The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/18 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/18 at 16:00 EDT

Just weeks after 9-11, letters containing anthrax were sent all over America, and it would go down as the deadliest biological attack in U.S. history. I'm Kathleen Goltar, and this week on Crime Story, I speak with Jeremiah Kroll about a long-forgotten story that's had a lasting impact on American life. Find Crime Story wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. Advance polls are now open across Canada

and federal leaders are back on the campaign trail after this week's two election debates. They're focusing their messages and making their pitch to voters as the campaign enters the home stretch. Tom Perry reports. A Canada that's forever independent of the United States. Liberal leader Mark Carney in Niagara Falls Ontario on the Canada-U.S. border promising to build this country's economy and stand up to U.S. President Donald Trump. Now the question is whether we, with rising costs and crime, the Liberals deserve a fourth

term in power. Conservative leader Pierre Paulyev in Montreal continued to hammer home his message that Carney is no different than his predecessor Justin Trudeau, while NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, also campaigning in Quebec, kept up his pitch to voters to put New Democrats in a position to influence whoever comes out on top in this election. Ottawa does work best when one party doesn't have all the power. I'm going to let people... With advanced voting underway, Canadians are already starting to make up their minds. Tom Perry, CBC News, Ottawa. Conservative leader Pierre Polyev says he'll reverse a federal ban on single use plastics

including food packaging and straws. Only 1% of plastic waste ever ends up in the environment. The other 99% it's disposed of safely or recycled. But the Liberals don't care because this isn't about science, it's about symbolism and control. They're not about saving the planet, they're about punishing all of us to make themselves feel good. Meanwhile, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is also in Montreal making pitches on issues that matter to Quebec.

David Thurton reports. When we lay out our vision for Quebec, it's one of acknowledging Quebec as a nation. Jagmeet Singh unveiling his plan for Quebecers. The NDP leader is making sweeping promises. Under the New Democrat plan, the Quebec government will receive a boost to its immigration funding, $100 million annually, plus reimbursement for other costs dealing with increased arrivals of asylum seekers. Singh also promised to invest in massive electric transmission lines.

And it would be an east-west energy grid that would connect all the way from the west coast to the east coast, and it would allow for Canada to have access to low-cost hydroelectric energy. For Quebec, what that would mean is, instead of having to be dependent on selling energy only to the states, Quebec could sell energy to the rest of Canada. Although Singh has released his plan for Quebec, he has yet to unveil his national platform. David Thurton, CBC News, Yamashish, Quebec. The US could abandon Russia-Ukraine peace talks if it doesn't see progress soon. Stalled ceasefire negotiations have led to mounting frustration on all sides and conflicting messages from the White House.

Phil Bleszianak has the latest. We're not going to continue with this endeavor for weeks and months on end. In Paris, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested the U.S. was days away from leaving talks if a deal is not imminent. We have other priorities to focus on as well. But hours later in Rome, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance sounded much more optimistic. We think we have some interesting things to report on. We do feel optimistic that we can hopefully bring this war, this very brutal war, to a

close. From the Oval Office, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested one side was being difficult. He didn't say whether it was Russia or Ukraine, but just that the time to make a deal was now or... We're going to just take a pass, but hopefully we won't have to do that. Marco is right in saying it. We're getting... we want to see it end. Trump declined to say what would happen to American military aid to Ukraine should the US decide to abandon ceasefire negotiations.

Philip P. Shannock, CBC News, Toronto. The Trump administration has released some 10,000 pages of documents related to the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. He was fatally shot in June of 1968. Some of the records have already been made public. Others sat in archives for decades. Last month, the White House released unredacted files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.

And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.