The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/24 at 21:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 25, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/24 at 21:00 EDT

When they predict we'll fall, we rise to the challenge. When they say we're not a country, we stand on guard. This land taught us to be brave and caring, to protect our values, to leave no one behind. Canada is on the line and it's time to vote as though our country depends on it. Because like never before, it does. I'm Jonathan Pedneau, co-leader of the Green Party of Canada. This election, each vote makes a difference. Authorized by the Registeredleader of the Green Party of Canada. This election, each vote makes a difference. Authorized by the registered agent of the Green Party of Canada.

From CBC News, the world is sour. I'm Neil Kumar. With just days to go in the federal election campaign, Mark Carney continues to position himself as the best leader to confront US President Donald Trump. But a conversation the two men had last month and how Carney described it has his opponents questioning his honesty. Cameron McIntosh has more. Who can stand up to President Trump? Liberal leader Mark Carney in British Columbia, insisting as he has, he's the leader to deal with Donald Trump.

While also facing repeated questions about their first and only phone call after new reporting by Radio Canada. Did the president bring up the idea of Canada becoming the 51st state during that call with you? The president brings this up all the time. He brought it up yesterday, he's brought it up before. That call came after weeks of Trump taking shots at Canada. Carney said he would only talk to Trump on respectful terms, as sovereign leaders. No mention of Trump referring to Canada as the 51st state. Today,

Carney stood by that. The president says lots of things, but the essence of the discussion was exactly what I said. Treated us with respect as a sovereign nation. On the campaign trail, his opponents accused him of being misleading. For what Carney says he told the president about the 51st state that it will never happen Cameron McIntosh CBC News Ottawa conservative leader Pierre Poliev is accusing the liberals of planning to hike the price of gas-powered vehicles he's blaming incentives aimed at phasing out the sale of combustion engine

vehicles by 2035 and I'm talking about what Mark Carney calls the zero emissions vehicle mandate. Starting next year, if a company sells even one car over the government imposed quota, they will face a $20,000 per vehicle tax, which will obviously be passed on to consumers. The Liberals did establish a set of regulations in 2023. It involved giving companies tax credits for building electric and hybrid vehicles and charging stations. Those credits could be used to build gas-powered vehicles or traded on the open market. Concordia and McGill universities have won a partial legal victory in the fight over Quebec's tuition hike for out-of-province students.

A court decision calls a 33 percent tuition increase in French language requirements unreasonable. The judge gave the province nine months to revise the fee structure. Concordia president Graham Carr says he's relieved. And I think this is an opportunity for universities, including ours, but other universities in Quebec hopefully to sit down with the government and hit the reset button. The tuition hike was part of the provinces measures to protect the French language. The judge did leave the international student fee increases unchanged. Ontario has added another 95 cases of measles over the past week. The total number of cases has now topped 1,000 since the year began. Alberta is struggling with its own

measles outbreaks, 129 cases reported there since the outbreak began. In a crisis that has been getting worse and worse for years, new data shows drug overdose deaths are now dropping. But as Georgie Smyth reports, health officials aren't celebrating yet. Data from the province shows a decline of 12 per cent over 12 months and no one really knows why. The University of North Carolina's Opioid Data Lab is one place scientists like Nabarun Dasgupta attesting theories. Maybe the drug supply got less toxic or interventions like life-saving opioid reversal drugs and

treatments could be making an impact. Our initial reaction was scepticism. Something is working, they say, but abrupt challenges to the drug supply could threaten that like Canada's tariff-driven fentanyl crackdown. If it becomes hard to get fentanyl, then there will probably be other drugs that flood the market. Sarah Blythe is the executive director of the Overdose Prevention Society. She says actions against fentanyl supply and distribution should be calculated and measured.

Organized crime adapts quickly, it can and has pivoted to create new substances in the past. Georgie Smythe, CBC News, Vancouver. And that is your World is Sour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Kumar.