The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/20 at 17:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 20, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/20 at 17:00 EDT

Readers have been waiting for a new novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for 12 years. On my podcast Bookends, Chimamanda tells me what was happening behind the scenes, about the sudden loss of both of her parents and how her mother's spirit brought her back to fiction. Sometimes I do not even want to talk about my mother because I get ridiculously emotional. But she kind of helped me start writing because she realized that I might go mad if I wasn't... If the thoughts all had to stay inside. Search for bookends with Matea Roach to hear the rest of that conversation. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Kate Rutherford. For KBC News, the world this hour, I'm Kate Rutherford. Eggs are top of mind for many this Easter and so is the cost of groceries.

NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is talking about both, vowing to cap food prices while making a point about strategic voting. David Thurton explains how. No, you should definitely not put all your eggs in one basket. We've been taught this our whole life, folks. We know that you don't do that. And in this election, that totally applies. Jekmeet Singh talking about Easter eggs to make a political point about how Canadians

should vote in this election. Yeah, you shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket. You shouldn't put all your power in one party. And we know that that's just how our country has worked best. Singh is making it clear in no uncertain terms that if he gets his way, he wants Canadians to elect another minority government. After Liberal leader Mark Carney has been suggesting he needs a majority mandate to take on Donald Trump.

It's a new strategy as Canadians vote in advance polls this long holiday weekend. David Thurton, CBC News, Kaua Chin, Vancouver Island. Elsewhere, Liberal leader Mark Carney rallied in his Ottawa area riding. What a day. What a day. To be back in Nepean on this day when we celebrate with renewed hope for eternal glory. And of course, I'm speaking about the senators being in the... Yeah!

That comment coming before a hometown crowd in his Ottawa area riding, where he rallied supporters and local candidates and took a dig at his conservative rival. Within nine days, we did more than Pierre Poliev has imagined. Has imagined! In his many decades in politics. Act Poliev, sir. That's right, Poliev, Act Poliev. We just need to remove him. He does no violence.

He's had his time. He's got his pension. Earlier in Surrey, B.C., Conservative leader Pierre Poliev made this vow. I will axe the inflation tax. We will do this by cutting waste, capping spending, reducing deficits, taxes and inflation. We will cut bureaucracy, foreign aid, handouts to corporate insiders, special interest groups and consultants. As for the other leaders, the Bloc Québécois Yves-Francois Blanchet appears tonight on Radio-Canada's Tout Le Monde en Parle. Green co-leaders Elizabeth May and

Jonathan Pednot don't have any special events scheduled today. Nova Scotia RCMP have suspended the search for a child who fell into a river Thursday while fishing. More than 13 agencies were involved but there's been nothing to prove the child got out of the water safely or to pinpoint a search area for remains. Officials are considering next steps before beginning again. President Volodymyr Zelensky is urging his Ukrainian compatriots not to give up hope. not to give up hope. We know what we defend, we know what we fight for. In a recorded Easter message, Zelensky says Ukrainians know who they are fighting for and will not lose faith.

But he had harsh words for Vladimir Putin accusing the Russian president of not respecting his own temporary ceasefire. Zelensky says Russia has violated the 30-hour Easter truce, which runs out in two hours. Washington says it would like to see it extended, but the Kremlin has said Putin has not taken any such action. At the Vatican, Pope Francis waved to those who gathered in St. Peter's Square as he prepared to deliver the Easter blessing. The pontiff made a brief appearance, drawing cheers from the crowd of thousands. Francis met briefly with US Vice President J.D. Vance. The 88-year-old Francis is still recovering from double pneumonia that kept him hospitalized for five weeks.

And in Syria, Christians in Damascus marked Easter with 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.