The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/24 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/24 at 16:00 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 Julianne Hazelwood. There have been more than a thousand detected cases of measles in Ontario since the year began. Public health officials say that's a thousand too many. They're concerned the highly preventable disease may once again

become common in Canada. Jennifer Yoon has the details. Ontario has smashed a grim record. More than a thousand measles cases have been reported this year. Six children have been hospitalized. That's more people sick with measles than in over a quarter century. And that's not even the whole story. Alberta is also struggling with its own measles outbreak. 129 cases reported so far. The more measles there is, the harder it is to control. Dawn Bowditch, an immunologist at McMaster University, is aghast.

Measles is vaccine preventable. That's how Canada eliminated the spread of the virus back in 1998. I'm really worried that we're entering a situation where we're going to lose our status, where we can't say that measles is no longer endemic in Canada. There is no cure for measles. The best prevention is two doses of vaccination, which provides nearly 100% protection. Jennifer Yoon, CBC News, Toronto. A Calgary-based kitchen company has pleaded guilty to multiple charges after an E. coli

outbreak in local daycares. Among the bylaw offences was serving food without a proper license. The incident in 2023 became the province's largest known E. coli outbreak in kids under 5. Hundreds of children fell ill and around 40 were hospitalized. Health officials have said meat and vegan loaf lunches were most likely to blame. 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 U.S. and open new markets for Canadian goods.

Halifax Police Chief Don McLean says officers arrested a teenage boy who threatened to bring weapons to school. I can confirm that the youth was held overnight to appear in court this morning. And we do not believe there was an ongoing threat to the school community, but we do have officers on site today to provide a sense of safety and security. In court, the teen's lawyer revealed he called a suicide hotline last night. The teen threatened to shoot up his school, then take his own life. The operators called the police who arrested the 16 year old in his home.

There investigators found a number of legally obtained weapons. He's facing multiple charges. Donald Trump is publicly voicing his displeasure with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The rare criticism follows a deadly Russian attack in Kiev. 12 people were killed and dozens more injured. Mandy Sham has the latest. We're in the midst of talking peace and missiles were fired and I was not happy with it. Not necessary and badly timed, says the US president, criticizing Russia's deadliest attack on Kiev in nearly a year.

We're putting a lot of pressure on Russia. The rebuke comes a day after Donald Trump lashed out at Ukraine, accusing its president of blocking peace negotiations. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky refused to recognize Crimea as Russian, as one of the reported conditions for a U.S.-proposed ceasefire deal. Moscow annexed the territory illegally in 2014. Trump says both sides have to be serious about peace talks or the U.S. could soon be bowing out.

So we have a deadline and after that we have a, we're going to have a very much different attitude. When asked if the White House would consider fresh sanctions against Russia, Trump said he'd rather answer this time next week. Mandy Sham, CBC News, Toronto. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.