The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/04 at 10:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/04 at 10:00 EDT

When Eric and Lyle Menendez murdered their parents in 1989, most people assumed they did it for the money. But over the course of their trials, the Menendez brothers told a very different story. Now, after spending most of their lives behind bars, new developments in the case could lead to the brothers getting out. This week on Crime Story, I speak with Robert Rand, the journalist who's covered this story longer than anyone else. Find Crime Story wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, it's the World This Hour.

I'm Joe Cummings. We go first to Liberal leader Mark Carney. He is campaigning today in Montreal with a promise to strengthen Canadian public broadcasting. Canada's identity and institutions are under attack by foreign interference and instead of defending them Pierre-Paul Liev is following President Trump's lead and taking aim at our institutions like CBC Radio Canada. Carney says if elected, the Liberal Party will give the public broadcaster an immediate $150

million funding boost, and he will ensure long-term stable funding by enshrining it in law. Carney also says the Liberal government will develop a new governance plan for CBC Radio Canada to improve and streamline accountability. Still with the Liberals, they have lost another candidate. Rod Loyola was running in Edmonton Gateway, but he's been taken off the ballot after the National Post discovered a video where he appears to be praising Hezbollah and Hamas at an anti-NATO protest.

Both are listed as terrorist groups here in Canada. It's the second candidate the Liberals have lost since the election was called. The Conservatives have lost four. The freefall on the markets continues this morning in the wake of the Trump administration's global tariff campaign. In Toronto, the S&P TSX is down by more than 2.5%. It's the same in New York with the Dow Jones, as well the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq are both more than 3% in the red.

Yesterday's across-the-board losses wipe more than $2 trillion off the books. The latest employment numbers are out this morning for both Canada and the United States, and they show Canada's labor market took a major hit last month, losing 33,000 jobs. This while more than 200,000 jobs were added to the American economy. Peter Armstrong has more. Two very different economies, two very different job markets. In the US, jobs came in way above what economists had been expecting, and it paints the picture of a robust American economy.

Unemployment is at 4.2%, very low. The question is whether this will stop the bleeding on stock markets. And the problem here is no one seems to know what to make of these numbers. So uncertainty basically overpowers any of the good news embedded in this jobs report. Here in Canada, a very different picture, employment fell 33,000, the unemployment rate rose to 6.7% and that weakening comes ahead of the American tariff impact. So less cushion in an already weak economy as it's facing the potential devastation of a trade war. Peter Armstrong, CBC News, Toronto.

Incidentally, China has now formally responded to the tariffs imposed on its exports this week by the Trump administration, Beijing putting a 34% levy on all U.S. products effective later next week. It's also issuing trade sanctions and exports on 27 individual U.S. companies. A legal challenge has been mounted

to a new American border regulation that's forcing Canadians with plans to stay in the U.S. companies. A legal challenge has been mounted to a new American border regulation that's forcing Canadians with plans to stay in the U.S. for a month or longer to formally register with the U.S. government. Sophia Harris has the details. 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 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. Sofia Harris, CBC News, Vancouver. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.