The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/01 at 18:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 1, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/01 at 18:00 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. Allysa 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 1,200 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 nearly 200 reported cases. 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 Boujikanean 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 heatstroke. 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 Boutry-Canyon, CBC News, Ottawa. Quebec plans a complete ban on cell phones and other electronic devices in schools. The province says screens are too often the trigger for bullying and violence during class hours. The ban will take effect in September. With it, Quebec is going further on no cell phone rules than any other jurisdiction in Canada.

The National Security Advisor to the White House is being reassigned. Mike Walz will become the U.S. Ambassador to the UN. His job has been in jeopardy ever since that signal fiasco. Walz 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 and Mr. Waltz to facilitate his agenda moving forward politicians and defense officials had criticized Waltz 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 we were really Donald Trump 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. But it's not clear if it'll help secure peace in the U.S. an economic stake in Ukraine's future, but it's not clear if it'll help secure peace in the region. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Stephanie Scandaris.