The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/06 at 02:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/06 at 02:00 EDT

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From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Herland. Canada's new Democrats have a new interim leader tonight. The party has named veteran MP Don Davies as a replacement for Jagmeet Singh. Singh led the NDP to its worst showing ever and resigned on election night. David Thurton reports. Don Davies is a well-known political name

in British Columbia. Now he's the NDP's national interim leader. The Vancouver MP was one of the party's key negotiators, helping to push the Liberals to roll out a national dental care program and a framework to deliver pharmacare. Now Davies leads the NDP when the party is at its lowest point, having lost most of their seats and official party status.

The last time the party had an interim leader was during another grim period, when Jack Layton stepped aside to battle cancer in 2011. Nicole Turmel stepped in. The party then was Canada's official opposition. Now it's down to seven MPs. But in this minority parliament, New Democrats hold a balance of power. It's unclear how long Davies will be in the temporary role.

Details for how NDP members will select the party's next leader have not been released. David Thurton, CBC News, Ottawa. Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Washington getting ready to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump. The two leaders are expected to talk trade and tariffs on Tuesday, at a time when Trump keeps talking about making Canada America's 51st state. Tom Parry reports.

It was a low-key welcome for Mark Carney as he touched down in the US. Carney will be welcomed at the White House with one of US President Donald Trump's faithful lieutenants setting the stage. Alright, welcome back everybody. Let's get an update on tariffs and trade. Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick went on Fox Business to parrot his bosses talking points on Canada. Are you optimistic? Can we make a deal with Canada? I think this is really complex because they have been basically feeding off of us for

decades upon decades upon decades, right? They have their socialist regime. Lutnick says this meeting should be fascinating, though he's not sure how it works out so perfectly. Carney has also set the bar low, even if the stakes are high. The Prime Minister, who campaigned as voters' best choice to take on Trump, says he's prepared for difficult but constructive discussions. Tom Perry, CBC News, Washington. Donald Trump's latest tariff threat could deal a major blow to the Canadian film industry.

The U.S. president is planning to slap a 100% tariff on films produced internationally. Anis Haydari reports. Star Trek Strange New Worlds might have to warp on out of Canada if threatened tariffs come through. The show was shot in Toronto with Canadian crew members. If the latest Donald Trump threat comes through, that would make it more expensive. There aren't any details yet, but there are concerns. It would have a devastating impact. Charlie Kyle is a professor at the University of Toronto's Cinema Studies Institute. He says

most of the economic activity in the film and TV sector here are either productions or co-productions for US companies. So if a tariff made it more expensive for them to shoot in Canada, not only would it slow down production considerably, but it would also have knock on effects so that you would have unemployed people in that sector not having the same kind of buying power they had because they're not working. The White House though has told the Hollywood reporter there haven't been any final decisions made on foreign film tariffs. And he's had our CBC News, Calgary.

We're following a developing story in Sudan tonight. Multiple explosions and fires were seen and heard in the capital of Port Sudan, fighting from the civil wars now affecting a city that was quiet in the past. And finally Toronto hockey fans are cheering tonight. And this one will go into the books as a 5-4. Maple Leaf win in game one. The Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Florida Panthers in their opening match of the second round in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Final score 5-4. And that is your

World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neal Herland.