The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/25 at 18:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 25, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/25 at 18:00 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 this hour, I'm Juliane Hazelwood. Liberal leader Mark Carney spent the last Friday of the campaign in Ontario, where his party thinks it can take seats from conservatives and new Democrats. Carney is arguing that he's the best to deal with Donald Trump's tariffs and threats. Tom Perry reports. I'm going to talk a lot about steel. I'm going to talk a lot about building and a lot about the future. Mark Carney at the Algoma Steel Plant in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, ground zero in Donald Trump's trade war. We will stand with every single Canadian worker targeted by President Trump's attacks on our country.

Carney has positioned himself as a calm, experienced leader with a plan to defend Canada against Trump's tariffs and threats to Canadian sovereignty, dismissing Conservative leader Pierre Paliéve as the wrong person at the wrong time. He's ignoring the investments we need to build the strongest economy that works for everyone. The liberal leader leaning into that message in the final days of the campaign as voters begin taking one last look at the parties, the leaders, and the choices on offer.

Tom Perry, CBC News, Vaughan, Ontario. Conservative leader Pierre Polyev says he'll launch what he calls 100 days of change if he's the next prime minister. He's promising to cancel MP summer holidays so parliament can pass key pieces of legislation. He says it will make life more affordable, stop crime and strengthen the economy. Are we really going to let Mark Carney distract from the inflation, crime, rising housing costs that liberals would continue to deliver. No. We have to choose hope over fear. We have to

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We want to take better care of each other. So it motivates you in a very different way. And I'm surrounded by an incredible team of people that believe in this, that believe that we can build a better world together. Much of the liberal surge in the polls comes at the expense of the NDP and Bloc Québécois. A new jury has been selected for the case against five former World Junior hockey players accused of sexual assault. A London, Ontario judge declared a mistrial this morning, dismissing the previous jury. The highly unusual move

comes shortly after court proceedings began Tuesday. Karen Pauls has the details. The jury had just started hearing evidence in this high-profile sexual assault case when something happened, resulting in the decision to declare a mistrial. The reasons for that are under a publication ban. The jurors are now dismissed. Essentially, you drop the mic, you're done, everyone's gone. Nick Cake is a former Crown attorney in London, Ontario, now a local defense lawyer. He's not a part of this case, but is following it closely.

Cake says the decision is about preserving the integrity of a fair trial. It's not a conspiracy, it's not a cover-up, it's how the justice system works and it is there to ensure that all parties in the justice system can get their day in court but can get their day in court fairly. A new jury of nine women and five men has already been selected with hopes a new trial can start on Monday. Karen Polz, CBC News, London, Ontario. Russia is blaming Ukraine for a car bombing that killed a Russian army general near Moscow.

A Kremlin spokesperson did not provide proof and Ukraine has not commented on the attack. Three other top military officials have died in similar attacks in Moscow and St. Petersburg since 2023. Today's bombing happened a short time before U.S. Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff met with President Vladimir Putin in the Capitol. The Kremlin says they discussed the possibility of direct talks between Ukraine and Russia. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.