The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/30 at 14:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 30, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/30 at 14:00 EDT

When a body is discovered 10 miles out to sea, it sparks a mind-blowing police investigation. There's a man living in this address in the name of a deceased. He's one of the most wanted men in the world. This isn't really happening. Officers are finding large sums of money. It's a tale of murder, skullduggery and international intrigue. So who really is he? I'm Sam Mullins and this is Sea of Lies from CBC's Uncovered, available now.

From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Claude Fague. Ontario Premier Doug Ford went off this morning on his province's judges. Ford said too many are soft on crime, and even floated the idea of judges having to run for election. Jamie Strashan has more. At an announcement for a new bill on bail reform,

Doug Ford lashed out on Ontario judges, saying many are too lax. You see these criminals getting out on bail, not once or twice, four or five times, and going out and committing heinous crimes. I'm just done with it. The bill also streamlines the process for appointing judges. Ford is promising to appoint people who are what he called tough on crime, and said he's tired of judges putting the brakes on legislation

that voters gave him a mandate to implement. Things like requiring the City of Toronto to take out bike lanes. So, you know, we get democratically elected and some judge slaps an injunction on bike lanes. Don't the judges have anything better to do than worry about if we're taking out bike lanes? Ford says one way to hold judges more accountable is to make them run for election,

as many U.S. jurisdictions require. Jamie Strash in CBC News, Toronto. President Donald Trump says Mark Carney will come to the White House within the next week and he says the Prime Minister is looking to make a deal. Trump also says he congratulated Carney on his electoral victory during their phone call yesterday. The mayor of Vancouver says the city's mental health crisis is now a public safety crisis. Officials are reviewing the circumstances that led to the killing of 11 people at a Filipino festival. A 30-year-old man has been charged with several counts of second-degree murder.

Chris Reyes has the latest. This is incredibly difficult to hear and even harder to accept because it points to a deeper failure in the mental health system. Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim called on the province and the federal government to step up and expand mandatory care for people with severe mental health issues. Sim made an impassioned call to action that goes beyond the public inquiry and independent commission promised by BC Premier David Eby.

How many more times do we have to study this? Come up with another commission. Come up with another report. They're important. Let's come up with action now. Sim said the city is working on its own internal review of what happened. That report will be released in two weeks.

The suspect in the Lapu Lapu festival killings was under the care of a mental health team but was on extended leave from hospital at the time of the attack. Chris Reyes, CBC News, Vancouver. A second Cree community in northern Ontario is being evacuated because of spring flooding. There's a large ice jam on the Albany River. An airlift for residents in Fort Albany will begin today, starting with small children and in home care clients. The nearby Kashatshuan First Nation was evacuated a few weeks ago.

A long anticipated minerals deal between Ukraine and the U.S. could be signed within days. The final details are still being worked out. But a Ukrainian official is on the way to Washington to make the agreement official. Kristal Gmancing has more. The deal will be signed in the nearest future, says Ukraine's prime minister. Dnyshmihal says it's his hope it would be done within 24 hours.

Ukraine has large deposits of graphite, titanium, lithium and other elements classified as rare earth minerals. If the current proposal is accepted, a total of three agreements would be signed. Shmihal says two of them will focus on how a shared minerals resource fund will be created. According to the prime minister, Ukraine will maintain control over all of its natural resources. Kyiv would contribute cash royalties and rents on new projects. And critically, new military aid from the U.S.

can be considered as fund contributions. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, London. And that is Your World This Hour. Remember for news anytime you can visit our website at cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.