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

Episode Date: May 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/05 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 Pep Philpott. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is

laying out what she describes as the province's path forward following the recent federal election and the new Liberal government. Smith says the province must protect itself from Ottawa's economic intrusions. Josh McLean reports. Alberta didn't start this fight, but rest assured we will finish it. In a speech this afternoon, Smith outlined her requirements for a deal with Ottawa, among them an end to federal interference in natural resource development and the same per capita federal transfers as Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia. I'm convinced it will not only make Alberta and Canada an infinitely stronger and more

prosperous country, but will eliminate the doubts a growing number of Albertans feel about the future of Alberta in Canada. Smith said she sees a path forward for Alberta within Canada, but emphasized that many Albertans do not, which is a tool the province can use in its negotiations with the feds, according to political scientist John Sierowski. I think the Premier is probably very happy that there is significant separatist discontent or separatist aspiration in Alberta. Smith is appointing a special negotiating team to pursue a deal with the federal government.

Josh McLean, CBC News, Calgary. Tariffs will undoubtedly be on the agenda when Mark Carney meets with President Donald Trump tomorrow. The Prime Minister arrived in Washington this afternoon. This is Carney's first international trip and his first meeting with Trump since the Liberals won last week's election. Carney's first international trip and his first meeting with Trump since the Liberals won last week's election. Ahead of his arrival, Carney was predicting some difficult but constructive White House talks. And as Carney heads into those talks with Trump, Amnesty International is calling on Canada

to leave the safe third country agreement. The group says that's because human rights abuses have increased under the US president. Rafi Boujikaneen has more. An asylum seeker 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 U.S. 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, YonCBC 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 also says its military has struck several Houthi targets in Yemen. At least one person was killed, 35 others wounded. The strikes reportedly hit a port area along the Red Sea. This comes a day after Houthi militants launched a missile that landed in Tel Aviv near Israel's

busiest airport. At least six people were injured in that attack. Three people are dead and nine others missing after their boat capsized off the California coast. The US Coast Guard says four others were injured. Officials say the three and a half meter vessel flipped over in high surf near San Diego's coast. Coast Guard vessels and helicopters are searching for those missing. It's believed the boat was carrying migrants, but authorities don't know where it was coming from.

where it was coming from. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Pep Philpott.