The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/05 at 13:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 5, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/05 at 13:00 EDT

It's on. A federal election is here and party leaders are racing around Canada to convince you to give them your vote. We're seeing a lot of spin, a lot of promises and a lot of accusations swirling around. And we are here to filter through the noise. I'm Catherine Cullen, host of The House. And every Saturday we want to slow you down and make sure you're getting the big picture and deep context and everything you need to make politics make sense. Because democracy is a conversation and we're here for it. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Gina Louise Phillips. Liberal leader Mark Carney says a key component to building a stronger, more self-reliant Canadian economy

is having enough workers to build it. Right now, we simply don't have enough workers. Almost 250,000 construction workers are expected to retire over the course of the next seven years, creating a shortfall on current plans before our ambitious plans, a shortfall of over 60,000 workers. The jobs will be there. The careers will be there. We need to make sure the skilled workers are there too.

To that end, Carney says the Liberals will provide up to $8,000 in grants to registered apprentices, $20 million for college training programs, and they'll increase the labour mobility tax deduction for workers willing to move to where the jobs are. The Conservatives have made similar pledges. The NDP leader made a big promise today. Jagmeet Singh said a new democratic government would ensure every Canadian has a family doctor, and he'd do it by the end of this decade.

David Thurton has more. How we can get those physicians taking care of patients, how we can fix their health care in the face of all this uncertainty, we want to give people hope. Jagmeet Singh says a new democrat government would commit to providing everyone a family doctor by 2030, not just access to a nurse practitioner or another form of primary care, but to a physician. It's a challenging goal at a time when millions of Canadians don't have a GP and more are losing access. Singh says his government would eliminate the problem by the end of this decade.

And so to achieve that here's our plan. First of all, Singh promised to open up more residency positions for foreign-trained doctors so they can practice here to train more local doctors from rural and underserved areas. And the NDP is offering a 1 percent top-up in the Canada health transfer to provinces and territories that sign up. David Thurton, CBC News, St. John's. Medical recruiters in Canada say there has been a big surge in interest from American doctors considering a move to Canada since the election of US President Donald Trump. Nova Scotia Health says

there are 27 American doctors in serious negotiations to move there and Manitoba's Health Minister says the province's recruiters are talking to a dozen American physicians and nearly 50 nurses. The Red Crescent has released cell phone video of a march attack in which 15 aid workers were killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. Verified as authentic by Reuters, it contradicts the Israeli version of events. Dominic Velaitis has more. Filmed inside a moving vehicle, the video appears to show a clearly marked convoy of

ambulances and a fire truck travelling at dawn with their red lights flashing. After stopping by a vehicle that had veered off the road, two rescue workers and another man can be seen running towards it before gunfire erupts. The red crescent, which released the video, said it was obtained from the phone of one of the 15 people killed. The footage appears to contradict the IDF's initial claims the vehicles were travelling without their emergency lights or headlights on. Factors, it said, which made the convoys advance appear suspicious.

Israel, which is investigating the incident, says the video will be thoroughly examined. Dominic Velaitis for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. The US South and Midwest are bracing for another round of torrential rain and flash flooding this weekend, while they're still cleaning up from a wave of severe storms during the week. And on the ice... weekend, while they're still cleaning up from a wave of severe storms during the week. And on the ice… Here's a pass, Ovechkin. Scores!

The grade eights stand side by side with the grade one! Alexander Ovechkin of the Washington capitals scored his 894th goal last night, tying Wayne Gretzky for the league's all-time goal-scoring record. Ovechkin will get a chance to break that record Sunday against the New York Islanders. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.