The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/05 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 5, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/05 at 12:00 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, it's the World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings. With Canada's sacrifice being honored, the Netherlands is marking the 80th anniversary of Liberation Day. That's a military parade earlier today in the city of Wagenhagen. It is in honour of those who fought to liberate the Netherlands from Nazi Germany in the Second World War.

And Canada, of course, played a key role in that liberation. In fact, it was Canada that accepted Germany's surrender on this day in 1945. A Canadian delegation on hand includes, incidentally, 22 Canadian Second World War veterans. Meanwhile, in London, King Charles and the Royal Family being greeted as they walk onto the balcony at Buckingham Palace. Thousands had gathered outside the palace to witness a military fly-past that included, among other aircraft, a Second World War-era Lancaster bomber. We have a radio special scheduled for tonight, incidentally, with all the highlights from

today's Victory Day ceremonies. Nala Ayad and John Northcott are the hosts, with the broadcast getting underway at 9 p.m. on CBC Radio 1 and on the CBC News app. Prime Minister Mark Carney is flying to Washington today ahead of his White House meeting tomorrow with U.S. President Donald Trump. It's Carney's first trip to the Oval Office since his election victory earlier this month. Janice McGregor reports. When you have a US president who's been bragging to reporters

about having swayed Canada's election, job one for the prime minister elected in that vote automatically becomes reasserting Canada's sovereignty, which sets up a tension heading into these talks. Carney laid out his expectation that solutions might take a while. As urgent as it is to resolve tariff uncertainty, Canada may be in a stronger position in a longer negotiation that stretches closer to the U.S. midterm elections, when voices in Congress or dismal public opinion polling could be more influential.

Beyond this first meeting, Carney is going to be hosting G7 leaders in Kana-Naskis, Alberta in just a few weeks. And yet it is very unclear what role the U.S. might be playing in that agenda. It's possible his conversation with Trump tomorrow is also going to include more than just Canada's bilateral concerns. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. The NDP's National Council is meeting tonight to pick an interim leader. Jagmeet Singh, who has been the party leader now since 2017, announced on election night that he is stepping down. The NDP was reduced to just seven seats in the election and no

longer holds official party status. More details are coming to light now about a trip Alberta Premier Danielle Smith made in January to Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate and critics are questioning whether the cost of that visit represents value for money. Julia Wong has more. What I asked the president was do you want to buy more oil and gas from me 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 U.S.-Canadian energy relationship to Trump and met key allies, adding her strategy is to meet with people who can influence the U.S. president. Julia Wong, CBC News, Edmonton. Jury selection is underway in New York City in the sex trafficking and racketeering trial of Sean Diddy Combs. The prosecution alleges the music and fashion mogul coerced women into participating into sex acts and used violence and threats to keep his victims compliant and silent. And that is The World This Hour.

For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.