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

Episode Date: April 16, 2025

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

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From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Juliette Hazelwood. We begin with a provincial push to remove into provincial trade barriers. We're taking a historic step forward to protect and unify our country. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province is making domestic trade easier. Ford has signed free trade agreements with the premiers of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Much like President Trump's tariffs, these trade barriers hurt our economy, drive away jobs and investment, and divide us from each other. Ford also says a new bill would make Ontario the first province to remove all

current exempt exceptions to interprovincial free trade. It would also remove barriers that make it difficult for people in certain jobs to work in different provinces. Interprovincial trade barriers are estimated to cost the Canadian economy $200 billion a year. The Green Party has been dropped from this week's televised leaders debates. The Greens co-leader Jonathan Pedneau was informed of the decision this morning. The ruling comes just hours before the French debate in Montreal. Greena Roman has more. I have no further comments. Green Party leader Jonathan Pedneau postponed his scheduled unveiling

of his full election platform because this morning he got a letter from the Leaders Debate Commission telling him he's no longer allowed to participate in tonight's French language debate or tomorrow's English debate. Their last minute decision to exclude the Green Party of Canada from the Leaders Debate

is not only unjust and baseless because we met the criteria, it is undemocratic. 28 days before election day, each party had to have endorsed candidates in at least 90 percent of federal writings. The Greens met that bar, but the commission says that because the party intentionally reduced the number of its candidates since then for strategic reasons, that's inconsistent with proof of party viability. And Pedno's inclusion would undermine the integrity of the debates.

Karina Roman, CBC News, Montreal. Tune in tomorrow for a CBC Radio news special on the federal leaders' English language debate. Susan Bonner and P. H. Hatapati will bring you full coverage along with analysis and the leaders Q&A sessions with reporters following the debate. And then it's your chance to weigh in during a special edition of Cross Country Checkup

with Ian Hannemancing. It all gets underway 7 p.m. Eastern on CBC radio and the CBC News app. Water researchers are warning about low snowpack in the Rockies and they say it could foreshadow another difficult summer for Albertans from farmers to firefighters. Aaron Collins has more. Our forested site snow surveys are half Rockies is extremely low this year, and Pomeroy says that raises the likelihood of drought and water restrictions in Alberta this summer.

Nothing new about droughts, but to have end-on-end droughts, we seem to be seeing more of this, and of course the temperatures are up, and that's global heating. Another dry summer a problem for the province's farmers, but also making fertile conditions for wildfires. Todd Lowen is Alberta's forestry minister. He says wildfire personnel have been preparing for this season since the fall. In recent years, the scale, intensity and unpredictability of these fires have shown us just how important it is to be prepared.

Lowen says Alberta has beefed up its ability to forecast wildfire conditions this year. Erin Collins, CBC News, Calgary. The number of cross-border travelers going from Canada to the U.S. dropped dramatically in March. That's according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The agency says nearly 900,000 fewer people entered the U.S. from Canada compared to the same period last year. That's a 17 percent decline in travel. Observers say it's largely driven by Donald Trump's trade war, Canada bashing and 51st state taunts.

March is typically one of the busiest months for U.S. bound travel with many people heading south for spring break. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.