The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/01 at 20:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 2, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/01 at 20:00 EDT

Café William wants to know, what's your favorite roast? We're touring selected Metro grocers across Ontario. Come by for a tasting and find the brew that's just right for you. It's the perfect moment for great coffee. For more info, go to CaféWilliam.com. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Stephanie Scanderres. 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 hospitalizations, 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. Canada's auto industry will avoid new American tariffs set to kick in this weekend. U.S. Customs and Border Protection says auto parts that are compliant with Kuzma will be

exempt from the 25 percent levies. That includes most of the parts Canada ships to the U.S. President Donald Trump has recently made concessions after the big three automakers warned the tariffs will hurt the industry. Alberta is taking Ottawa to court. It says federal clean electricity regulations infringe on provincial jurisdiction. Those regulations are designed to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from power generation by 2050. Raffy Pujakian 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. Raffy Boutique-Anion, 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. Most other provinces currently ban cell phones in classrooms, but not from all school property. The National Security Advisor to the White House is being reassigned.

Mike Waltz will become the U.S. ambassador to the UN. 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 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 leader Volodymyr Zelensky is praising the Minerals Deal his country signed with the U.S. last night.

Zelensky says the finished 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.