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

Episode Date: April 26, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/26 at 04:00 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. World leaders are in Italy to attend the funeral mass for Pope Francis, which is being held in St. Peter's Square. The CBC's Briar Stewart is there. There are thousands of people, and that's just what I can see. As his casket is carried in, there will be a special group of guests lining the steps, and these will be people who are in need, people living in poverty, given just the Pope's

commitment to those that are marginalized really throughout his entire papacy. And in terms of his decision to be buried in this basilica, it was a very special place for him throughout all of his life. He came here many times during his papacy. He came actually after he was elected pope. He kind of snuck away for a moment of quiet prayer. And we know that in keeping with the rest of his funeral, he wanted a very simple tomb. It's made of marble from northern Italy, where his grandparents

are from. And on top of that tomb is just the name, Franciscus, in Latin. That's the CBC's Briar Stewart in Rome. 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 Paulyev 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.

The new Democrat leader spending the last weekend of the campaign in two vote-rich territories, southern Ontario and BC's Lower Mainland. 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 supply 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 Yavne 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 Thurton, CBC News, Hamilton.

The block came at cost, fighting hard to to hang onto as many seats as it can. The CBC's Arafi-Budger Canyon is on the Bloc's campaign bus. J'espère qu'il y aura des bloquistes. Leader Yves-François 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 Marc Carney an existential threat to Quebec. But Blanchet is still predicting a Carney win. Canada will pick Marc Car 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. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Kumar.