The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/19 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/19 at 12:00 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. ["The World This Hour"] From CBC News, The World This Hour, I'm Claude Fague. Liberal leader Mark Carney has released

his party's economic platform this morning. Today, I'm proud to launch Canada Strong, our plan to unite, to secure, to protect and build Canada. Carney made the announcement in Whitby, Ontario his platform promises nearly 130 billion dollars in new spending over the next four years adding about 2555 billion to the federal debt. We're not spending that amount of money. We're investing that amount of money. So we're using very limited government resources to catalyze enormous private sector investment.

And that's what drives this economy forward. That's what meets this moment. Another platform is being rolled out today. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh announced his party's plans and his riding of Burnaby BC. Here's what we'll fight to deliver in the first year. Real steps towards a family doctor for every Canadian. Universal pharmacare, national rent control, grocery price caps, a real fixed EI and tax relief for working people. Conservative leader Pierre Paulieva is spending his day in Richmond, BC. He's expected to announce his cost to platform soon. Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet is holding a press conference in the city of Magog.

U.S. President Donald Trump is defending the decision to deport a Maryland man to an El Salvador prison, even though he was granted protection back in 2019. Steve Futterman has the latest. The battle continues and is escalating, but this morning, Kilmore Abrego Garcia remains in prison in El Salvador. The Trump administration saying he will never return to the U. S. Even though the U. S. Supreme

Court has ordered it to facilitate his return. Yesterday, Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen returned from El Salvador after meeting with Abrego Garcia face to face. He says what Trump has done is illegal and potentially threatened to be a threat to the office. The president's office is being held in the US. The president's office is

being held in the US. Senator Chris Van Hollen returned from El Salvador after meeting with a bravo Garcia face to face. He says what Trump has done is illegal and potentially threatens even U. S citizens. The Trump administration is

asserting a right to stash away residents of this country. In foreign prisons without the semblance of due process, Trump insists he has no way to bring a brigo gracia back to the US and El Salvador's leader, a close ally of Trump, has said he will not release him. This latest test of Trump's power hasn't reached the stage of a true constitutional crisis yet, but it's moving in that direction. Steve Futterman for CBC News, Los Angeles. The Easter season is bittersweet this year for some chocolate shops.

That's thanks to high cacao prices and the high cost of ingredients all along the supply chain that have been impacted by Trump's trade war. Karen Pauls explains. Staff at Mordens of Winnipeg are packing up boxes of Russian mints and wrapping chocolate bunnies. Fred Morden is the owner. A lot of people are ignoring those prices and it's the quality that brings everyone back. Food industry experts say the price of cacao,

the raw ingredient in chocolate, is about four times higher than in 2022 because of bad weather and a virus in West Africa. US President Donald Trump's trade war is also raising the price of some ingredients and packaging. Easter products, they've gone up by about 25 to 50 percent. Sylvain Charlebois, Senior Director of Agri-food Analytics at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He says companies selling Easter chocolate will use more ingredients like marshmallows

and… companies selling Easter chocolate will use more ingredients like marshmallows and there's the infamous shrink-flation strategy their bunny or egg is smaller for the same price. Karen Pauls, CBC News, Winnipeg. Team Canada is hoping to punch its ticket to gold at the World Women's Hockey Championships in the Czech Republic. Today Canada will face off against Finland in semifinal play. Puck drop is just after 1pm Eastern Time. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Quad Fady.