The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/18 at 07:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/18 at 07:00 EDT

Scott Payne spent nearly two decades working undercover as a biker, a neo-Nazi, a drug dealer, and a killer. But his last big mission at the FBI was the wildest of all. I have never had to burn baubles. I have never had to burn an American flag. And I damn sure was never with a group of people that stole a goat, sacrificed it in a pagan ritual, and drank its blood. And I did all that in about three days with these guys. Listen to Agent Palehorse, the second season of White Hot Hate, available now. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. Canadian voters can begin making their judgements on the outcome of the English debate performance today, as advance polls open.

Federal leaders went face to face last night for the final time in this election campaign. As Olivia Stefanovic reports, Liberal leader Mark Carney was the one mostly in the crossfire. You are exactly in the same line as Justin Trudeau and the rest of the liberal team. Conservative leader Pierre Poliev repeatedly tried to paint Mark Carney in the same image of his predecessor. Look, I'm a very different person from Justin Trudeau. Focus is on results. Were you his economic adviser? Carney pushed back.

Justin Trudeau isn't here. Although the new liberal leader was the main target, Carney wasn't the only one who came under attack. Conservatives have a plan for change. And that plan includes cutting your... NDP leader Jagmeet Singh interrupted Poliev several times. You want to save people $2,000, but cut their dental care, which is thousands of dollars... Bloch-Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchette also engaged in some sharp exchanges with Carney over areas of provincial jurisdiction.

Forcing health care, spending our whole social safety. Intrusion, intrusion, intrusion, intrusion in Quebec jurisdiction over and again. Olivier Stvanovich, CBC News, Montreal. Freedom convoy organizer Chris Barber has requested a stay of proceedings. This comes just two weeks after an Ontario judge found him and fellow convoy organizer Tamara Leach guilty of mischief for their roles in the 2022 mass protest in Ottawa. According to a news release from the non-profit assisting his defense, Barber argues the proceedings should be halted because he was seeking advice from lawyers, police, and a superior court judge regarding the legality of the protest.

The cost of tariffs is already hitting both sides of the border. Canadians may need to find alternatives to American products to avoid the retaliatory charges applied by the federal government. But in many cases, businesses don't have anywhere else to buy what they need. And as Anis Haydari explains, temporary relief from Canada's government may only delay financial catastrophe. So these tanks are our biggest impact in tariff, costing us tens of thousands of dollars a week. For Derek Friesen, retaliatory tariffs may cost big bucks. He owns Fiber Manufacturing in Crystal City, Manitoba.

They make farm equipment, but need specific parts from the U.S. Everything coming into Canada is what we've been paying tariffs on, and it's kind of caught us off guard a little bit with the extent of it. His company has already suspended or delayed some shipments to avoid having to pay even more than they already have. He doesn't have alternatives to American suppliers yet. A recent announcement from Ottawa could help by providing six months of counter-tariff relief for some. But manufacturers like Derek Friesen say that's not enough time. He estimates it would take

a year or more for a Canadian supplier to start making the parts he needs from scratch. So while Ottawa may temporarily have him dodging tens of thousands of dollars in extra costs, retaliatory tariffs may still be a problem. Anis Hadari, CBC News, Calgary. At least 38 people have been killed and 102 wounded in US airstrikes on Yemen. The American military's Central Command has confirmed the attack. This is one of the highest reported death tolls so far in this campaign. The U.S. is threatening to walk away from Russia- Ukraine peace talks if no progress is made soon. Secretary of State Marco Rubio

has been in Paris for meetings with European and Ukrainian officials. He says those talks were positive but says the process cannot continue on for months. This is important but there are a lot of other really important things going on that deserve just as much if not more attention. So if they're serious about peace either side or both we want to help. If it's not going to happen then we're just going to move on. Kiev is accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of stalling for time to make gains on the battlefront. During the US presidential campaign Donald Trump promised to end the war within his first 24 hours in the

White House. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.