The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/06 at 05:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/06 at 05:00 EDT

Every language is a note in the symphony of our heritage. Together, they create a harmony that cannot be silenced. Discover your voice on the new APTN Languages TV channel. From CBC News, the world is sour. I'm Neil Kumar. Most of U.S. President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs are now in effect. The 10% across the board tariffs kicked in on Saturday,

targeting almost all U.S. imports, except for those from Canada or Mexico. As Chris Reyes tells us, many of the countries targeted are talking about retaliation. We've been building a rules-based trade system for 70 years, and it's all being torn down for no good reason. Gene Grossman is a professor of international economics at Princeton University. As U.S. customs and border protection begin collecting President Donald Trump's new 10% tariffs on imports from close to 100 countries, the bigger tariffs on China and the EU will

take effect next week. China has already retaliated with its own 34% tariff on US goods. From Europe, a rally cry to unite and retaliate with their own tariffs. In a post on social media, Trump called on Americans to hang tough, promising that the end result will bring back jobs and businesses to the US. Trump says he's open to negotiating with countries hit by tariffs, but he's also made it clear that they're here to stay for the rest of his term. Chris Reyes, CBC News, New York. Conservative leader, Pierre Poliev, is campaigning in British Columbia this weekend. On Saturday,

Poliev spoke to a raucous crowd of supporters at a campaign event in Penticton. Brady Strachan reports. at a campaign event in Penticton. Brady Strachan reports. Penticton, who's ready for Canada? Supporters packed a large industrial warehouse to capacity with a few hundred people forced to listen to the campaign rally from outside. To ask some taxes. Conservative party leader Pierre Poliev spoke for an hour on topics such as the economy,

crime, the price of housing and standing up to the United States amidst a tariff war. Donald Trump doesn't get to pick our next prime minister, Canadians do and they want to put Canada first for a change. Pauliev is the first federal party leader to campaign in the Okanagan this election, a fact not lost on supporters who came to the rally like John Ullman. We need someone like Pierre stands for the people you can tell by the size of the crowds that come to see them that's what matters not the polls that's all phony baloney. Poliev takes his campaign further west on Sunday making stops in BC's lower mainland.

Brady Strachan, CBC News, Penticton, British Columbia. Tens of thousands of people around the world took to the streets to be part of so-called hands-off rallies on Saturday. These are protests denouncing the Trump administration's policies, and as Philip Lee Shannon tells us, this includes Americans who live here in Canada. Across from the U.S. Consulate in Toronto, Julie Buchanan of Democrats Abroad Canada says like many here she worries about her family back home.

I don't want them to lose their rights so despite the fact that I don't live there it's always home and I'm gonna do everything I can. She's concerned about legislation that could make it more difficult for Americans to vote from overseas. But from tariffs to devastating cuts to USAID demonstrators here oppose many of Trump's initiatives. Alexa Fleishman, a third generation Canadian, joined these expat Americans in protest. You have to say something. You have to stick up. You have to fight. But George Ann Burke of Republicans Overseas Canada, a former New York Democrat who now lives in Toronto, says she approves of Trump's tough love. I understand that the only thing that the Democrats have is protest.

They're about Americans protesting American government policies which favour Americans. Philip LeShannok, CBC News, Toronto. And repairs to Ontario's power grid continue this weekend. More than 100,000 customers are still in the dark after back-to-back freezing rainstorms last week. 3,900 Ontario crews are getting assistance from crews across Canada. Russia has launched an overnight airstrike on the Ukraine capital Kyiv. Mayor Vitaly Klitschko says explosions have taken place in the city and air defences are working.

Several injuries have been reported. Ukraine's air defence units say they have shot down 13 of 23 missiles and 40 of 109 drones. And that is your World is Sour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Kumar.