The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/15 at 17:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 15, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/15 at 17:00 EDT

When a body is discovered 10 miles out to sea, it sparks a mind-blowing police investigation. There's a man living in this address in the name of a deceased. He's one of the most wanted men in the world. This isn't really happening. Officers are finding large sums of money. It's a tale of murder, skullduggery and international intrigue. So who really is he? I'm Sam Mullins and this is Sea of Lies from CBC's Uncovered, available now.

From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. Hockey trumps politics. The first of two federal debates has been moved from 8 p.m. to 6 tomorrow. The reason reason a Montreal Canadians game. I would like like anybody else to watch the game. Block leader Yves-Francois Blanchet says moving the debate means people won't have to choose between politics and hockey.

Tomorrow the Montreal Canadians face the Carolina Hurricanes in what could be their last shot at the Stanley Cup. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh had warned the scheduling conflict could seriously impact who tunes in to watch the discussion. The federal government says it received assurances from Honda it is not planning to move its Canadian operations to the U.S. Reports about a possible move added to the jitters about the future of Canada's auto industry, just as the Liberals pledged to ease that uncertainty. Carina Roman reports. This gives us a sense of the scale of the attack on our auto sector and our other sectors.

Liberal leader Mark Carney, in response to reports that Honda plans to move some production from Canada to the U.S., later a statement from Honda cast doubt on any imminent threat. But the reaction to just the spectre of it highlights the very real fear around Donald Trump's tariffs. Kearney says there are incentives for auto companies to remain in Canada, including that Ottawa's counter tariffs will not apply to them. And there is a fund to help impacted businesses. But he says...

It's a war and we can't provide guarantees for every situation and that just underscores how important it is, the negotiation with the U.S. president and who is going to be across the table for that. Carney says he's spoken to the automaker CEOs and they have said they want to maintain their production in Canada. Karina Roman, CBC News, Montreal. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh says if elected his party will hike the capital gains tax.

The Liberal government initially proposed this change but abandoned the idea after pushback from businesses and doctors who say they were unfairly targeted. Singh is promising to use billions of dollars raised to pay for social programs. Conservatives are pledging to protect seniors from fraud. The party says it will enlist the help of banks and phone companies to crack down on scammers. Rafi Boujikhanian has more. Scammers started each call with the words, hi, grandpa,

hi, grandma. Pierre Pogliev listing one of a litany of recent scams targeting seniors. Eight young men and women carried out a scam of seniors worth $30 million. The Conservatives' latest announcement is focused on crime. They would make Canadian banks and cell phone providers proactively stop suspicious transactions, make them publicly report statistics on fraud prevention, and impose a mandatory one-year jail sentence for fraud over $5,000. Recently, Poliev also announced he would bring back multiple consecutive life sentences for

perpetrators of multiple murders. You let repeat violent offenders back out on the street, you get more crime under the liberals. An issue Poliev clearly hopes to turn into a wedge ahead of debates this week. Rafi Boudjikani on CBC News, Montreal. Jury selection began in New York today in Harvey Weinstein's retrial on multiple rape charges. New York's Court of Appeal threw out his 2020 conviction and a 23-year sentence.

It found that women lacking formal charges should not have been allowed to testify. Lindsay Goldblum is representing a number of Weinstein's accusers. Justice has been delayed. The conviction was overturned and the DA's office is going to have to try this case again. And they are going to ensure that Weinstein

is held accountable for his heinous crimes against women. Even if acquitted, the former film producer will not be able to walk free. The 73-year-old is serving a 16-year sentence in another rape case, this time in Los Angeles. He is appealing that conviction as well. And I should just mention that French debate that we talked about at the top of the clock is 6 p.m. Eastern time. I just didn't mention the time zone. That's The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.