again. Jolie says the counter-terrorism posed yesterday by Prime Minister Mark Carney are aimed at getting a good trade deal, adding there also needs to be a new agreement on security.

She's in Brussels for a meeting with her counterparts from NATO nations. The major party leaders are starting today off campaigning in Quebec. Its 78 seats makes that province a key battleground. They were grilled on the issues during a Radio-Canada special Thursday night. Rafi Boujoukanyan has more. Liberal leader Mark Carney, grading himself a 6 out of 10 on his spoken French, but asked what he thinks represents Quebecers,

he's less specific. Supply management, he says, then adds, it's a nation, it's a distinct society. His bloc Québécois rival Yves-François Blanchet picks up on that... There's no one left. Nobody calls Quebec a distinct society anymore, he says. It is its own nation.

Conservative leader Pierre Polièvre may have provided Blanchet some ammunition. He's a member of the GRC. He has a turban. Saying an RCMP officer assigned to protecting his family wears a turban, and he's against the controversial Law 21 which bans public sector workers in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols. The performance is on Thursday evening by each leader, a preview of the campaign's French language debate in a little less than two weeks.

Rafi Boudjoukani on CBC News, Montreal. The deadline is nearing when many Canadians crossing the border for a month or longer will have to register with the U.S. government. But as Sophia Harris reports, a new lawsuit could change that plan. We're like 60 to 80 years old. What are we going to do wrong in the United States? David Fine is perplexed by the Trump administration's upcoming registration requirement for travelers. It affects Canadian snowbirds like Fine, who's wintering in Texas. Starting April 11th, certain foreign nationals staying in the U.S. for 30 days or longer will have to fill out a lengthy registration form online.

Those who don't comply could be fined, even imprisoned. Several U.S. immigration advocacy groups are suing the Trump administration to try to quash the registration requirement. We feel strongly that this rule was issued in an improper and illegal way. Michelle LaPoint is legal director at the American Immigration Council. She says the administration failed to seek the required public input on a rule that will affect millions of people. On Tuesday, the plaintiffs will ask the court to block the registration rule before its

April 11th rollout. Sophia Harris, CBC News, Vancouver. The death toll from last week's earthquake in Myanmar is now more than 3,100. The head of the ruling military junta took part today in a regional summit in Bangkok looking for help carrying out rescue and relief operations. The magnitude 7.7 quake is one of the strongest in a century. South Korea's Constitutional Court has removed President Yoon Suk-yul from office. I declare, post impeachment, unanimously, the claimee, the president, Yoon Suk-yul, is officially impeached.

The country's parliament had impeached Yoon following his attempt last year to impose martial law. The leader of South Korea's ruling party has put out an official apology, while Yoon himself says he's sorry for not living up to his country's expectations. It now has to hold an election within two months to elect a new president. Acting leader Prime Minister Han Deok-soo says he will work to make sure there's a smooth transition. That is your World This Hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts.

We're updated every hour, seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles.