The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/02 at 06:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 2, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/02 at 06:00 EDT

In the summer of 2019, Scott Payne wanted to join a white supremacist group called The Base. But Scott wasn't a neo-Nazi or a right-wing extremist. He was an FBI agent. They hit me back and said, we'd like to have you. And of course I said yes. I'm Kathleen Goltar and this week on Crime Story, Scott takes me into his 28-year career as an undercover operative. Find Crime Story wherever Scott takes me into his 28-year career as an undercover operative. Find Crime Story wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. With a group of Canadian veterans on hand and center stage, the Netherlands is commemorating

the 80th anniversary of the country's second World War liberation from Nazi Germany. Among the veterans, the youngest is 96, the oldest 105. Chris Brown has more now from Appledorn. Their bodies are frail, but the Canadian veterans who stepped off the bus or were helped off in wheelchairs brought big smiles and firm handshakes to Appledorn. Among them, 101-year-old George Morash,

a machine gunner who was wounded in France. I was here for the liver. 102-year-old George Brewster was a Spitfire pilot who flew over 60 missions during the war. In total, Veterans Affairs says more than 7,600 Canadians were killed liberating the Netherlands. Many of them were buried in a cemetery near Grossbeek where later today there will be a ceremony of commemoration

The veterans will also be celebrated at street parades in Appledorn and at Wachingen Where a Canadian general accepted the surrender of Nazi forces in the Netherlands eight decades ago Chris Brown CBC News in Appledorn Prime Minister Mark Carney will outline the immediate priorities of his new government later this morning, just four days after Canadians voted in the Liberals for a fourth mandate. Carney has promised to move immediately to address ongoing trade tensions with the United States, and he spoke by telephone on Tuesday with President Donald Trump. Trump says the two will be meeting in Washington within the next week, although the PMO has

yet to confirm that. In honor of last weekend's street festival tragedy in Vancouver, today is an official day of mourning in British Columbia. Among other services, a public memorial is scheduled for downtown Vancouver. Eleven people were killed last Saturday night when an SUV was driven into a crowd attending a Filipino festival. Another 20 were injured. A suspect was taken into custody at the scene and at this point has been charged with eight

counts of second-degree murder. Ontario's spring black bear hunt begins this week and while it's big tourism business, it's also controversial with animal advocates saying the bear hunt is unsustainable. New research is showing that bear populations are declining. And Ayat Singh has more. Black bear population numbers are really a social sort of decision. Scientist Joe Northrup studies bears for the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. He says black bear populations in the provinces north near Sudbury and Thunder Bay

have declined significantly since 2010. We want to make sure that there's black bears around for all the different social values and cultural values and ecological values that they provide. But the data showing population declines is only part of the puzzle. Mark Rickman is a wildlife biologist with the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters. We need to decide how many bears we want in an area as a society to determine whether or not any of those declines are of a concern.

The spring bear hunt brings in as much as $50 million for the tourism sector, but is divisive because it's when mother bears have young cubs and are vulnerable. The Ontario government said no changes are planned to the hunt this year in IIT Sing, CBC News, Toronto. Two Canadian teams advanced last night to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Two on his birthday for William Nylander and the Leafs headed to round two. That's the Toronto Maple Leafs eliminating the Ottawa Senators last night in game six of their opening round series. The Leafs now move on to face the Florida Panthers in round two. And then there's the Edmonton Oilers.

That's the hometown crowd savoring the last second goal by Oilers winger Connor Brown that seals their 6-4 victory over the LA Kings and punches their ticket into the second round where the Oilers will be facing the Vegas Golden Knights. And that is the World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.