The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/05 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 5, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/05 at 16:00 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 Pat Philpott. The complainant accusing five former World Junior Hockey players of sexual assault testified for a second today. There's a publication ban on the woman's name. She's known only as EM. All the men have pleaded not guilty. Alice Chiesan has more from the London courthouse. And a warning, the report contains explicit details of alleged sexual assault. What do we want? Justice!

The day started with a gathering of advocacy groups for sexual assault survivors chanting in support of EM. The complainant is on the stand in day two of her testimony of what happened in that London hotel room. As each of the five accused hockey players headed briskly into the courthouse, they rallied louder. The judge reminded the jury not to be swayed by supporters and that they must only consider evidence presented to them inside the courtroom. The complainant has been describing an out-of-body experience, she felt, while performing sexual acts on several men. She alleges being spit on and smacked, things she says made her feel degraded. Videos were shown that were recorded that night of her saying, quote, it was all consensual.

When asked by the Crown attorney whether that was an accurate representation of how she was feeling in the moment EM said no quote I think it was from a time where my mind was disconnected from my body. Ali Chyasson CBC News London Ontario several indigenous groups say they are working together to build a national database on missing and murdered indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people. At the announcement in Ottawa, indigenous leaders said the publicly available data is scattered. Cora Maguire-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's announcement comes on National Red Dress Day with commemorations taking place around the country to honor those who've been lost to violence. Next week Alberta is launching an advertising campaign to raise awareness of measles and the need to get immunized. The campaign is simple don't get measles get immunized.

Minister of Health Adriana Lagrange says Alberta now has 265 cases of measles, a statistic not seen since 1997. The overwhelming number of infections are in children who were not immunized. By comparison, Ontario has more than 1200 cases, also mostly in unvaccinated individuals. Prime Minister Mark Carney is en route to Washington for tomorrow's meeting with US President Donald Trump. It comes at a tense time in Canada-US relations. Tom Perry has more. The Prime Minister's traveling to Washington

for a very high stakes meeting with US President Donald Trump. Trump has slapped tariffs on US allies, including Canada, but the US President has also been musing pretty much nonstop about Canada becoming America's 51st state. Trump was on about that again over the weekend on a US political program, though Trump did say he did not see the US using military force

to take over this country. Carney says he's going into this meeting expecting some difficult but constructive discussions and asked for Trump's 51st state talk. Carney says it's important to distinguish what the president wants from reality, adding that Canadians have made it clear they will never join the U.S. Tom Perry, CBC News, Ottawa. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is preparing for an intensive invasion of Gaza.

And he says Palestinians there would be moved for their own safety. Netanyahu stresses this time soldiers won't go in and out. The Israeli government has approved a plan to seize the entire Gaza Strip. Officials say the military will stay in the territory for an unspecified amount of time. Israel has controlled about 50% of Gaza since the ceasefire with Hamas ended late March. That's your World This Hour. I'm Pep Philpott.