The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/25 at 20:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 26, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/25 at 20:00 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 Julianne Hazelwood. Liberal leader Mark Carney is campaigning in Vote Rich Ontario today. He's hammering away at the argument that he's the best place to stand up to US President Donald Trump and to lead the country through profound economic change Unlike Pierre Poliev I've managed budgets before I've managed economies before I've managed crises before This is a time for experience not experiments

America wants our land our our resources, our water, our country, and we will fight them. Carney is stopping in cities in the manufacturing heartland of Canada, pledging to protect Canadian workers and businesses from the Trump tariffs. Conservative leader Pierre Polyev says he will launch what he calls 100 days of change if he's elected the next prime minister. He's promising to cancel MP summer holidays so Parliament can pass key pieces of legislation. He says it'll 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 choose change. Paul Yeva's campaigning in Saskatchewan and Alberta, traditionally solid conservative seats. Polls now suggest some urban ridings in the provinces could swing to the liberals. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is campaigning in Ontario, pushing his argument that if voters send enough Democrats to the House of Commons, it will ensure another minority government. Today Singh was asked if he regretted not bringing down the Liberal government sooner.

Our party is based on a movement of lifting up people. We're not in it for the power only. We're in it to find power so that we can use it to make people's lives better. 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. A 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.

The man accused of murdering the CEO of America's largest private health insurer has pleaded not guilty. Luigi Mangione is federally charged with stalking, gun offenses and murder. The 26-year-old also faces state charges to which he has also pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors allege Mangione shot and killed Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel in broad daylight last year. Prosecutors have indicated they intend to seek the death penalty. A judge in Wisconsin is charged with helping an undocumented migrant evade arrest. The FBI accuses Hannah Dugan of obstructing the enforcement of the Trump administration's immigration policies. It alleges Dugan directed federal agents away from the courtroom.

Speaking to Fox News, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi says judges are not above the law. If you are harboring a fugitive, we don't care who you are, anyone who is illegally in this country, we will come after you and we will prosecute you. Duggan's attorney says the judge wholeheartedly regrets and protests her arrest. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.