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

Episode Date: May 5, 2025

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

Canadians have plenty of reasons to pay attention right now, but not everyone has a daily news habit. So if you're hoping to build one, we're here to make that really easy. I'm Marcia Young. I'm John Northcott and we host World Report. Give us 10 minutes every morning and we'll give you the biggest stories happening in Canada and around the globe. Whether you're tracking Trump's latest tariff threats, election season in Canada, or how the war in Ukraine is changing, we'll help you understand what's going on. You can find and follow World Report wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour,

I'm Neil Herland. Canada's new Prime Minister faces his first big challenge this week. Mark Carney will meet with US President Donald Trump tomorrow. Conservative House Leader Andrew Scheer says Carney better prove himself. We expect him to deliver on what he promised. He promised Canadians that he could get a deal to lift these tariffs. So that's what we're expecting. We're expecting him to come back with either a deal to lift them all together or a path forward or significant progress. And I think it's fair to hold politicians to the standards that they set.

The meeting will be a chance to reset Canada's relationship with the Trump administration after tensions grew during the Trudeau era. We are getting more details about a visit made by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to Mar-a-Lago back in January, raising questions over the cost of the trip and whether it represented value for money. Julia Wong has more. What I asked the president was, do you want to buy more oil and gas from Canada? And he said yes. It was a roughly 48-hour trip to Florida to meet with then-President-elect Donald Trump,

a meeting Alberta Premier Danielle Smith called constructive. The unexpected visit, announced on social media, took place as a trade war loomed with the United States. Now, documents obtained by CBC News show Smith's chief of staff, principal secretary, and Alberta's senior representative to the U.S. made the trip with her. The price tag? More than $10,000. The bigger question is whether this was a true investment, where there was some kind of return on investment.

Laurie Williams is a political science professor at Mount Royal University. We're talking about a large sum of money. Smith's office pointed to comments she has previously made about the visit, where she said she emphasized the US-Canadian energy relationship to Trump and met key allies. Adding her strategy is to meet with people who can influence the US President. Julia Wong, CBC News, Edmonton. The search for two missing children in Pictou County, Nova Scotia continues today. Six-year-old Lily Sullivan and her four-year-old brother Jack vanished Friday morning.

Their stepfather is asking anyone with information to come forward. Daniel Martel believes the children opened the backsliding door at their home and left. Friday morning when we noticed that the children were gone, immediately jumped in the vehicle, surveyed all the areas, many dirt roads, many culverts as it could, and waited for the police to get there. The search now includes sniffer dogs and a fleet of drones. Today is the National Day of Awareness for missing and murdered indigenous women and girls and events are being held right across the country.

For some, the day is about remembering, but it's also about recognizing the ongoing problems. Sarah Levitt has more. This is definitely an ongoing issue. For Jamie Blackmore said the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls is more than just about remembering. The artist is behind the other name for May 5th, Red Dress Day, after her art installation showing hanging red dresses representing those missing or murdered. I think that Indigenous women are, you know, targeted.

This year, Black Marseille has reimagined her art installation on display at Winnipeg's Canadian Museum for Human Rights. For the Ganaway Mananak team, May 5th is about making people aware of ongoing issues. They've spent the past few months speaking with Manitoba Indigenous communities with the goal of implementing a red dress alert system for the province. It would be designed to alert the public to a reported missing Indigenous women, girl or two-spirit person. Sarah Levitt, CBC News, Montreal.

And finally, a third Canadian hockey team is going to round two of the Stanley Cup playoffs. The Winnipeg Jets beat the St. Louis Blues 4-3 in double overtime last night to win game seven of their first round series and punch their ticket to the next round. The Toronto Maple Leafs and the Edmonton Oilers are also playing in the second round, which begins tonight with the Leafs hosting the Florida Panthers. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Herland.