The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/10 at 06:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 10, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/10 at 06:00 EDT

How did the internet go from this? You could actually find what you were looking for right away, bound to this. I feel like I'm in hell. Spoiler alert, it was not an accident. I'm Cory Doctorow, host of Who Broke the Internet from CBC's Understood. In this four-part series, I'm going to tell you

why the internet sucks now, whose fault it is, and my plan to fix it. Find who broke the internet on whatever terrible app you get your podcasts. From the CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. We begin in Ukraine. Some EU leaders have arrived in the country in a show of support to help secure a ceasefire with Russia. The leaders of the UK, France, Germany and Poland arrived by train in Kiev. They are expected to hold talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The European leaders, along with US President Donald Trump, are pushing Russia to agree to a 30-day ceasefire in hopes of allowing for further talks to end the three-plus-year war. Officials from India and Pakistan have held talks for the first time since the escalation between the two countries began. Reports suggest the contact was made via a phone call today. India has said it is committed to de-escalate hostilities if Pakistan reciprocates. Pakistan's foreign minister said today his country would consider the same if India does

not carry out further attacks. The escalation was triggered last month. A massacre at a tourist spot in the Kashmir region of India left 26 civilians dead. Several countries have urged the two nations to de-escalate the conflict. After the Prime Minister's high-stakes meeting with Donald Trump this week, is Canada any closer to ending the trade war with the United States? CBC's radio's The House is taking a closer look at that exact question. Host Catherine Cullen has more. We're probably looking at what some would describe as a grand bargain. Former Quebec Premier Jean Charest is optimistic a deal can be reached.

Charest is on the Prime Minister's Canada-US Council. He says a new agreement with the United States would go beyond the Kuzma trade deal, including issues like security, specifically the Arctic, something Charest says that would allow Trump to say he won and got something new for the US. Canada's ambassador to the US, Kirsten Hillman, says in the wake of the Carney-Trump meeting, there is work being done to strike a deal. The early focus right now seems to be primarily on tariffs. The US is interested in having a bilateral conversation with Canada.

They're having a bilateral conversation with Mexico and many other countries. Charest says big picture, there's room for Canada to wind up better off. You know maybe in 20 years from now we will thank Donald Trump for having forced us to have a hard look at our economy, our federation. Catherine Cullen, CBC News, Ottawa. And you can hear the entire interview with Jean Charest on the house after the 9 o'clock news, 9.30 in Newfoundland. Prime Minister Mark Carney's decision to invite King Charles to read the government's throne speech isn't going over well with all Canadians. He says the move is meant to highlight Canada's sovereignty in the face of US annexation threats.

But as Thomas Daigle reports, critics say the plan casts this country as anything but independent. Shouldn't a qualified, distinguished Canadian be doing that? Canada's anti-monarchy advocates consider the invitation extended to King Charles an embarrassing contradiction, hosting a British-based monarch

to open this country's sovereign parliament. Ashok Charles leads the not for profit group Republic Now, which campaigns for Canada to cut ties with the crown. Mr. Carney is sending message that a British king can perform this act of nationhood with more authority than any Canadian could. It's the first time in half a century the monarch will deliver the throne speech, filling a role usually reserved for the governor general. If past royal tours are any indication, that upcoming two-day visit by the king and queen could cost Canadian taxpayers a million dollars or more. Thomas Daigle, CBC News, Toronto.

And we're ending with hockey news. PWHL playoffs Friday night. The defending Walter Cup champion, Minnesota Frost, even their semifinal series with the Toronto Scepters. Minnesota scored three times in the second period and twice more in the third to win 5-3 in Toronto, tying their best of five series at once. The other semi-final between the Montreal Victoire versus the Ottawa Charge resumes tomorrow. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.