The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/20 at 14:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 20, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/20 at 14:00 EDT

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From the CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Kate Rutherford. Eight days before the election, conservative leader Pierre Poliev doesn't yet have a fully costed platform, but he is talking about where he would reduce spending to axe what he's calling the inflation tax. JP Tasker was at Polyev's campaign stop in Surrey, BC. Yesterday we learned that Mark Carney is far more costly than Justin Trudeau. Conservative leader Pierre Polyev is tearing into the new liberal platform,

but he still hasn't released one of his own. He's the last major party leader to put out a plan, and advance voting ends Monday. But Poliev is promising to slash government spending on consultants. Can you imagine that? You're spending over $1,000 in federal taxes just to pay for consultants. This is insane. Poliev is also facing questions about his plan to tackle gun crime.

He's refusing to say if he will repeal the national handgun ban if elected. JP Tasker, CBC News, Surrey, BC. Also on the West Coast, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is in Victoria talking about how he wants to reduce inflation. We're going to put in a price cap on food essentials. This is a policy that France has done and Greece has done. Both of them have effectively brought down food inflation in the case of France by 15 percent, and in the case of Greece, they brought down food prices by 15 percent by putting

in a price cap on food essentials. We're going to stop price gouging. As for the other leaders, Liberal leader Mark Carney is rallying this hour in his Ottawa area riding and the Bloc Québécois Yves-François Blanchet is visiting with local candidates ahead of tonight's appearance on popular Radio-Canada talk show Tout Le Monde En Parle. Election Canada says nearly 2 million people showed up on the first day of advanced voting Friday. That's a record turnout. Some early voters in Vancouver say it's an important election. There's a lot at risk. So for me to come out and

wait in line even if it was an hour and a half and it built anxiety and all of that stuff, it was just important to come do it, get it done. I'm 72. I voted since I could. And this is probably the most crucial election for Canada that I can remember. It comes as people across the country reported experiencing long lineups at polling stations. Elections Canada says there are a number of reasons why lines could be long at certain locations such as the long weekend, good weather and the state of politics, but they are encouraging voters to choose off-peak hours, bring their ID and a little bit of patience.

Election day is one week from tomorrow. Time is running out for the truce Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared for fighting in Ukraine. The US State Department says it would like to see it extended while Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky counters it never really took effect. Dominic Velaitis explains. The temporary ceasefire announced yesterday by Russia's Vladimir Putin appears to be in pieces with both sides today blaming each other for the breakdown.

In statements posted on social media, Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelensky says Putin's words about a truce had proven empty and that Russia had launched scores of strikes and assaults against Ukrainian positions from last night. Meanwhile, Russia's defence ministry says Ukraine has broken the ceasefire more than a thousand times since it was announced and had inflicted damage to infrastructure and killed civilians in the process. Last night, Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for the 30-hour ceasefire to be extended for 30 days. More time, he said, that could give peace a chance. The Kremlin, though, has now

confirmed Putin has not ordered to extend the truce, which officially ends at 5pm Eastern Time. Dominic Vlaitis for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. And in Syria. Christians in Damascus marked Easter with a special prayers and processions as police and local committees kept watch outside historic churches. This was the first Easter under Syria's new transitional government following years of conflict and the end of the rule of Bashar al-Assad. And that is Your World This Hour.

For CBC News, I'm Kate Rutherford.