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

Episode Date: April 6, 2025

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

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From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Claude Fague. To Ukraine. Firefighters spray water on a building in Kyiv. It's one of several fires that broke out after an overnight Russian drone strike. At least one person was killed and three others were injured. Another four people were hurt in a strike on the southern region of Mikolayev. Ukrainian officials say they shot down 13 of 23 missiles and 40 of more than 100 drones. The strikes come a day after at least 19 people were killed in an attack on the Ukrainian

city of Krivyi Rih. The federal election campaign is entering its third week, and party leaders are busy making promises. 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 eight thousand dollars in grants to registered apprentices, twenty million dollars for college training programs, and they'll increase the labor mobility tax deduction for workers willing to move to where the jobs are. The Conservatives have made similar pledges. Meanwhile, Conservative leader Pierre Paulyev is tackling the issue of red tape.

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. For every dollar in administrative costs for businesses, two dollars would have to be cut elsewhere. Meanwhile, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is focused on health care. He says a new democratic government would ensure every Canadian has a family doctor and he would 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% top-up in the Canada Health Transfer to provinces and territories that sign up. David Thurton, CBC News, St. John's. Ottawa police say a lockdown on Parliament Hill has ended after a man barricaded himself inside the East Block yesterday. In a social media post

officers say criminal investigation is ongoing and an update will be provided later this morning. That man is now in custody. In Lisbon, demonstrators gathered to voice their opposition to US President Donald Trump. This is part of the hands-off rallies happening around the world. Freedom is at stake in the United States and for the whole world with what Donald Trump is doing. And we need to stand up, we need to raise our voices, we need to be heard, we need to make sure that everybody knows that we will not accept this type of injustice.

There were 1200 planned rallies in the U.S. yesterday across every state. Other countries that joined included Canada, Portugal, Germany, India and the U.K. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.