The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/08 at 08:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/08 at 08:00 EDT

While there are plenty of toxic social media personalities, few are as vicious and influential as Andrew Tate. Online, he brags about being a misogynist and his videos have been viewed billions of times. Now, Tate and his brother are under investigation for human trafficking. I'm Kathleen Goltar and this week on Crime Story, I speak with two journalists who spent four years inside Andrew Tate's Manosphere. Find Crime Story wherever you get your podcasts.

From CBC News, it's the world is our. I'm Joe Cummings. The battle for votes in Western Canada is heating up with three of the party leaders, Pierreiev, Mark Carney and Jagmeet Singh all campaigning in BC or Alberta. Kate McKenna has more. Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper endorsed Pierre Pauliev at a huge rally outside Edmonton last night. A clear sign to the Liberals who are saying their polling bump puts them in contention to pick up more seats in Western Canada, including Alberta. Pierre Pauliev wants to nip that thought in the bud. Just like on the carbon tax where Mark Carney was wrong, just like on blocking pipelines where he was wrong, Mark Carney is wrong for our future.

Liberal leader Mark Carney held his own rally, estimated to be about 2,000 people large, in Richmond last night. In just nine days, in nine days while we were formally in government, we did more than Pierre Poliev has imagined in all his decades in politics. The Conservatives have an easier time winning when the NDP is doing well. And this time it's looking more like a two-way race. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is back in BC for the second time in two weeks on the defensive. Today he's campaigning, fighting to keep his caucus seats and his own. Kate McKenna, CBC News, Ottawa. As for Bloc leader Yves-Francois Blanchet, he is in Ottawa today while the Green Party

unveils its health care plan in Guelph, Ontario. The Trump administration's chief trade negotiator is scheduled to appear today before the Senate Finance Committee. Jameson Greer can expect a hostile line of questioning as he's forced to defend a tariff campaign that has rocked the global trade sector. Katie Nicholson has more now from Washington. Well, you can expect fireworks. Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell is on the committee. She put forward that bill with Republican Senator Chuck Grassley looking to wrestle

the power to enact tariffs back to Congress. And Greer also has to worry about Grassley. He's from Iowa, where a lot of his constituents are really concerned about how these tariffs are going to impact the agriculture sector. Independent Senator Bernie Sanders is also on the committee. And of course, he has called the way that these tariffs have been implemented illegal and another step toward authoritarianism. Greer is likely going to push the White House line that these tariffs are going to boost

the domestic revenue and manufacturing and eliminate that 1.2 trillion trade deficit. Now, in a copy of his prepared remarks for this morning, Greer calls this a moment of drastic overdue change. And it's a message he's going to have to sell amid the backdrop of markets that have shed trillions since the plan was unveiled. Katie Nicholson, CBC News, Washington. Changes are coming to the funding formula Alberta uses to fund its hospitals. Premier Danielle Smith says her government is looking to tie public hospital funding

to the number and type of procedures performed. She says the new activity-based model will be more efficient and drive costs down by fostering competition among public and private providers. One of Russia's most infamous protest groups is touring Canada. Pussy Riot is a political protest show based on the memoir of one of its founding members. And their first international tour is underway since the show first premiered last month in Munich. Alex Chayasin has more. Pussy Riot says they are not a punk band.

This is not a punk show. Their Canadian tour is a protest. They're like, I would say more than just a band. They're like a movement. Concertgoers outside this week's Toronto show say Pussy Riot is just as impactful now as they were 13 years ago. When they held a punk prayer protesting Putin's Russia inside a Russian Orthodox church where they were arrested and sentenced to two years in a prison colony for religious hooliganism. This North American tour called Riot Days that's based on original member Maria Alquina's book of the same name. All of the proceeds go to the Ukraine war effort and advocacy for Russian political prisoners.

Alicia Sanssoubizi, News Toronto. And that is the World This Hour.