The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/10 at 03:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 10, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/10 at 03:00 EDT

When they predict we'll fall, we rise to the challenge. When they say we're not a country, we stand on guard. This land taught us to be brave and caring, to protect our values, to leave no one behind. Canada is on the line and it's time to vote as though our country depends on it. Because like never before, it does. I'm Jonathan Pedneau, co-leader of the Green Party of Canada. This election, each vote makes a difference. Authorized by the Registeredleader of the Green Party of Canada. This election, each vote, makes a difference. Authorized by the registered agent of the Green Party of Canada.

From CBC News, the World This Hour, I'm Neil Herland. China is taking new steps today in a trade war with the U.S. retaliating against Washington by responding with an 84 percent tariff on U.S. goods sold in China. It's part of Beijing's response to President Donald Trump's 125 percent tariff on Chinese goods. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is questioning Trump's tariff strategy, especially when it comes to Canada. How is it worth it when you have people that have been our neighbors and allies and friends

for almost 200 years in Canada now distrusting the United States, our friends in the UK throughout Europe distrusting the United States? We are becoming isolated from the rest of the world. Yesterday, Trump paused a plan to impose hefty tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners. On the platform, ex-Prime Minister Mark Carney called Trump's pause on tariffs a welcome reprieve for the global economy. But conservative leader Pierre Polyaev questioned Carney's ability to deal with the American president.

A sharp divide is emerging in the way federal parties are dealing with the media. Most parties have taken a traditional approach with media outlets, including the CBC, paying to have their reporters travel on board campaign planes and buses. The Conservative Party decided not to bring reporters along this campaign, which has made it more challenging to cover Conservative leader Pierre Polyaev. But as Tom Parry reports, that's not the only hurdle reporters have had to face. Pierre Polyaev's campaign day usually starts with a speech unveiling some new policy followed by a news conference. Polyaev usually takes just four questions, with conservative party staffers deciding

which reporters get to ask. Is that why you haven't got your security clearance? That boiled over this week in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, when a reporter not hand-picked by the party tried to shout a question. Sorry there's just a protester here. Go ahead. It's a reporter trying to ask you a legitimate question. The Liberals, New Democrats and Bloc Québécois all have reporters travelling on their campaigns.

Those reporters decide who asks questions. It's added up to the other party leaders facing far more questions at their events than Poliev, whose party vowed this would be one of the most accessible and transparent campaigns in recent memory. Tom Perry, CBC News, Ottawa. A former artist in residence at a Prince Edward Island University says he had no choice but to leave his position over a dispute about one of his paintings. Christopher Griffin says he painted the work to stand up for his country, but the university

says it's not the right venue for that kind of work. Wayne Thibodeau has more. I felt I had to do something. Christopher Griffin's painting is a group of lemmings in a boat carrying an American flag. I chose lemmings because they have the mythology of producing mass suicide by jumping over a cliff. And it seemed to me that the government of the United States was self-inflicting wounds. The college says it prompted complaints including from

American faculty members. Griffin says he was given two options, take down the controversial painting or leave. He decided to quit. Dominique Griffin is the Dean of the Atlantic Veterinary College where the artwork was on display. An Institute of Higher Education, especially one that focuses on veterinary science and animal health, was not the right venue for that. Christopher Griffin says he just wanted to stand up for his country. He says it's just too bad it had to end this way. Wayne Tibbetto, CBC News, Charlottetown.

King Charles has a heartfelt apology for Italians. He became the first British monarch to address both houses of parliament in Rome. I can only hope you will forgive us for occasionally corrupting your wonderful cuisine. We do so, I promise you, with the greatest possible affection. Charles also paid a private visit to Pope Francis. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Herland.