The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/05 at 13:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 5, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/05 at 13:00 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 Pep Philpott. Several Indigenous groups say they are working together to build a national database on missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirited people. At the announcement in Ottawa, Indigenous leaders say the publicly available data is scattered. Cora McGuire-Sourette is the CEO of the Ontario Native Women's Association. She

says bringing all of the data together will tell a story about how policy puts people at risk. Indigenous women are not safe when they're accessing services and systems. When you're looking at the health care system, the justice system, the policing system. Sometimes people like to think that it's one bad person who did one bad thing. When it's not, when you look at it, it was a systemic failure. Today is National Red Dress Day with commemorations taking place around the country to honour those who've been lost to violence. Next week, Alberta is launching an advertising campaign to raise the awareness of measles

and the need to get immunized. The campaign is simple. Don't get measles. Get immunized. Minister of Health Adrienne Lagrange says Alberta now has 210 cases of measles and the overwhelming number of them is in children who were not immunized. By comparison, Ontario has more than 1200 cases, also mostly in unvaccinated individuals. As Prime Minister Mark Carney prepares for his trip to the U.S., Amnesty International wants Canada to leave the Safe Third Country Agreement.

The group says that's because human rights abuses have increased under President Donald Trump. Rafi Boujikaneen has more. And the silencer could be literally disappeared. Amnesty International's US executive director Paul O'Brien rattling off a list of things that have changed in his country since President Donald Trump's inauguration in January. A legal resident who was simply protesting rights could be detained. Amnesty's push for Canada to leave the safe third country agreement it has with the US is not new, but O'Brien says it is now all the more urgent.

The agreement forces refugee claimants to make their requests in the country where they first arrive based on the idea that both countries offer the same protection for them. It's why Ottawa turns away most asylum seekers who try to come here from the states at land border crossings. But the criticism that the US is no longer safe for seekers is not just from amnesty. It's also coming from Democrat lawmakers as the Trump administration has revoked temporary status to hundreds of thousands of migrants. Rafi Bajikani on CBC News, Ottawa.

Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is preparing for an intensive invasion of Gaza. The Israeli Prime Minister says Palestinians there would be moved for their own safety. The Israeli government has approved plans to expand fighting and seize the entire Gaza Strip. Officials say the military will stay in the territory for an unspecified amount of time. Europe is marking Victory in Europe Day. It's been 80 years since the defeat of Nazi Germany. In the Netherlands, Canadian Second World War veterans took center stage. Chris Brown reports.

I'm in the town of Wageneggen, right across from the Hotel de Verreld, where a Canadian general accepted the surrender of Nazi German forces in the Netherlands 80 years ago on this day. And the Dutch had built an entire long weekend of freedom celebrations around this place with the guest of honor 22 Canadian veterans of the war all between 96 and 105 years old. They've already had an incredibly busy few days attending parades in nearby Appledorn and a series of commemorations at Canadian war cemeteries. But organizers

here are also focusing on the present by inviting military detachments from NATO countries to march with the veterans to underscore the importance to Europe of collective security, which of course is being tested by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and doubts over US President Donald Trump's commitment to the NATO alliance. Chris Brown, CBC News in Wagenaghan. And that is your World This Hour. I'm Pep Philpott.