The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/26 at 00:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 26, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/26 at 00:00 EDT

From CBC News, the world is sour. I'm Neil Kumar. 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 steel, and 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, Vaughn, Ontario.

The new Democrat leader spending the last weekend of the campaign in two vote-rich territories, southern Ontario and B.C.'s lower mainland. He's repeating the message that sending NDP MPs to Ottawa will hold the Liberals to account. David Thurton is covering the NDP campaign. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh says he has no regrets about not toppling the Liberal government to force an election sooner. When the Liberals were polling at their lowest levels under former leader Justin Trudeau. First he said he wanted Canadians to benefit from the programs his party pushed for under its supplyly and Confidence Agreement with the Liberals, for people to actually get dental care and for Ottawa to sign a couple of pharmacare deals.

And finally, at the time, I could not stomach the idea of Pierre-Paul Yavre and the Conservatives forming a majority government. Singh got a bit emotional when asked why he was still dancing on the campaign trail, despite where the polls show his party is at. Singh said life has taught him that when you face struggles, you can either laugh or cry and that you have to have joy in all things. David Thurman, CBC News, Hamilton. The Bloc keep at quads fighting hard to hang on to as many seats as it can, trying to win

back separatists who have been leaning towards the Liberals in the face of Donald Trump's threats. The CBC's Arafi-Boutre Canyon is on the bloc's campaign bus. Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet says he hopes to get bloc MPs elected in this area. The writing itself is a rarity in Quebec, won by a conservative in the last election who then left the party and is not running again. Blanchet also got some last-minute assistance from the popular provincial Parti Québécois leader, who endorsed the bloc in an open letter,

calling Mark Carney an existential threat to Quebec. But Blanchet is still predicting a Carney win. Canada will pick Mark Carney as its prime minister. I can change nothing in that, even if there were 45 MPs from the bloc. So we have to collaborate. Up next for Blanchet, a trip north to Val d'Or, where, like in many places, he's fighting to save a seat from the Liberals. Rafi Boudjikani on CBC News, Victoriaville, Quebec.

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 offences and murder. The 26-year-old 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. 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. Dugan's attorney says the judge wholeheartedly regrets and protests her arrest. And that is your World is Sour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Kumar. Music