The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/21 at 02:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/21 at 02:00 EDT

When they predict we'll fall, we rise to the challenge. When they say we're not a country, we stand on guard. This land taught us to be brave and caring, to protect our values, to leave no one behind. Canada is on the line and it's time to vote as though our country depends on it. Because like never before, it does. I'm Jonathan Pedneau, co-leader of the Green Party of Canada. This election, each vote makes a difference. Authorized by the Registeredleader of the Green Party of Canada. This election, each vote, makes a difference. Authorized by the Registered Agent of the Green Party of Canada.

From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neal Herland. With one week left in the election campaign, Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet is predicting Mark Carney and the Liberals have sealed the deal. Tonight on the Radio-Canada TV show Tout le Monde en Parle, he predicted the outcome of the federal vote. Rafi Boujikhanian has more. Here is the chief of Bloc Québécois, Yves-François Blanchet.

Tout le Monde en Parle is an institution in Quebec. Up to a million viewers a week tune into the popular Radio-Canada talk show. An audience bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet is still hoping to capture. Even as he tells them it's pretty clear Liberal Mark Carney, his chief rival in the vote-rich province, will end up Prime Minister. As predictions go, it's a lot less bold than the one Blanchet made at the start of the 2021 campaign, that he would send 40 MPs to parliament, more than half the number of seats available in this province.

Polls suggest the bloc could lose up to 10 seats in this election. Blanchet saying he could still be efficient with fewer MPs, but hopes to make a couple of gains with one last prediction. Oh my god, it's not going to be a speech of resignation. He very much doubts he will resign after election night. Raphael Bouducan, the NCBC News, Quebec City. And on Easter Monday, Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet will be in Quebec City. Conservative leader Pierre Polyev will hold a news conference in Toronto.

Liberal leader Mark Carney has campaign events in all three maritime provinces with appearances in Charlottetown, Fredericton and Truro, Nova Scotia. And NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is on Vancouver Island before ending his day in the lower mainland of B.C. The New York Times is reporting another bombshell story involving the U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The Times says he created a second chat group on the messaging service Signal, where he

apparently shared details of a March military airstrike against Houthi militants in Yemen with his own family. Sabrina Singh is a former deputy press secretary at the Pentagon. I mean, it's truly shocking. I think when I saw this reporting coming out from the New York Times at first, you know, there was no question there were going to be more signal threads. This one in particular was started by Pete Hegseth and for him to add, you know, his wife, his brother, his personal attorney, people that don't need access or need to know about classified information,

about operations involving the Houthis in any way, I mean, this is something that we would never do under a previous administration. The White House and current Pentagon press team have not commented on the latest story tonight. Hegseth previously said that no classified information on war plans were shared in the first group chat that was seen by a journalist. While it was a heartbreak on the ice, Team Canada couldn't repeat last year's gold medal win at the Women's World Hockey Championship. Their longtime rival, Team USA, beat them 4-3, Ed Kleiman reports. Zardachmi shot, she scores!

After erasing a 2-0 deficit in the middle of the second period, and scoring a late third period goal to tie the game at 3, Team Canada could not avoid heartbreak in overtime when American forward Tessa Janicki flipped the puck past Canadian goalie Anne-Renee Desbiens. Her shot, she scores! Tessa Janicki! It's the 11th world title for the US, now just two back of Canada's 13. While Team Canada captain Marie-Philippe Plain was named the most valuable player of the tournament, American captain Hilary Knight became the first player ever to win 10 world

championships. Oh man, this is such a special group and I'd go to battle with any of these women. You know, that's what keeps us all coming back. The next meeting for these arch rivals will be on the biggest stage of all at the Winter Olympics in Italy 10 months from now when Canada will try to defend the title they won in Beijing three years ago. Ed Kleiman for CBC News, Kingston, Ontario. And finally in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

And the horn sounds. The Toronto Maple Leafs won Game 1 of their first round series against the Ottawa Senators. Final score 6-2. Game 2 is Tuesday. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neal Herland.