The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/17 at 13:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/17 at 13:00 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. The second of two federal leaders' debates happens tonight. And again, the Green Party won't be taking part, but that's not stopping it from getting its message out. David Thurton reports on the Green Climate Plan. We will end, and it is high time we do so, the era of fossil fuels. Not in 10 generations, but now. Green Party leader Jonathan Pednau says his party would fast track the transition away from oil and gas. Instead, Greens would focus on large-scale wind, solar,

and hydroelectricity generation. As for zero emission nuclear power, Pedneau says the world doesn't need another Chernobyl nuclear disaster. I was in Ukraine myself in 2022 when the Russians were invading and we had fears about not just of course about Chernobyl. I don't think anyone wants to live in next to a nuclear plant in this unstable world right now, especially not when we have so many other resources we can bank on. Pedneau says the Greens would instead direct federal funding to renewables. David Thurton, CBC News, Montreal. Tune in tonight 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 after the debate. And then it's your chance to weigh in during a special edition of cross country checkup with Ian Hanumancing. It all gets underway 7 p.m. Eastern on CBC radio and the CBC News app. The RCMP are searching for a woman and two children near the U.S. border. The Mounties believe they were traveling with three others who they arrested for illegally crossing into Quebec from the United States last night. Corporal Martina Pilarova says rescue efforts are still

underway. We're looking for them since after midnight. It's been many hours, so we are talking about search and rescue operation. Pilarova says dogs and a helicopter are being used in the search. She can't provide the nationality of the missing people. The three migrants in custody are being questioned by the Canada Border Services Agency. Ontario has added another 109 confirmed and probable cases of measles to its tally. The growth over the last week brings the total number of cases in the outbreak to 925.

Ontario Public Health says the continuing spread is mainly due to transmission among people who haven't been immunized. Police across the country are cracking down on users of a platform known for phishing and cyber scams. It's part of an international investigation of lab host. And authorities believe Canadian suspects are responsible for a significant number of the scams worldwide.

Lauren McCallum has more. Police are going after super users of the lab host platform. More than half of the suspects are in Quebec. The Cilte du Québec says they were tipped off by police in England last year and spent the past few months putting fake usernames to faces here. Inspector Charles Leudon is the assistant director of cyber and financial crime investigations for the SQ. He says the 84 Quebecers are believed to be responsible for 25 percent of the phishing scams committed on the platform globally.

Canadian suspects from other provinces are suspected of committing another 25 percent. Houdon says victims were lured to fake banking and company websites where they unknowingly provided confidential financial data to fraudsters. Rudon says police are currently gathering evidence but haven't made any arrests. Lauren McCallum, CBC News, Montreal. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia has reduced the number of its strikes on Ukrainian energy facilities, but he says Moscow is now focusing its attacks on civilian infrastructure instead. Russia and Ukraine agreed to a U.S.-brokered

30-day pause on military strikes against energy infrastructure last month. Zelensky says in total Russia is launching the same number of missiles and drones at Ukraine as before that ceasefire. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Juliane Hazelwood.