The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/08 at 04:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/08 at 04:00 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 Neil Herland. The leaders of the Catholic Church are about to start their second day of voting to elect a new pope. The second ballot will be held this hour. Yesterday, 133 Cardinals could not reach a two-thirds majority needed to pick the new pope. The CBC's Margaret Evans is at the Vatican. Most people know that it's very unlikely that they

would reach a decision like this on the first day when there's only one vote and the anticipation built and built and by the by the evening the crowds were here and in patient they were clapping they wanted the Cardinals to hear and to vote. The CBC's Margaret Evans at the Vatican. Hundreds of patients in New Brunswick have been desperately seeking answers for years about what's behind a cluster of mystery brain illness. Now an article in a leading American medical journal suggests there is no mystery cluster after all. Just a lot of poorly diagnosed cases.

Bobbie Jean McKinnon has more. She's very sick. Stacey Quigley Cormier has watched her stepdaughter Gabrielle deteriorate for years. The 23-year-old needs a cane or wheelchair and suffers from memory and concentration issues. She's one of hundreds of people stricken by a so-called neurological syndrome of unknown cause, according to Moncton neurologist Dr. Alie Marrero. He was the first to sound the alarm about a mystery disease cluster more than four years ago. Yesterday, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a report by 13 Canadian doctors and researchers who reassessed 25 of more than 200 of Marrero's patients and found each had

an identifiable condition like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's or cancer. Toronto neurologist Dr. Anthony Lang is one of the authors. When we did the statistics, the chances of any of those other individuals having a mystery disease was less than one in a million. In 2022, an oversight committee of six neurologists found potential alternative diagnoses for most of Marrero's patients. Bobby G. McKinnon, CBC News, St. John. The Premier of Yukon is resigning. Ranch-Pillay says he's also quitting as liberal leader in the territory. After two decades in politics, he says he's not prepared to endure another in the territory. After two decades in politics, he says, he's not prepared to endure another election campaign.

The work of a premier or minister is all consuming, which means considerable time away from those that are closest to you. And I didn't understand that at the time, but I get it now. Pellet plans to stay as a new leader until a new leader is chosen. He's been premier since 2023.

Police in Ontario are warning teens about the dangers of playing senior assassin. For some students, the game is a way to blow off steam at the end of the year, where they track down other competitors and shoot them with water, gel or foam dart guns. But as Ithal Musa reports, it can turn dangerous when the toy guns get confused for the real thing. It's supposed to be all fun and games. Teens ambushing their classmates with toy guns. But police across the country are warning. Replica firearms look an awful lot like real firearms. Constable James Dixon is with York Regional Police just north of Toronto. The service has recently received numerous reports of young people carrying what appear to be guns.

And Dixon says that kind of misunderstanding can lead to serious trouble. Whether it's a police-involved shooting, whether there's criminal charges of either assault with a weapon, whether there's mischief to property, there's a lot of different things that can come out of here that we're very concerned about. Last year in Kansas, a teen was paralyzed when the father of a target shot him. In February, an 18-year-old in Florida was shot by an off-duty police officer who mistook his water gun for a real one. Police are urging teens to make sure their toy guns look nothing like the real thing. Ido Moussa, CBC News, Toronto.

The Toronto Maple Leafs won Game 2 of their second round series last night. It'll ricochet out and the Leafs have a two game win in this battle of the Atlantic. The Leafs beat the Florida Panthers 4-3. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neal Herland.