The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/30 at 20:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 1, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/30 at 20:00 EDT

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at cfpc.ca slash no substitute. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Claude Fahy. We begin in British Columbia. This will be a day for all British Columbians to reflect on the loss of life of innocent people. Friday is being declared a day of mourning in BC, says Premier David Eby.

A car ramming over the weekend killed 11 people at a Filipino festival. Eby says the province will start reviewing how it can expand mental health supports. And that includes increasing the capacity of beds for patients in crisis and reforming the mental health act. The pledge comes after Vancouver's Mayor Ken Sim urged the provincial and federal governments to act. The mental health crisis is not just a health crisis. It has become a public safety crisis. The suspect had been under the care of a mental health team and on leave from hospital. He's charged with several counts of second-degree murder. In Washington, I spoke to him yesterday.

He couldn't have been nicer. President Donald Trump says he congratulated Prime Minister Mark Carney on his electoral victory during their phone call yesterday and says Carney will come to the White House within the next week for further economic talks. And he says the Prime Minister is looking to make a deal. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke by phone to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today. According to the PMO, Carney reiterated Canada's support for Ukraine to achieve long-lasting

peace and security. The two leaders also agreed that Ukraine must be at the table to achieve any durable peace. Zelensky also congratulated Carney on his electoral victory Monday night. The United States and Ukraine have signed a landmark agreement on critical minerals. It will give the U.S. the access to natural resources in exchange for American investments. The deal comes just days after Vladimir Zelensky and Donald Trump sat down face to face in Italy following the funeral of Pope Francis. Briar Stewart breaks down the deal. We know this was a contentious deal that they had been negotiating for months, and I think

there's a few key takeaways here. For one, in this deal, the U.S. is not going to get control over any of Ukraine's minerals or natural resources. Ukraine is going to maintain full ownership. They will both be contributing to the fund, and the fund will receive money from new resource extraction projects. And so these are projects that Ukraine can decide on. Revenue generated from the fund will then be either invested in new projects or into

reconstruction efforts in Ukraine. And certainly we know there is a big need there. The US can contribute military aid. It could give missile defense systems. But there's no specific requirements for it. And I think that's the big question. Will military aid, U.S. military aid keep flowing to Ukraine, and will it flow at the same rate that it has been all this time?

Briar Stewart, CBC News, London. 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 US U.S. jurisdictions require. Jamie Strash in CBC News, Toronto. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.