The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/12 at 05:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 12, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/12 at 05:00 EDT

So, how did the Liberals manage to win government while the Conservatives also boosted their voter support with voters almost evenly split between the two? And what will this mean for hopes of some cooperation on Parliament Hill this spring? I'm Catherine Cullen and every Saturday on The House, we cut through the noise to make politics make sense. Follow us wherever you get your podcasts as we explore these questions and answer yours. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Neil Herland. There is fresh hope for a peace deal

between Russia and Ukraine. The Russian government is proposing face-to-face talks with the Ukrainian government. The meeting would take place later this week in Turkey. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he would be there. Andrew Rasulis is a fellow with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. Thursday looks like a very potentially important day. We'll see if it actually comes together, but right now the Ukrainians are saying they're going to show up. Zelensky is saying he's going to show up.

The Russians are yet not clear as to who they will send to Istanbul, but they're saying the delegation will be announced shortly. The Ukrainian president is also proposing a ceasefire that would start today, though so far Russia continued its drone attacks overnight. We're following a major development in Turkey today. The PKK Kurdish militant group says it will disband and disarm as part of a peace initiative with the Turkish government, ending a conflict that killed tens of thousands of people since the 1980s.

The Palestinian militant group Hamas says it will release an Israeli-American hostage as part of an effort to reach a ceasefire deal. Yidan Alexander is believed to be the last living US national being held captive in Gaza. US President Donald Trump confirmed the news on social media. Trump will visit the Middle East this week, starting in Saudi Arabia. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he did not commit to any ceasefire or prisoner release with Hamas, but only to a safe corridor that would allow the one hostage to be released.

U.S. tariffs imposed on new vehicles are expected to lead to a boom in the used car business, but with that could come a problem – Odometer fraud. Ontario's car dealership regulator warns it's on the rise. Erica Johnson from our Go Public team has the story of a BC man who experienced the problem first hand. Steve Andrews thought he'd found the perfect car for his growing family. A 2012 Subaru Outback. The price was right and the mileage low for the car's age, just under 98,000 K. But shortly after buying the car,

he discovered recall records that showed five years ago, the odometer was 15,000 kilometres higher than today. Yeah, I was definitely angry at them. So, who committed odometer fraud? In a game of hot potato, neither the seller, the dealership she sold to, or the dealership that took the car on consignment and sold to Andrews,

said they had anything to do with altering the mileage. No one keeps stats on odometer fraud in Canada, but Ontario's regulator for car dealers says the problem's on the rise. It is a click of a button. Mechanic Josh Engel says it's easy to tweak the mileage using a device sold online for a few hundred bucks that plugs into a vehicle's computer port. You don't have to have any know-how you just need to know how to

select a vehicle on a screen. Erica Johnson CBC News Vancouver. The Toronto Maple Leafs lost game four last night of their second round playoff series against the Florida Panthers. Greg Ross reports from Florida. Throughout these playoffs, Leafs head coach Craig Brube has stressed the importance of playing a disciplined brand of hockey. It's essentially been the Leafs game plan and it's been very successful for them, but there's no doubt they got away from that game plan a little bit in game four, particularly in the first period. The Leafs took four straight

penalties and while they were able to kill off the first three of them, their luck ran out on the fourth penalty kill. Carter Verhege scored a power play goal to give the Panthers a 1-0 lead, and that goal would hold up as the game winner. The Leafs offense, unable to get anything past Panthers netminder Sergei Bobrovsky, who stopped 23 shots for the shutout. Florida would add one more goal in the third period courtesy of Sam Bennett as they go on to blank the Leafs 2-0. Things now shift back to Toronto all knotted at two games apiece which means it's now been

reduced to essentially a best of three series. Game five will go Wednesday night at Scotiabank Arena. Greg Ross, CBC News, Sunrise Florida. And that is your World This Hour. I'm Neil Herland.