The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/06 at 23:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/06 at 23:00 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. On the campaign trail, Liberal leader Mark Carney is in B.C. to campaign and also to have a meeting with the province's premier regarding new American tariffs on Canadian lumber.

Carina Roman has more. This is the first time this election campaign that Liberal leader Mark Carney is setting foot in British Columbia. Critics had certainly noted his absence from anywhere further west than Winnipeg so far. He is expected to sit down with the BC premier. David Eby wants to talk softwood lumber and the move by the US to hike duties on softwood, something that could further threaten the already beleaguered forest industry. Eby has said he wants to see the same Team Canada approach on softwood that has been

applied to the auto, steel and aluminum sectors in Ontario and Quebec. Many ridings in BC are blue-orange battles, but polls show the Liberals making unexpected gains in this province. Carney needs to show BCers that he cares about the West as much as he does central Canada. That goal could be bolstered if this third week of the election becomes the first one that Carney doesn't need to suspend his campaign to head back to Ottawa and deal with another Donald Trump related crisis. Karina Roman, CBC News, Victoria. The Conservative leader, Pierre Poliev, also went to BC to unveil his plans for

tackling the opioid crisis. Olivia Stavanovich reports. Make no mistake we will be shutting down drug dens. Conservative leader, Pierre Pol Poliev attacking supervised consumption sites in the province that started prescribing drugs as medication to those addicted to opioids, a harm reduction strategy supported by the Liberal government. This is outrageous. We cannot go on like this. Poliev is promising to suspend the approval of new supervised consumption sites. He also vows to ban the facilities within 500 meters of schools, playgrounds, daycares,

parks and seniors' homes. An announcement he made in a writing held by NDP MP Peter Julian since 2004. I think his agenda is wrong-headed. Julian campaigned in the rain with supporters outside of the convention centre where Polyev gave his press conference. Olivia Stivanovich, CBC News, New Westminster. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh started his day campaigning on the East Coast before heading to Quebec. David Thurton has more. That's all that's up, right?

The NDP was in a rainy Dartmouth, Nova Scotia today. Jugmeet Singh attended the sovereignty rally, elbows up. But in all the rain it was more like umbrellas up. Earlier, Singh was at a coffee shop, talking about his plans for national rent control. The NDP leader also mentioned as well the return of Ruth Ellen Broso. The Quebec candidate was in Las Vegas during the 2011 election and famously did not spend a single day in her riding during the campaign. The rookie MP got elected during the Orange Wave.

She rose to the ranks and won re-election before losing to the Bloc Québécois in 2019. With a lot of folks, there were detractors. People thought that she wasn't going to be a great MP and she turned out to be an incredible MP. Singh is also making an appearance on the popular Quebec TV show, Tout le Monde en Pau. David Thurton, CBC News, Halifax. Ontario power crews are still working to get everyone reconnected to the electrical grid after a pair of back-to-back ice storms. At its peak, more than a quarter of a million customers had no power. That's down to just over 72,000. A veterans group called Team Rubicon is helping people clean up the

damage. Sydney Gurzumish is one of the volunteers in Peterborough, Ontario. You don't expect for disaster or strike in your own home. It's very fulfilling for me to be able to help out and provide my local knowledge to all the other grayshirts here because I'm the only one really from the area. It's nice to be able to help on things like Recon and say like I know this area, I know this is where you need to go, these are the areas that are going to be hit hard. Team ArubaCon focuses on helping seniors and low-income families who may not be able to afford a contractor. And that is your World This Hour.

For CBC News, I'm Neil Kumar.