The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/05 at 18:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 5, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/05 at 18:00 EDT

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Hill is under a lockdown as police deal with a man barricaded inside. The building was safely evacuated and roads in the area have been blocked while police continue to deal with the individual. We will continue to watch for updates on this story. 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. Carney says the Liberals will provide up to $8,000 in grants to registered apprentices, $20 million for college training programs, and they will increase the labor mobility tax deduction for workers willing to move to where the jobs are. The Conservatives have made similar pledges. Conservative leader Pierre Polyaev tackled the issue of red tape today. He says there are almost 150,000 rules and regulations on small businesses

in Canada. I'm announcing that a Conservative government will cut red tape by 25% over the next two years. We'll impose a two-for-one rule, which means every new regulation or rule will have to be matched with eliminating two existing ones. Poliev would also introduce a two-for-one rule on costs. For every dollar in administrative costs for businesses, two dollars would have to be cut elsewhere. And he would order the Auditor General to do an annual audit of rules and regulations.

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 our 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% top-up in the Canada Health Transfer to provinces and territories that sign up. David Thurton, CBC News, St. John's. 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. Dominic Velaitis has more. Filmed inside a moving vehicle, the video appears to show a clearly marked convoy of ambulances and a fire truck traveling 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 convoy's advance appear suspicious. Israel, which is investigating the incident, says the video will be thoroughly examined. Dominic Velaitis for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.