The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/16 at 17:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 16, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/16 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 Julianne Hazelwood. Four leaders are getting ready to square off in the first debate of this election campaign. The field was reduced by one after the exclusion of Green Party co-leader Jonathan Pedneau. Tom Perry has the latest. What matters most here isn't a fair debate. It's a debate, the one that they're trying to create, that protects the status quo. The Green Party's co-leader Jonathan Pedneau not happy about his last-minute exclusion from both the French and English language debates. The commission overseeing the events ruled the Greens aren't running enough candidates

to qualify. That leaves the Liberals, Conservatives, NDP and Bloc Québécois with Liberal leader Mark Carney the least experienced debater and the least fluent in French. I work on my French every day. I improve, but I think I improve. All four leaders have a lot riding on tonight's debate as they make their case to French-speaking voters who have another important matter on their minds. The debate starting early to overlap less with a crucial Montreal Canadiens game that could determine whether the team makes the playoffs. Tom Perry,

CBC News, Ottawa. The Bank of Canada has announced it's holding its current interest rate at 2.75 percent. Its decision favors caution in the face of unpredictable American trade policy. Governor Tif-Mac Blum says the bank is waiting to see the effect of the tariffs on the Canadian economy. Faced with pervasive uncertainty, governing council will proceed carefully with particular attention to the risks. That means being less forward-looking than usual until the situation is clear. MacLim maintains monetary policy can't resolve trade uncertainty but it can control inflation. This is the first time since June the bank

won't be cutting its rate. California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced his state is suing the Trump administration over tariffs it imposed on other countries. This is recklessness at another level. The geopolitical impacts are outsized. The trade impacts are outsized, not just the economic. Newsom says 44% of California's imports come from Canada, Mexico and China and the global tariffs imposed by Donald Trump are

disproportionately affecting the Golden State. The governor calls the president's trade policy toxic and uncertain. California is the largest economy in the US and the fifth largest in the world. The US has imposed a 25% tax on Canadian and Mexican imports not covered by the North American Free Trade Agreement and a whopping 145% charge on Chinese goods. The UK's Supreme Court has ruled on the legal definition of a woman. The High Court determined it's based on a person's sex at birth. But the judges emphasised trans people still have existing legal protections against discrimination. Anna Cunningham has more.

For Women Scotland, the group that led this legal appeal celebrating outside the UK Supreme Court. They appealed to the UK's highest court after a long running battle with the Scottish government. Their dispute was over its argument that transgender people with a gender recognition certificate are entitled to sex-based protections. Judge Hodge says the ruling was unanimous. The terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex. 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex. The UK government says this legal ruling provides clarity for services including hospitals and sports clubs. But for the trans community across the UK, it could have far-reaching

consequences. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London. Scientists have caught a colossal squid on camera for the first time. An international research team cited the elusive creature from a remote controlled submarine. Video captured the young squid at a depth of more than half a kilometre in the South Atlantic Ocean. Full grown adults are about as big as a fire truck. They are the largest inverteile braes in the world.

And that is your World this Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julie-Ann Hasele Wood.