The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/24 at 13:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/24 at 13:00 EDT

So Canada, we've got to choose a new prime minister and it's a pretty crucial time. Even people who don't normally follow politics are trying to figure out what the heck is going on. I'm Catherine Cullen, host of The House, and I started a new weekly election show with two friends and fellow political nerds. Hello, I'm Daniel Thibault bringing you the Quebec Point de Vu. I'm Jason Microsoft and Calvary bringing the takes and stakes from the West. Together, we are House Party, a weekly elections podcast for everyone.

We tackle one big burning question every Wednesday. Find us in the House's feed wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. Police have shot and killed a man outside Canada's busiest airport. Early this morning, Peel Regional Police responded to a distress call at Toronto Pearson Airport. They say three officers tried to resolve an argument involving several people in Terminal 1. Police Chief Nishan Duryapa says one man then pulled out a gun and officers responded with force. The subject was shot.

Despite the best efforts of those officers, even to provide life-saving remedies to the individual, as well as paramedics and EMS, I can advise you that a man in his 30s has been pronounced dead. Duryapa says there is no threat to public safety and nothing compromising airport operations. Airport officials say traffic is being rerouted as police continue their investigation. Ontario has added another 95 cases of measles over the past week. The total number of cases has now topped 1,000 since the outbreak began last October. Officials say the majority of cases were in infants and most were not immunized.

Yesterday was more proof, as if any were needed, that the old relationship with the United States is over. Liberal leader Mark Carney, along with other federal leaders, has denounced US President Donald Trump for repeating his idea that Canada should become part of the US. Carney says it's crucial Canada face what he calls the new reality and restructure its economy. This is a time for serious leadership. We can control our economic

destiny with the right plan because in a crisis plan beats no plan. Carney's plan includes using revenues from counter tariffs to support workers and businesses to build supply chains that no longer rely on the US and open new markets for Canadian goods. Pakistan has closed its airspace to Indian airlines after Tuesday's deadly shooting in Kashmir. It's the latest development in the rising tensions between the two neighbours. Twenty-six people were killed in the attack that took place at a popular tourist destination. Ishan Garg has the latest. We will pursue them to the ends of the earth.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowing revenge. In his first public speech since the attack in Pehelgaum, Modi vowed to destroy terrorist hideouts. And also supporters of terrorism, a gesture seemingly aimed at neighbouring Pakistan. Islamabad, meanwhile, is formulating a strategy to counter India's latest move. Delhi has decided to downgrade its diplomatic ties and close its main border with Pakistan. It has also suspended a crucial water treaty, a move that could strain fresh water supply to Islamabad.

All eyes are now on Delhi's next move. Some experts say it could launch a targeted military strike, elevating tension even further. Ishan Garg for CBC News, New Delhi. A recent order by Quebec's language watchdog takes aim at a popular hockey slogan. And as Laura McCallum reports, the move is raising the eyebrows of even the most ardent defenders of the French language. It's a chant heard at all Montreal Canadiens home games. Go Habs Go has even been scrolling across electronic bus banners in Montreal for years.

But Quebec's language watchdog, the OQLF, says it received a complaint that the go is an English word and therefore a no-go under the province's language laws. The city's transit agency, the STM, agreed to translate the popular cheer to Aller canadien, aller on its banners. Quebec's two sovereignist opposition parties, Quebec Salidaire and the Parti Québécois, agree the province has bigger fish to fry to protect the French language. Parti québécois culture and communications critic Catherine Gentilcourt. We've been using GoHabsGo for a hundred years now.

So I think Ali-Canadiens-Ali is good, it's fine. But GoHabsGo is fine too. Quebec's Minister of the French Language, Jean-François Roberge, dodged reporters' questions on the issue and would only say he let the OQLF do its job. Lauren McCallum, CBC News, Montreal. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.