The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/07 at 02:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/07 at 02:00 EDT

The election may be over, but that certainly doesn't mean things are settled on Parliament Hill, and that gives At Issue a lot to talk about. I'm Rosemary Barton, CBC's Chief Political Correspondent, and every week I'm joined by three of Canada's top political journalists, Chantelle Baer, Andrew Coyne, and Althea Raj, to help you understand what's at stake as the Liberals settled in for another minority and the Conservatives try to hold them to account. Follow At Issue as we break down the biggest stories in Canadian politics. New podcasts every Friday. From CBC News, the world this hour.

I'm Neil Herland. We begin at the Vatican where the Catholic Church is about to pick its next leader. On Wednesday, 133 Cardinals from around the world will vote pick its next leader. On Wednesday, 133 cardinals from around the world will vote for their next leader. David Perlich is the CBC's Vatican analyst. In the first ballot you can expect two or three, sometimes four, candidates to get a lot of votes. Cardinals get a lot of votes. And then there are a large number of cardinals who get two or three or four votes. In the next ballot, the big question is,

where do those smaller blocks of votes go? If they start moving all in one direction, then there's sort of an obvious front runner and somebody who could ride the wave to the two-thirds majority. But if they start to diffuse amongst the other candidates and in a further vote, that doesn't become more apparent and there is no obvious frontrunner. That's when

you can certainly be in for a longer conclave. The CBC's David Perlich at the Vatican. Canada's business community says Donald Trump offered a path to ending the trade war during Tuesday's summit at the White House. Trump gave a strong defense of the Canada-US-Mexico trade deal in his meeting with Carney. And some say the path forward lies through that deal. Peter Armstrong reports. Thank you very much everybody. It's a great honor to have Prime Minister Mark Carney.

There was a subtle but important message in yesterday's meeting between Donald Trump and Mark Carney. Was USMCA there? No, it was actually very effective and it's still very effective, but people have to follow it. Goldie Heider, president to the business council of Canada, says he's been telling businesses that the path through the trade war lies within the confines of the Canada, U.S. Mexico free trade deal. And I think the president has opened a wide open door and we need to drive through it.

Heider says Carney and Trump are set to meet in person again at the G7 summit in Cananascis, Alberta in June. Why not, he says, invite Mexico's president and use CUSMA as a way of resetting the trade relationship and jump-starting negotiations to end the trade war. Peter Armstrong, CBC News, Washington. Four housekeepers are suing the legendary Motown singer Smokey Robinson. They allege he sexually assaulted them for years and they're asking for $50 million. John Harris is their lawyer. The principal causes of action against Mr. Robinson in particular are sexual

battery, assault, false imprisonment, gender violence, and creating a hostile work environment. Robinson has not responded yet to the lawsuit. Non consensual deep fake pornography is a growing problem around the world but this week we learned that the global issue has a troubling Canadian connection. Eric Sito from the CBC's visual investigations unit has more. You're hearing our attempt to talk to a man named David Doe. He's not interested in commenting. Doe is a Canadian pharmacist in the Greater Toronto area, a husband, and a key figure

behind the most notorious deepfake porn site in the world. That's based on an investigation that linked usernames, IP addresses, and passwords to him. But the site was shut down last weekend following repeated requests for comment from CBC News and its international partners, Bellingcat and Danish outlets, Cecta and Pulitiken. Deepfake porn often focuses on major celebrities, but our investigation came across videos of regular people too, like Sarah Zed, a Canadian YouTuber.

Every time it is being used on some really big name celebrity like Taylor Swift, it emboldens people to use it on more private individuals like me. Creating and distributing deepfake porn of adults isn't illegal in Canada, even though it is in places like Australia and the UK. Eric Sito, CBC News, Toronto. India has fired missiles into Pakistani controlled territory, killing at least 31 people. India says it hit infrastructure used by militants linked to last month's massacre of tourists in Kashmir.

And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neal Herland.