The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/24 at 18:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/24 at 18:00 EDT

When a body is discovered 10 miles out to sea, it sparks a mind-blowing police investigation. There's a man living in this address in the name of a deceased. He's one of the most wanted men in the world. This isn't really happening. Officers are finding large sums of money. It's a tale of murder, skullduggery and international intrigue. So who really is he? I'm Sam Mullins and this is Sea of Lies from CBC's Uncovered, available now.

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 1,000 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 1,000 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. Janna Friun, 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. Liberal leader Mark Carney is facing new questions

about his March phone call with the US president. At the time both leaders called the conversation constructive and productive. But now Carney confirms Trump raised the idea of Canada becoming the 51st state. Tom Perry has more. Just yesterday, President Trump repeated his attacks on Canada. Liberal leader Mark Carney rejecting Donald Trump's latest call

for Canada to become America's 51st state while acknowledging an earlier outburst by the US president. He absolutely did. Carney now confirms what was originally reported by Radio Canada, that Trump raised the 51st state idea during their call last month. At the time, Carney said Trump respected Canada's sovereignty during their conversation and maintains that's true. Look, the president says lots of things,

but the essence of the discussion and where we move the conversation to was exactly what I said. Carney says he and Trump agreed that after the election, the president and prime minister, whoever that is, would sit down to discuss Canada-U.S. relations as two sovereign nations. Tom Perry, CBC News, Vancouver. Newfoundland and Labrador and New Brunswick have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore how to bring down interprovincial trade barriers. It includes pending legislation to recognize trade credentials granted in each other's provinces.

New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt. Any credential that you hold in Newfoundland, you can bring to New Brunswick and get to work on day one of landing in our province. That's legislation that Premier Fury was the first to pass and now we have it in our house going through. Premier Andrew Fury says they're not stopping there. And the Premier and I have been talking for quite some time about how we can extend that similar philosophy, that similar strategy to other professional designations. Holt says that provinces and territories are re-evaluating all regulations that make it difficult to trade with Canada.

Pakistan has closed its airspace to Indian airlines following Tuesday's deadly shooting in Kashmir. It also suspended peace accords with its nuclear-armed neighbour. 26 people were killed after four gunmen opened fire at a popular tourist spot in the disputed region. Islamabad has denied any involvement. New Delhi is calling the incident an act of cross-border terrorism. And police say two of the suspects

were Pakistani citizens. India has closed its main land border with Pakistan and paused a water sharing treaty. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazel Wood.