The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/20 at 18:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 20, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/20 at 18:00 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," by CBC News plays.] From CBC News, The World This Hour, I'm Kate Rutherford. This is the final week of campaigning.

Liberal leader Mark Carney is spending it as his rivals are, going everywhere they can to get every last vote. But first, Carney spent Sunday afternoon on home turf, rallying supporters in his Ottawa area riding. Tom Perry was there. Carney! Carney!

Mark Carney spent Easter Sunday in his home riding of Nepean. At an outdoor rally before hundreds of Liberal supporters, Carney rhymed off a now familiar list of accomplishments. Scrapping the consumer carbon levy, ditching a plan to increase the capital gains tax, and bringing Canada's premiers together in agreeing to bring down inter-provincial trade barriers. We've done a lot. This is one month. I am describing the highlights from one month. Just imagine what the Liberal Party could do with a strong mandate back in... ...in...

Carney kicking off the final days of this campaign with a dig at his main rival, Conservative leader Pierre Polly-Eve. His big idea is to bring back plastic straws this week. It's great. We're really looking forward to it. And a plea to Liberal supporters to pull out all the stops between now and election day. Tom Perry, CBC News, Ottawa. As for Pierre Poliev, he's talking about where he would reduce

spending to axe what he calls the inflation tax. JP Tasker was at Poliev's campaign stop in Surrey, BC. Yesterday we learned that Mark Carney is far more costly than Justin Trudeau. Conservative leader Pierre Poliev 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 a thousand dollars 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, B.C. Earlier, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh was 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. In other news Pope Francis made a surprise appearance today in St. Peter's Square although he was still too unwell to lead Easter celebrations. Before greeting crowds the pope had a brief meeting with the U.S. vice president. Megan Williams has more from Rome. I know you've not been feeling great, but it's good to see you. US Vice President J.D. Vance greeting Pope Francis today at the Pope's Vatican guesthouse. The brief photo-op where they exchanged Easter greetings and gifts came a day after Vance met with senior Vatican officials to discuss, among other things, migration. Vance and the

Pope have clashed publicly on that, with Francis calling the U.S. crackdown a disgrace and criticizing Vance's use of Christian theology to justify it. After meeting Vance, a Catholic convert, the Pope stepped onto the St. Peter's balcony to wish the crowds a happy Easter. But he was too frail to lead mass or deliver his traditional Urbi at Urbi. Instead, a Vatican official read his political message, calling for a Gaza ceasefire, food for the starving, peace across war-torn nations, and protection of migrants. The Pope then toured St. Peter's Square in his Pope-mobile to the delight of the crowd.

Megan Williams, CBC News, The Vatican. And finally, the Stanley Cup Playoffs resumed tonight with a high-profile matchup. The Toronto Maple Leafs hosting the Ottawa Senators. Coverage on CBC TV begins an hour from now. Earlier, Team Canada fell to Team USA in the Women's World Hockey Championship. The game was tied going into overtime when the U.S. scored the winning goal. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Kate Rutherford.