The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/22 at 11:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 22, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/22 at 11:00 EDT

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I'm Joe Cummings. With less than a week left in the election campaign, Conservative leader Pierre Polyev is rolling out his party's official platform. It is a plan that will lower taxes and debt by getting rid of bureaucracy, consulting fees, waste, and excessive foreign aid to dictators, terrorists, and global bureaucracy. It is a plan to build homes by removing taxes and bureaucracy. It is a plan for safe streets by locking up criminals for a change. As Poliev campaigning this morning in the greater Toronto area. The Conservative platform forecasts a $31 billion debt deficit this year, but it's promising

to bring that down significantly with more than $20 billion in government spending cuts over the next four years. The Conservatives are the last of the major parties to release their spending plan. Still with the Conservative campaign, the party is making a late pitch for the senior vote, which is telling considering that traditionally, Canadian seniors often lean Conservative. Kate McKenna has more.

That might surprise you, but I have not decided. Gail Brown says her vote is still up for grabs. The Toronto senior says she's been paying close attention to the campaign. Yesterday she heard Conservative leader Pierre Poliev speak to the Canadian Association of Retired Persons. Well, he's made quite a few mistakes. And one of them is constantly shooting down the other party and saying the same things over and over again.

In the final days of the race, Poliev is making his pitch to seniors. He released a new ad targeting baby boomers and yesterday in Toronto he spoke to CARP members in a town hall. Conservatives will preserve the age of retirement for CPP, OAS and GIS at age 65 period. Polls show his rival liberal leader Mark Carney is leading in senior support. Seniors represent a powerful voting bloc, in part because they're a demographic that reliably shows up to vote. Kate McKenna, CBC News, Mississauga, Ontario. Jury selection is getting underway today in London, Ontario, in the trial of five former

World Junior Hockey players. Each of the players is charged in connection to an alleged sexual assault dating back to June of 2018. At the time, the team was in the city for a hockey Canada gala celebrating its gold medal victory at that year's World Juniors. The Vatican has announced that the funeral for Pope Francis will be held on Saturday morning at St. Peter's Basilica. The public viewing for the late pope gets underway at the Basilica starting tomorrow, and today, Catholics around the world are in mourning. Crystal Gamansing has more. In Manila, there's unity in sorrow.

I cried. I cried a lot. There are more than 80 million Catholics in the Philippines. Here, like many places around the world, people are pausing to remember Pope Francis, including Filipino Cardinal Pablo Vajillo David. The legacy of Pope Francis is not to take ourselves too seriously, not to stay on a pedestal. Come down, be human. In Sydney, Archbishop Anthony Fisher offered parishioners comfort, acknowledging the years they had

with Pope Francis and all he taught them. We join the church throughout the world in marking the passing of our Holy Father. Austin Ivory co-wrote the book Let Us Dream with Pope Francis during the pandemic. He made people feel loved, special, dignified. Ivory says he fostered a more human, more humble church and anticipates the next pope will continue on that path. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, London. Two lawsuits filed this week in Los Angeles are alleging that 25 insurance companies have

colluded to limit their coverage in a number of California communities recently devastated by wildfires. The lawsuit alleges that the insurers, which includes giants such as State Farm, are part of an illegal scheme that forces homeowners to take the most basic coverage at high premiums. The insurers named in the lawsuit control more than 75 percent of California's home insurance market. And that is the World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.