The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/06 at 20:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/06 at 20:00 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 this hour, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. We begin on the campaign trail. The NDP leader is expanding on his party's plans to help renters across the country.

Jagmeet Singh promises to bring in a bill of rights for renters along with national rent controls. David Thurton has more. There's not much left over. People are talking about how much their rent is costing them, how it takes up sometimes more than half of their income they're bringing in. And that is wrong. Jagmeet Singh in Halifax today talking about an issue that hits home for a lot of people,

especially in a riding the Democrats are trying to flip. Singh promised to turn on federal funding taps to municipalities and provinces that protect renters through things such as rent control as well as ending so-called rent evictions and demovictions and cracking down on landlords colluding to jack up rent, Singh says. We're not going to build affordable homes for those homes to just turn into unaffordable homes because there's no protections in place. Singh said the NDP would require provinces to enact laws that protect renters if they want to qualify for federal housing dollars.

David Thurton, CBC News, Halifax. Meanwhile, the Conservatives. New Conservative government will fund recovery for 50,000 Canadians who need it. That's conservative leader Pierre Pauliev blaming the liberal government's support for safe injection sites and access to drugs for the increasing rates of overdoses and overdose deaths. He wants to replace injection sites with rehab sites. To fund this program, we will end federal funding for opioids, defund the drug dens, sue the opioid manufacturers and consulting companies who created this crisis,

and we will fund directly those people who need the help, through groups that have success in delivering drug-free outcomes. He also says he wants better surveillance at the border to stop opioids getting into Canada and tougher sentences for drug traffickers. Liberal leader Mark Carney is campaigning in B.C. but tomorrow he'll put his Prime Minister's hat on and meet with Premier David Eby to discuss a Team Canada approach in support of B.C.''s forestry industry. The US says it will apply tariffs of just over 34% on Canadian lumber exports.

The Trump tariffs and threats are driving down the number of Canadians planning vacations in the US, but many in the hospitality industry say they're not seeing a drop in Americans making bookings. The executive director of Cranbrook Tourism says she expects a busy summer ahead. Kristi Jan says local campgrounds are already booked up and golf courses are seeing a 26% increase in bookings compared to this time last year. Americans you know are still going to come to us maybe even in increasing numbers and that that's because we are the friendly neighbour to the north

and that we want to remember to kind of preserve that at a time like this. She says preliminary numbers from Destination Canada already show an uptick in travel intent from Americans. And because so many communities rely on tourism, she says she hopes Canadians will remember to be kind. Alex Ovechkin has made NHL history. The Washington Capitals captain broke Wayne Gretzky's record of 894 career goals. The Great One held that honor for 31 years after taking it from Gordy Howe in 94.

The game against the New York Islanders was immediately paused for an on-ice ceremony marking the moment. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman gave the record-breaker a painting of Ovechkin hoisting the Stanley Cup. Ovechkin addressed the crowd and his team. Like I always say all the time, it's a team sport without my boys. team. A beaming Gretzky was on hand, as were Ovechkin's mother, wife, and two sons. And that is The World This Hour. Thanks so much for listening.

For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.