The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/23 at 14:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 23, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/23 at 14:00 EDT

1942, Europe. Soldiers find a boy surviving alone in the woods. They make him a member of Hitler's army. But what no one would know for decades, he was Jewish. Could a story so unbelievable be true? I'm Dan Goldberg. I'm from CBC's personally, Toy Soldier. Available now wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. In the final few days of the campaign, Pierre Poliev is hitting a familiar theme. The Conservative leader is in Hamilton talking about drugs and crime and his plan to deal

with homeless encampments in cities. The CBC's Cameron McIntosh has more. Speaking in Hamilton, Conservative leader Pierre Poliev again pushing a tough on crime message. This time, homeless encampments. Letting these tent cities spread is not compassion. It is chaos. Polyov is promising to amend the criminal code, giving police more powers to remove encampments and charge people blocking access to public space.

And for those found with illegal drugs, mandatory treatment. And we will allow judges to give them a sentence of drug treatment. The Canadian Mental Health Association says evidence supporting mandatory treatment is inconclusive. Poliev's latest promise comes after an endorsement by the Toronto Police Association. Cameron McIntosh, CBC News, Ottawa. Jagneet Singh is in Edmonton calling for the creation of a national rent control program in the next budget as well as a moratorium on corporate landlords buying affordable homes. We're gonna ban corporations from

buying up affordable homes because that's what they're doing they're looking around saying well where is rent affordable because you know what we could do we could probably triple that rent and make more profit that should not be allowed we have to keep affordable homes affordable. Singh says it's clear Pierre Polyev will not win the election and says electing NDP MPs will prevent Mark Carney from holding all the power. The Crown is delivering opening arguments in the sex assault case involving five former World Junior hockey players. The defendants have all pleaded not guilty. Karen Pauls is at the trial.

Assistant Crown Attorney Heather Donkers provided a timeline of what happened the night of June 18th, 2018, when the woman, known under a publication ban as E.M., met some of the World Junior's hockey team at a London bar. Donkers says surveillance video will show E will show EM dancing with Michael McCloud, having eight drinks then leaving for consensual sex in his hotel room. Donker says that sexual act is not in question, it's what's alleged to have happened next. She says McCloud invited some of his teammates to his room for three-way sex.

Donker alleges each of the five men accused had sexual contact without her voluntary agreement to each act that took place. Donkers says there are two videos taken by McLeod towards the end of the night, where E.M. made broad statements that it was all consensual, as well as text messages about how to make the events of the night go away. E.M. could take the stand later this week to give her testimony and be cross-examined by lawyers for each of the five men.

Karen Pauls, CBC News, London, Ontario. US stocks are rising again after the Trump administration moved to strike a more conciliatory tone in its global trade war. The president says he has no intention of firing the chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, who he has criticized repeatedly. It's a prospect that rattled an already volatile trading market. And Treasury Secretary Scott Besson says a trade deal with China could be in the works. Scott Besson, U.S. Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, U.S. Secretary of State

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Office workers run outside in panic as a 6.2 magnitude earthquake rattles in Istanbul. The quake struck the city of more than 16 million around noon local time. More than 150 people were injured while trying to jump from buildings. It lasted only seconds but was followed by more than 50 aftershocks. The tremors were felt hundreds of kilometers away, but there were no reports of serious damage. And that is the world this hour. For news anytime, visit our website cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.