The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/30 at 17:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 30, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/30 at 17:00 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 Claude Fague. Just hours before playing an NHL playoff game, Washington Capitals forward Taylor Radish testified via video link at the sexual assault trial of his former World Junior hockey teammates.

He's the first hockey player called as a witness and is not facing any charges. Karen Pauls is in court. Taylor Radish said he and his teammates were at the Hockey Canada Ring Ceremony for winning the 2018 World Junior Hockey Championship. He told court he went to Jack's bar with the team and although he says he wasn't drinking heavily, he can't remember much about what happened that night. Radish does recall going into Michael McLeod's hotel room next door to his. He remembers seeing a woman, probably on the bed, but he doesn't remember if she was dressed. Radish confirms he got text messages from a team group chat involving 19 people.

One of them, sent by McCloud, said, Who wants to be in a three-way quick? In another text, McCloud told Radish to come to his room if he wanted oral sex. In another message about a week later, Radish sent a text saying one of Hockey Canada's staff called him about an investigation. The Crown has previously said the players had a discussion about getting their stories straight in case they were questioned. Karen Pauls, CBC News, London, Ontario. Ontario Premier Doug Ford went off on his province's judges this morning at an announcement on reforming bail system.

Ford said too many judges let violent repeat offenders back into communities just days after they are arrested and accused of serious crimes. 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. Ford also floated the idea of electing judges. He's also calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to toughen federal legislation on bail. The Premier of British Columbia is declaring a province-wide day of mourning this Friday. David Eby says it will allow residents to honor the 11 people killed at a Filipino festival. Eby says the province is also reviewing options on expanding mental health care. A suspect has been charged with several counts

of second degree murder. He's a very nice gentleman, and he's gonna come to the White House very shortly, within the next week or less. That's US President Donald Trump talking about Prime Minister Mark Carney and the phone call the two had yesterday. Trump says Carney wants to negotiate a new agreement.

He called me up yesterday, he said, let's make a deal. He was running for office. They were both, they both hated Trump. And it was the one that hated Trump, I think the least of that one. I actually think the conservative hated me much more than the so-called liberal. He's a pretty liberal guy. But no, I spoke to him yesterday. He couldn't have been nicer.

Yesterday, the prime minister's office said the two discussed comprehensive negotiations about a new economic and security relationship. The White House says it's ready to signal a sign a new deal today that would enable American investment in Ukraine's rare earth minerals. But U.S. officials say Kyiv has presented last-minute changes that could potentially cause delays. Crystal Gomancing has the latest. 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. U.S. President Donald Trump was asked about the deal. It's also good for them because you'll have an American presence at the site and the American presence will and they keep a lot of bad actors out of the country or certainly out of the area where we're doing the digging. So we made a deal and I assume they're going to honor the deal.

Keefe 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. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.