The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/07 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/07 at 12:00 EDT

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From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. We start with Prime Minister Mark Carney, who this hour is updating the premiers on his visit to the White House. Carney says his trip to Washington yesterday is the start of a long process aimed at bringing trade stability back to the Canada-U.S. relationship. Here at home, it appears he may have another stability issue to deal with. Janice McGregor explains.

Premier Daniel Smith has focused her attention over the last week on a fresh round of demands for the federal government, acknowledging the frustration in her province over the election result and amplifying the minority of Albertans that want to channel that into a referendum on separation. That risks undermining the work of other premiers like Ontario's Doug Ford, who's been lobbying flat out for Team Canada. This is a time to unite the country, not people saying, oh, I'm leaving the country, I'm doing this, I'm doing that.

I don't tell him how he should run his province and I would hope that he doesn't tell me how I should run mine. Since the election, Carney's been asking premiers to identify their top priorities to strengthen Canada's economy, particularly infrastructure projects, which in the energy sector can be divisive. We'll see if the prime minister can do that while keeping a lid on these tensions. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. Former U.S. President Joe Biden says global democracy is facing its greatest threat since

the Second World War. In his first interview since leaving the White House, Biden tells the BBC that in this moment in history, it's dangerous for the Trump administration to be undermining critical institutions such as NATO. Biden, President of the United States, said in a press conference on Tuesday, July 1, that the U.S. should stop the use of NATO. Imagine there being no NATO. Do you think Putin would have stopped Ukraine?

I don't understand how they failed to understand that there's strength in alliances. There's benefits. The costs there, it saves us money overall. Biden was also asked about Donald Trump's treatment of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky at the White House back in February. Biden says that interaction was, quote, beneath America. Meanwhile, France and Germany are forming a joint defense committee. As French President Emmanuel Macron is saying, the committee is being established as the

two countries are in the process of boosting their military spending. He says it will make it easier for them to work together in dealing with shared security threats. Newly elected German Chancellor Frederick Merz was in Paris for today's joint announcement. He was sworn in just yesterday. Now to the Vatican, where 133 cardinals have gathered at the Sistine Chapel and are about to start the process of selecting the next pope. Here's Megan Williams. Megan Williams, The New Pope's men only and under 80, it's the biggest in history. It's also the most geographically diverse. The late Pope Francis wanted a church from what he called the peripheries.

And those he made cardinals reflect that desire. They come from distant places that never before had a vote. Brunei, South Sudan, Mongolia. Italy's top Vatican diplomat, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, is considered a front runner, with a position that gives him global visibility. So is Cardinal Luis Tagle of the Philippines, charismatic, multilingual, and often seen as the Asian Francis.

But observers warn, with Cardinal's divided, distant, and unfamiliar, any outcome is possible. Megan Williams, CBC News, The Vatican. If you haven't already, the odds are you'll be hearing this at some time today. It is test day for Canada's Alert Ready Emergency Public Warning System. Once a year, the system gets a test run with that distinctive two-beat drone being broadcast on TV, radio and most wireless devices. You can check the alert-ready website for the time it's going out in your province or territory.

And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.