The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/30 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 30, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/30 at 12:00 EDT

1942, Europe. Soldiers find a boy surviving alone in the woods. They make him a member of Hitler's army. But what no one would know for decades, he was Jewish. Could a story so unbelievable be true? I'm Dan Goldberg. I'm from CBC's personally, Toy Soldier. Available now wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Pep Shulpot. Ontario is moving forward with legislation to change the bail system. Premier Doug Ford says the current

system is letting violent repeat offenders back into communities just days after they've been arrested and accused of serious crimes. During today's announcement, Ford took aim at some judges in the province. We need tough on crime judges. You know one of these judges that are bleeding hearts? I can't wait till they retire. Matter of fact, I'll pay him to retire earlier. I'll pay you out for two, three, four years. Just get out of the system. Among the measures included in the legislation is the streamlining of the judicial selection process and improved tracking of repeat offenders.

Ontario is also calling on the new Carney government in Ottawa to adopt tougher requirements for bail. Well, the federal election is over, but not Canada's trade war with the U.S. Prime Minister Mark Carney is supposed to meet with President Donald Trump soon. And if Carney is going to live up to his campaign promises, he'll need to work across party and provincial lines. Janice McGregor is in our Parliamentary Bureau. If you look at the priorities that Mark Carney laid out during this campaign, the need to strengthen Canada's hand by investing in energy, transportation, trade corridors, meeting the

military's needs, building housing, controlling inflation, there aren't vast differences of opinion about the importance of doing all these things urgently. So the negotiations ahead in this parliament and with the premiers are going to be about how, not what. In-person talks with Donald Trump are coming up fast. That should focus minds. And there are essentially eight independent votes in the next House. MPs were elected as new Democrats or Greens. The option is always open to cut deals with them bill by

bill even if nobody wants to sit with the Liberals permanently. And look, even voting together, the Conservative and the Bloc caucuses do not have enough votes to defeat the Liberals. So yes, this is a minority, but it's a big one and it seems durable, at least for a year or two. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. Jonathan Pedneau has stepped down as co-leader of the Green Party. In a statement today, he says he twice failed to win a seat in the House of Commons.

And he's also taking responsibility for not mobilizing the support the Greens needed to reelect Ontario MP Mike Morris. Amid growing tensions, Pakistan claims India is going to launch a military attack over the next day or so. Islamabad says the pretext, which it calls false, is last week's deadly attack in India-administered Kashmir. Twenty-six tourists were killed in the ambush. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been holding a series of security meetings.

Neha Punya has more. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reportedly told his defence minister and the heads of the Navy, Army and Air Force, they have, quote, complete operational freedom to decide on the mode, targets and timing of India's response. Pakistan's information minister Attaullah Tarar has warned that Islamabad will respond if New Delhi carries out strikes. The onus of escalatory spiral and its ensuing consequences shall squarely lie with India. But his leaders spar its people on both sides of the border who are bearing the brunt of

escalating tensions. India and Pakistan have expelled each other's citizens with a land border between the two countries set to close today. India and Pakistan have a long bitter history. The two nuclear armed neighbors have fought three wars and have long sparred over Kashmir, a region they both govern in parts but claim in full. Neha Punia for CBC News, New Delhi. Ukraine says it's poised to sign a crucial mineral deal with the US possibly later today. Donald Trump is pressing for the deal. The US president says he wants Ukraine's rare earth elements as a condition of further American support in Kiev's war with Russia. The minerals are

key ingredients for sophisticated electronic products and they're used in the aerospace and weapons industries, as well as in batteries for electric vehicles. That's your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Pep Fulpot.