The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/07 at 18:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/07 at 18:00 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 Juliette Hazelwood. B.C. Premier David Eby is giving details about today's call between the prime minister and provincial and territorial ministers. It followed yesterday's visit by Mark Carney to US President Donald Trump. The Premier's

concerns include softwood lumber, a long-running sore spot between Canada and the US, and Trump's threat earlier this week to impose tariffs on movies made outside the states. It's obviously hugely worrying for the film sector and it's hard to imagine the President doubling the charges for Netflix for Americans and hoping that that's a winning political strategy or cutting the number of films and TV shows that they watch by half or more. But regardless of that, the industry needs to know that the federal government's onside. Eby says he's been trying to deliver his message to Trump via the president's favorite media outlet Fox News. Carney will meet with Canada's premieres next month in person. The council

of the Federation will gather in Saskatoon on June 2nd. Yukon's premier has announced he's stepping down. Ranj Pillay says he'll stay in office until a new leader is chosen. Pillay has served as premier since January 2023. He ran unopposed for the Liberal leadership after former premier Sandy Silver resigned. Since he took power, Pillay has faced consistent calls from the opposition Yukon party to call an election. Yukon's next election is set for November. RCMPs say they're scaling back the search for two missing children in northeastern Nova

Scotia. This after six days of looking for six-year-old Lily Sullivan and her four-year-old brother Jack. Nikola second has more. Thank you all for being here. Down a rainy dirt road in Nova Scotia's rural Pictou County, RCMP announced they're scaling back the ground search and rescue operation for the two young children missing since Friday. Curtis McKinnon is a staff sergeant with the RCMP. He says officers will be searching areas that have already been covered to make sure no clues were missed. And when transitioning from an

active search to a scale back search, the probability of survival is taken into consideration. Searchers have meticulously combed four square kilometers around the Children's home in lands down station about 20 kilometers from the nearest town. RCMP initially said they believe the Children just wandered off, but are now saying it's being treated as suspicious and the major crimes unit has been involved since Saturday. Investigators say they haven't seen a trace of the kids in the woods except a lone boot print days ago.

Nicola Sagan, CBC News, Lansdowne Station, Nova Scotia. Crews on two sides of the country are battling wildfires. In Newfoundland and Labrador, several are burning, including one along Conception Bay North. Police are evacuating parts of the region. In Alberta, hundreds of people have been forced from the village of Boyle, about 150 kilometers north of Edmonton. Heat and high winds are fueling the flames, and officials expect those dry conditions to last

until the weekend. Black smoke. That sums up the first day of deliberations to select a new pope. The signal from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel means a successor has not been chosen. There needs to be at least two-thirds majority among the 133 cardinals who are voting. Winita Taylor reports from the Vatican. Well black smoke billowed out at about 9 p.m. local time. You know people had been waiting all day for this moment. People were saying that they were feeling curious and intrigued, yet they were patient. You know the challenges in this conclave are many. One Vatican observer said that this conclave could prove to be unpredictable, especially with 133 voting

cardinals. Many of them know fewer than a dozen, so they'll need time to get to know each other, but more importantly to assess the front runners. Now Pope Francis didn't have many gatherings of cardinals, so there were fewer occasions for them to meet compared to a previous pope so they are largely strangers and especially those who come from the peripheries. Now how long will it be until a new pope is elected? Well that's anybody's best guess. The CBC's Juanita Taylor reporting from the Vatican. And that is your World This Hour. You can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts updated every hour, seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.