The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/04 at 20:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 5, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/04 at 20:00 EDT

In this acclaimed new production of Anna Karenina, the National Ballet of Canada asks, what is fair in love and society? Renowned choreographer Christian Spook adapts Tolstoy's epic novel to dance in a spectacular work complete with lush costumes, cinematic projections, and a glorious curated score, featuring the music of Rachmaninoff. On stage June 13th to 21st, tickets on sale now at national.ballet.ca sponsored by IG Private Wealth Management. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Haselewood. Rainy, foggy weather is hampering

efforts to find two children last seen outside a home in Pictou County, Nova Scotia on Friday morning. Searchers have been out day and night looking for the six-year-old girl and her four-year-old brother. Josh Hoffman has an update. I just spoke to RCMP Staff Sergeant Curtis McKinnon with the Pictou County Detachment. He told me searchers do believe they found a footprint yesterday. A grid has been set up in that area and some of these search efforts are focusing on that grid. Overall the search area is growing as more time passes on but the conditions today are wetter and foggier

than they were yesterday which means the helicopters and the drones involved in the search were grounded. It also means that the conditions are worse for the searchers on the ground. More than 120 people once again today out in the wooded area, out in the area around where the children were last seen, trying desperately to find any sign of Lily and Jack and bring them home safe. Josh Hoffman, CBC News, Lansdowne Station. Universities across the country are facing financial problems because of shrinking enrollment from international students.

Carleton University in Ottawa says it will have to drop half of its contract instructors to address a $32 million financial shortfall. Ryan Conrad teaches at Carleton, and he's also president of the union representing contract instructors and teaching assistants. People don't do this job because it pays well. People do this job because they love teaching. We are struggling to pay our bills

and managing to make it work. I live in a house owned by my partner who bought it before we met. Like, my partner is subsidizing the education of undergraduate students at Carleton University. I could not pay rent in this city working at Carleton as a contract instructor. The new budget was approved by Carleton's Board of Governors last week. A week after a man drove into a crowd at the Lapu Lapu Festival in Vancouver, members of the Filipino community are visiting

survivors in hospital. Volunteers from Filipino BC, the group that organized the festival, have started checking in on victims and their families. RJ Aquino is chair of Filipino BC. We're doing the work to make sure to check in on folks and kind of identify their specific needs. Really start to look after the people that have been physically hurt and impacted by this alongside really everybody else who needs the help. Thirteen people remain in hospital, six of them in critical or serious condition.

Eleven people were killed in the incident. The U.S. president gave a long interview on NBC's Meet the Press. He repeated remarks about Canada becoming the 51st state, but he also addressed issues that Americans are concerned about. Steve Wetterman has more. In a lengthy interview, Donald Trump continued to downplay fears of a significant economic downturn in the U.S. economy as a result of his tariffs.

But he did not completely rule out a recession. Is it OK in the short term to have a recession? Yes, everything's OK. I said this is a transition period. I think we're going to do fantastically. He said the tariffs may force Americans to change their buying habits and again use children's dolls as an example. I don't think a beautiful baby girl that's 11 years old needs to have 30 dolls.

I think they can have three dolls or four dolls. He insisted tariffs are going to make the U.S. very rich. On a pair of issues that may concern U.S. constitutional experts, Trump said he wasn't sure if everyone in the country is entitled to do process in legal matters. And when asked if he's required to uphold the Constitution, he said, I don't know. Steve Futterman for CBC News, Los Angeles. The U.S. president has also announced his latest tariff target, movies. Posting on True Social, Donald Trump says he's authorizing a 100 percent tariff on movies produced outside the U.S.

because he says other countries offer incentives to filmmakers and studios and therefore the U.S. movie industry is suffering. It's unclear how that might affect Canada's film industry. And that is your World This Hour. how that might affect Canada's film industry. And that is your World This Hour. For CDC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.