The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/02 at 19:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 2, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/02 at 19:00 EDT

1942, Europe. Soldiers find a boy surviving alone in the woods. They make him a member of Hitler's army. But what no one would know for decades, he was Jewish. Could a story so unbelievable be true? I'm Dan Goldberg. I'm from CBC's personally, Toy Soldier. Available now wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Dave Seglands. The woman accusing five former World Junior hockey players of sexual assault testified

today. The case revolves around a night in June of 2018 at a bar and a hotel in London, Ontario. All five players have pleaded not guilty. Jamie Strashan has the latest and a warning some of the details are explicit. Michael McLeod, Dylan Dubay, Carter Hart, Cal Foote and Alex Formaton were all members of the gold medal winning team at the 2018 World Junior Hockey Tournament in London for a Hockey Canada gala celebrating the victory. The alleged victim, known as EM, testified she was out with friends and met the players

at a bar where she consumed multiple drinks including at least eight shots, mostly with McLeod who she had never met before. I was less aware of my surroundings mentally I just felt all over the place,' she told the court. She testified the players circled around her on the dance floor, moving her hands to touch their crotch areas. "'It felt really claustrophobic, but I'm really drunk at this point,' she testified. Later, she would leave the bar and have sex with McCloud at his hotel. That act is not the focus of the trial.

Court has heard.' he then texted teammates. The Crown says EM did not consent to the alleged sexual acts that followed. Her testimony continues Monday. Jamie Strash in CBC News, London, Ontario. The man charged with multiple murders in a deadly vehicle crash in Vancouver appeared in court this afternoon. Thirty-year-old Kai G. Adam Lowe is charged with second-degree murder in an incident that last weekend that killed 11 people. The judge agreed to a request by Lowe's lawyer for a mental health assessment to determine whether his client is fit to stand trial. Today BC is marking an official day of mourning for the victims. Prime Minister Mark Carney told a news

conference in Ottawa today that he'll recall Parliament beginning May 26th. And King Charles has accepted an invitation to visit Canada to deliver the official speech from the throne. Among other pieces of business announced today, Carney says he is confirmed to travel to Washington next Tuesday for his first face-to-face meeting with the US President Donald Trump. I go there with the expectation of constructive, difficult but constructive discussions. That's the spirit. Carney says he plans to discuss tariffs but also the broader trade and security relationship between the two

countries. Meanwhile the Prime Minister says he will move quickly to allow Pierre Poliev to seek a seat in the House of Commons. The Conservative leader lost his Ottawa area riding in Monday's vote, but Alberta MP Damien Couric says he'll give up his seat of Battle River Crowfoot to make way for Poliev. Conservatives won that riding, 82 percent of the vote there. Prime Minister Mark Carney promised to call a by-election sooner rather than later. I've already indicated to Mr. Poliev that if it's the decision of him and the Conservative Party to trigger, if I can put it that way, a by-election, I will ensure that it happens

as soon as possible. No games, nothing, straight. Damien Couric will need to be sworn in as an MP before he can then officially resign his seat. Oshawa Ontario is reeling from news that General Motors is laying off 700 people. GM says it's cutting one shift in response to what it calls the evolving trade environment. Unifor national president Lana Payne accuses the auto maker of trying to appease US President Donald Trump. Payne is urging Ottawa to apply pressure on automakers.

The reality is you get to sell here, you need to build here. And that message, I believe, has to be delivered by the Prime Minister to these automakers. They do not get to squeeze Canadian workers in this trade war. Next week, the Stellantis assembly plant in Windsor is pausing operation for one week. And finally, NPR, the main public broadcaster in the US, is vowing to fight the US president after Donald Trump ordered a cut to all of its federal funding. Trump signed an executive order ending all funding for both NPR and PBS. US public broadcasting has been threatened

frequently by Republican leaders in the past but this is seen as the most serious in the system's history. And that is Your World This Hour. I'm Dave Seglins.