The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/05 at 23:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/05 at 23:00 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. The federal NDP has selected Don Davies as the party's interim leader. Davies has represented the riding of Vancouver Kingsway since 2008. He's one of just seven new Democrat MPs elected last Monday. It's a significant drop from the 24 the party had heading into the vote. Davies replaces Jagmeet Singh, who lost his BC riding and announced his resignation on election night. Mark Carney has arrived in Washington ahead of Tuesday's high-stakes meeting with US President Donald Trump. Carney won the Canadian election with a campaign promised to

take on Trump and defend this country's sovereignty. Katie Simpson has more. I guess he wants to make a deal. U.S. President Donald Trump's erratic tariff agenda and his insulting annexation talk fresh in the minds of Canadian voters who gave Carney a mandate to navigate this existential crisis. It's really going to be an effort on the part of the Prime Minister to lower the temperature, of course, and to try to get back to more meaningful substantive discussions. Peter McKay served as foreign affairs minister during the conservative government of Stephen Harper and he sees this as an opportunity to reset the Canada-U.S. relationship. Canadian officials are expected to pitch ways both countries can work more closely together.

Pitch is very familiar to some members of the Canadian delegation. Trump has taken a more respectful tone with Carney than he did in recent months with Trudeau. But whether that improves the Canada-U.S. relationship is anyone's guess. Katie Simpson, CBC News, Washington. And tonight the White House has released the agenda of the meeting on Tuesday. The two leaders will meet at 1130 a.m. in Washington. They'll have a 30-minute bilateral meeting followed by a lunch together. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is promising a referendum on separation next year, but only if a citizen-led campaign gathers the required number of

signatures. She says many people have lost hope about Alberta's future within Canada. The vast majority of these individuals are not fringe voices to be marginalized or vilified. They are loyal Albertans. They are quite literally our friends and neighbors who've just had enough of having their livelihoods and prosperity attacked by a hostile federal government. In a live stream addressed to the province Monday, Smith said she prefers a sovereign Alberta within a united Canada, but she insists the voices of those unhappy with confederation must be listened to.

The Premier also outlined her demands for the new Carney Liberal government in Ottawa. The complainant, accusing five former World Junior Hockey players of sexual assault, testified for a second day. The woman is known only as EM. All of the accused have pleaded not guilty. Ali Shiasan reports, but first a warning. This story contains explicit details of an alleged sexual assault. 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. And finally, we've got breaking hockey news from Toronto. The Toronto Maple Leafs have just beaten the Florida Panthers in their opening match of the second round in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Final score 5-4. They're the only Canadian team playing tonight. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neal Hurland.