The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/07 at 14:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/07 at 14:00 EDT

1942, Europe. Soldiers find a boy surviving alone in the woods. They make him a member of Hitler's army. But what no one would know for decades, he was Jewish. Could a story so unbelievable be true? I'm Dan Goldberg. I'm from CBC's Personally, Toy Soldier. Available now wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. Prime Minister Mark Carney held a call with Canada's premiers, his first since the election and his meeting with US President Donald Trump yesterday. Ontario's Premier Doug Ford was on the call and delivered this assessment. We all congratulated him on his victory but also congratulated him on how well he did yesterday and the restraint he showed.

I don't think I'd have the restraint that he had yesterday to be very frank but in saying that I think it's a good start on a new relationship." Ford says he also urged Cardy to give what he called more love to Saskatchewan and Alberta. He pointed out their rocky relationship with previous Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. BC Premier David Eby is expected to add his comments later this hour when he addresses the media. RCMP say they're scaling back the search for two missing children in northeastern Nova Scotia after six days. Staff Sergeant Curtis McKinnon is with the RCMP. The active

search efforts to locate Lily and Jack will be scaled back and when transitioning from an active search to a scaled back search the probability of survival is taken into consideration. I want to assure you that our missing persons investigation continues. We're not packing up and we're not giving up. And it won't end until we know where Lily and Jack are and can bring them home. LILY VALENTINA Our CMP say searchers have covered more than four square kilometers. But McKinnon says they're circling back to places they've already searched to make sure no clues were missed. Six-year-old Lily Sullivan and her four-year-old brother Jack were last seen

Friday. They're believed to have wandered away from their house in Pictou County. Pictou County, that is. It's being called the biggest fentanyl bust in Newfoundland and Labrador's history. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary says it sees 1250 grams of the dangerous drug at its variance. It also scooped up cocaine, crystal meth, and more than 2,000 prescription pills. Some of the narcotics had traces of an animal tranquilizer, xylazine. Three people are charged. The RNC says this follows the dismantling of a drug lab last September. At the Vatican, 133 cardinals have begun deliberations on selecting a new pope. The doors at the Sistine Chapel shut tight after Cardinals took an oath of secrecy earlier

today. They're expected to hold several rounds of voting. Black smoke will emerge from a chimney above the chapel each time a candidate is rejected. Once the successor to Pope Francis is chosen, there will be white smoke. With more on the process, here's Megan Williams. No phones or cell phone reception or contact with the outside world. Just ballots, prayer, and the pressure of history. This conclave is unlike any before. With 133 cardinal electors, 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 Taglia 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. Pakistan says the number of dead in the overnight strikes by India has risen to 31 and it's threatening retaliation for what it's calling an act of war. India fired missiles into a Pakistani controlled part of Kashmir in the early hours of the morning. It says it was targeting terrorists responsible for last month's massacre of tourists in the

Indian controlled portion of Kashmir. But Pakistan insists women and children are among the dead. The United Nations, China, Russia, France and Britain are all calling for restraint. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelblad.