The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/09 at 07:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 9, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/09 at 07:00 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 this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. As of this morning, US President Donald Trump's new global tariff campaign is now in effect. Trump is calling the tariffs explosive and a boost for the American economy. And as we hear now from Katie Nicholson, there could be more to come. President Trump was defiant last night, just hours before these tariffs kicked in, telling

an audience of mostly Republicans that they were legendary and his plan will work. I know what I'm doing. These countries are calling us up, kissing... They are. They are dying to make it here. Please, please, make it here. I'll do anything. Trump also said he will soon be announcing a major tariff on pharmaceuticals. So important to consider outside of the U.S., the US China India and there are several European countries who are major players in the Pharmaceuticals industry so expect this to touch off more disruption in this trade war China of course now subject to that eye-popping 104 percent tariff after Trump added another 50 percent to tariffs He'd already had on the table China equally defiant says it will not back down to bullying and it will announce its own slew of countermeasures. And remember, its own 34% tariff on US goods

is going to kick in at 12.01 a.m. Thursday. Katie Nicholson, CBC News, Washington. Now, Canada isn't facing any new American tariffs today, but the Canadian government is hitting the US with a specific retaliatory trade measure. Rafi Boudjikianian has the details. Canada's counterpunch started just after midnight in response to US President Donald Trump's auto tariffs last week of 25% on all vehicles made outside the US. So now Canada is responding in kind and fully assembled vehicles that are not compliant with the Canada-US-Mexico Free Trade Agreement or CUSMA will be tariffed 25% when they are imported into this country.

There will also be 25% tariffs on the non-Canadian or non-Mexican components of CUSMA compliant vehicles. Proceeds of the tariffs are supposed to go towards supporting the Canadian auto industry as well as affected workers. The finance department has yet to reveal exactly how that would work. Rafi Boudjikani on CBC News, Ottawa. Now to the federal election campaign and Liberal leader Mark Carney. He is turning his focus to Western Canada, which is of course the Conservative Party heartland.

Carina Roman has more. I thought I was in Calgary. This is amazing. Liberal leader Mark Carney has likely heard the jokes about how lonely it can be to be Team Red in Calgary. For the most part, this is a conservative blue town in a conservative province. But the Liberals are hoping to break through past the one seat they have here in Calgary. Carney has his work cut out for him as he tries to woo Western voters. But supporter Chantal Valliere says she believes more Albertans will give him a chance. People are realizing that, okay, maybe we didn't like Trudeau,

but maybe we just needed a fresh new face, someone who could bring new ideas. The rally filled the room to its 1,000-person capacity. Another estimated 1,000 people were outside listening to Carney on loudspeakers. That might pale in comparison to the 10,000-plus at the conservative rally in Edmonton two nights ago. But liberals in this crowd say they felt a little less lonely than usual. Karina Roman, CBC News, Calgary. Carney wraps up his visit to Calgary this morning before heading to Saskatoon. Conservative leader Pierre Polyev is starting his day in Sault Ste. Marie.

NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is in Vancouver. Bloc leader Yves-Francois Blanchet has three stops scheduled for Quebec. And the Green Party co-leaders are doing interviews in Ottawa. Now to Santo Domenico in the Dominican Republic. Family and friends of those killed or injured in this week's nightclub disaster gather outside the collapsed building. They're waiting information on what led to the collapse of the roof at the Jet Set nightclub. The confirmed number of dead at this point is 98. Investigators on the scene say it's too early to speculate what brought the building down.

And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.