The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/08 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/08 at 16:00 EDT

1942, Europe. Soldiers find a boy surviving alone in the woods. They make him a member of Hitler's army. But what no one would know for decades, he was Jewish. Could a story so unbelievable be true? I'm Dan Goldberg. I'm from CBC's personally, Toy Soldier. Available now wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Angie Seff. We begin with the federal election campaign. Liberal leader Mark Carney is continuing his quest for Western votes. He was in BC this morning selling his home building plan. We'll head to Calgary later tonight for a rally. Carina Roman has more.

I'm not a career politician. I'm a pragmatist. I'm here to get things done. Mark Carney says this is why voters in the West should trust that he cares about their issues when the Liberals path to winning government doesn't include a need to win Western seats. I'm here to address a series of crises. The crisis first and foremost with the United States, the crisis in housing, the cost of living crisis. At a timber facility, Carney says his promise to double the number of homes

built in Canada each year will use Canadian lumber and create Canadian jobs, making the country less dependent on the U.S. I am asking through the Liberal Party for the support of all Canadians to serve all Canadians for those crises. Carney said he would govern for all Canadians, even ones who don't like him, such as the thousands of supporters at conservative rallies. Karina Roman, CBC News, Delta, B.C. Jagmeet Singh meantime is vowing to permanently ban foreign buyers from the Canadian housing market. We're not interested in billionaires making lots of money off of housing.

We're not interested in investors and speculators driving up the cost of homes. We want to put a stop to that so that you and your family can actually afford a home. The federal NDP leader delivered that pledge in British Columbia where his party is slipping in the polls. Conservative leader Pierre Polyev is promising to lower taxes for Canadians by cracking down on offshore tax havens. On a stop in Edmonton, he says he plans to rewrite tax rules and expose corporations that dodge their taxes.

But as Olivia Stavanovic reports, it's all part of a plan that takes aim at his main political rival. Mark Carney, like all liberals, is a high-tax hypocrite. Conservative leader Pierre Poliev accusing the liberal leader of personally stashing his taxes abroad, when in fact, Mark Carney co-chaired two investment funds for asset manager Brookfield, worth a total of 25 billion dollars registered in Bermuda to give pensioners tax advantages. You can't avoid your taxes global elites should not be able to either. While tax havens are not illegal

Poliev is trying to undermine Carney's credibility and appeal to working Canadians promising to crack down on tax havens, rewrite tax rules, and close offshore banking loopholes. Poliev also says he wants to name and shame wealthy corporations that dodge taxes like Brookfield, a company that Poliev indirectly held investments in. Olivia Stefanovic, CBC News, Edmonton. The White House's top trade negotiator insists Donald Trump's economic strategy is working. Jameson Greer is defending the president's broad tariffs before Congress. He says dozens of countries have come forward to negotiate.

We've already had many countries explain that they are not going to retaliate against the United States. And in fact, Vietnam, for example, they've lowered their tariffs already on cherries they've lowered them on almonds and apples things I know are important to the Pacific Northwest and this is exactly the right direction that we want to go in. Greer says Trump is firm on his stance and won't be making exemptions it comes as Wall Street goes through yet another day of tumultuous trading. US markets opened on a more positive note earlier in the day but are now sliding into the red once again. Trump's new

tariffs on most of the world but not Canada take effect tomorrow. Instagram users under 16 years of age won't be able to live stream without parental consent. They will also need permission to unblur suspected nudity in direct messages. This is part of the changes that will be soon rolled out to users in the United States, Canada, Britain and Australia. Meta launched its teen account program for Instagram back in September. It now says will be extending the teen account safeguards to Facebook and Messenger. And that is the world This Hour. Remember you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts updated every hour seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Angie Seth.