The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/01 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 1, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/01 at 16:00 EDT

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From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Stephanie Scanderis. It is a concerning new spike in cases in a measles outbreak already without precedent. Ontario is reporting 223 new infections in the past week alone. And the number of regions affected is also on the rise. Alison Northcott reports. That's the largest single-week increase since the outbreak began. Dr. Sarah Wilson with Public Health Ontario says the province added more than 200 new measles cases in the past week, bringing the outbreaks total to more than 1200 since January.

Health officials say the continued spread is mainly among people who have not been immunized and many of them are children. It is a challenge to our health system. We have, you know, 84 hot civilizations, seven people who've required ICU care. Cases are also touching more parts of the province, including Ottawa, but the outbreak remains concentrated in southwestern Ontario. Health officials in Alberta say lower vaccination rates are also fueling an outbreak there,

with 170 cases reported as of Wednesday. Alison Northcott, CBC News, Montreal. The election result in the Quebec riding of Terbonne has changed. 170 cases reported as of Wednesday. Alison Northcott, CBC News, Montreal. The election result in the Quebec riding of Terrebonne has changed. The original count gave it to the Liberals by 35 votes. A recount gives it to the Bloc Québécois by 44 votes. That means the Liberals now have 168 seats, four short of a majority. The Bloc now has 23.

Alberta is taking Ottawa to court. It says federal clean electricity regulations are an infringement on provincial jurisdiction. Those regulations are designed to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from power generation by 2050. Rafi Bouchicanean has more. If Ottawa had its way Albertans would be left to freeze in the dark. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith saying the federal government can hardly expect an overnight switch to clean electricity for her province. Hospitals would be overwhelmed by the influx of patients suffering from heat stroke. In fact Ottawa has already pushed back the timeline for achieving net zero grids by 15

years all the way to 2050. But that delay is not enough for Smith. She's challenging the constitutionality of the regulations at her province's court of appeal. Alberta will no longer tolerate having our livelihoods threatened. The legal challenge comes as Prime Minister Mark Carney comes off an election campaign where he has promised to work with provinces and territories, but also failed to make any gains for the federal liberals in Alberta, where the party's representation was reduced to a single seat.

Rafi Bidjikani on CBC News, Ottawa. Quebec plans a complete ban on cell phones and other electronic devices in schools. It's a key recommendation from a committee that looked at the impact of screen time on young people. With this move, Quebec is going further than any other jurisdiction in Canada. Most provinces currently ban cell phones in classrooms but not from schools. The ban will take effect in September. The National Security Advisor to the White House is being reassigned. Mike Walz will become the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. His job has been in jeopardy ever since the Signal fiasco.

Waltz had mistakenly added a journalist to a group chat used to discuss plans to bomb Houthi targets in Yemen. Replacing him temporarily is U.S. top diplomat Marco Rubio. State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce calls it good news. The president makes perfect assessments about who would implement his agenda and in this case he has chosen certainly the secretary and Mr. Walz to facilitate his agenda moving forward. Politicians and defense officials had criticized Walz for what they called a breach of national

security. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is praising the minerals deal his country signed with the US last night. Zelensky says the Finnish deal is the result of the meeting he had with Donald Trump during the Pope's funeral at the Vatican. He calls it an equal and fair agreement that opens the way for Ukraine's industrial modernization. The White House says the deal gives the U.S. an economic stake in Ukraine's future. And that is your World This Hour.

For CBC News, I'm Stephanie Scanderis.