The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/07 at 23:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/07 at 23:00 EDT

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From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Neil Herland. We begin at the Vatican where the conclave to elect a new pope is underway. On Wednesday, cardinals cast their first ballot, but they fail to elect a pope. Margaret Evans reports. The cardinals, the so-called princes of the church bathed in the red glow of their robes as they filed into the Sistine Chapel and saw the history books, tasked at this conclave with choosing the Catholic Church's 267th Pope, each taking an oath of secrecy before being locked in to deliberations.

Professional Pope watchers say the choice of a new pontiff is inevitably a judgment on the legacy of the old. By day's end, St. Peter's Square was full of those watching for the results of the Cardinals' first vote, even though few expected a result this early in the process. And when the smoke started to flow from that much-watched chimney, it was black. More deliberations. Margaret Evans, CBC News, Vatican City. A day after his meeting with US President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Mark Carney briefed the Premiers on what was said and what comes next.

Tom Perry has more. I don't think I'd have the restraint that he had yesterday to be very frank. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Mark Carney's encounter with Donald Trump went about as well as it could. No one expected to sign a deal, but I'll tell you it was a massive step forward that he went down there and they seemed to be getting along quite well. BC premier David Eby also breathing a sigh of relief. We were all grateful that the meeting went the way that it did, knowing how some other meetings have gone in that exact same office with other world leaders. But despite that relief, U.S. tariffs

remain in place on Canadian steel, aluminum and other products. Carney will sit down with the premiers in Saskatchewan in early June, before meeting face-to-face again with Trump at the G7 summit in Cananascus, Alberta. Tom Perry, CBC News, Ottawa. Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet is weighing in on Alberta separatism. He says since Quebec hasn't successfully split from Canada, he's not the one to ask, but he still had this advice. The first idea is to define oneself as a nation. Therefore, it requires a culture of their own. And I am not certain that oil and gas qualify to define a culture. But it's theirs to decide.

If they want to re-vindicate the right to self-determination, it would never interfere in that. It belongs to them. Some parents in Canada have received disturbing news. Their children's personal information that was stolen in a major school data breach has not been deleted as promised, despite a ransom being paid. Jamie Strachan reports. In late December, PowerSchool, a data storage platform used by hundreds of school boards

in Canada and across North America, suffered a massive data breach affecting millions of students. It assured clients, including multiple Canadian school boards, that the data of students and staff hadn't been exposed. It paid a ransom in exchange for assurances from the hackers the stolen data would be deleted. It now turns out that never happened. Predictable, says technology analyst Carmi Levy.

It's absolutely clear that the data is being used for subsequent attacks. Now the hackers, still in possession of a massive amount of data, are targeting individual school boards. The Toronto District School Board says it was the target of a ransom demand this week. Certainly we can. Toronto Metropolitan University Professor Charles Finlay advises vigilance for those affected but points out it could be months, even years, until the true implications of this massive breach are known.

Jamie Strash in CBC News, Toronto. The Winnipeg Jets are hosting the Dallas Stars tonight in Game 1 of their second-round playoff series. Right now Winnipeg is ahead 1-0 in the second period. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neal Herland.