The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/12 at 19:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 12, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/12 at 19:00 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 CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Stephanie Scanderres. The election result in Terbonne had been settled, or so we thought. You'll remember, a judicial recount over the weekend handed the Quebec riding to the Liberals by a single vote. But a new development has the potential to change that outcome. Vanessa Lee reports. I think it's really amazing.

Emmanuelle Bosset lives in the suburban Montreal riding of Terrebonne. She voted in the federal election using a mail-in ballot for the first time, which Elections Canada sent to her in a self-addressed return envelope. She mailed it on April 5th and thought it was a done deal. But then on May 2nd, days after the election, she was surprised to see the envelope was sent back to her. She noticed the last three digits of the postal code were wrong.

I voted for the Bloc Québécois. Maybe it's the vote that could have changed the outcome, she says. Elections Canada confirms there was a mistake on the return envelope it provided, but did not say if others were affected. The agency says it's looking into the situation. Vanessa Lee, CBC News, Montreal. Alberta is freezing its industrial carbon price at $95 per ton of emissions effective immediately. The price had been set to increase to $170

per ton by 2030. Premier Danielle Smith says the move is meant to keep the energy industry competitive and provide it with certainty. Also in Alberta. I am very proud to announce that we have an official referendum question. Jeff Rath is with the Alberta Prosperity Project. The group is hoping to organize a referendum on Alberta's independence from Canada. Rath says the question he hopes to put to the people is, do you agree that the province of Alberta shall become a sovereign country and cease to be a province of Canada, yes or no.

Rath is urging Albertans to vote for separation, promising an end to all federal regulations. Alberta recently introduced a bill that would sharply lower the bar for citizens seeking to trigger province-wide referendums. The uncertainty that's currently present in the United States related to the Trump administration presents a significant opportunity for British Columbia. BC Premier David Eby says more nurses trained in the U.S. are finding it a lot easier to work in the province. The government streamlined credential recognition early last month.

Eby says that means nurses can register in the province in a few days instead of months. As a result, he says applications from U.S. trained nurses have more than doubled. We believe that by recruiting American health care workers into our system, they're able to hit the ground running with their experience in a system that's very similar to ours and they'll help us in our goal of delivering more care to more British Columbians faster. Next month, the province will launch a marketing campaign in parts of the U.S. Hostage Eden Alexander is back in Israel. Hamas handed over the 21-year-old Israeli-American to the Red Cross

with hopes of restarting ceasefire talks. Israel says U.S. political pressure made the handover possible. Sasha Petrasek has the latest. As Eidon Alexander was airlifted out of Gaza, his family cheered, adoptive father Doran Zechser beamed. It was the best meal that we had for 584 days. The American Israeli citizen serving with the IDF when he was kidnapped on October 7th was released by Hamas after direct negotiations with the U.S. bypassing the Israeli government.

It offered no ceasefire and no exchange of Palestinian prisoners. Take him, says one Ghazan, but at least let aid in. Israel didn't offer that either. Instead, this was touted as a goodwill gesture by Hamas to get the US to pressure Israel into ending the 19-month war. But with 58 other hostages still held, 23 of them alive, Israel is preparing to expand its military operation, not end it. Sasha Petrosik, CBC News, Toronto. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Stephanie Scanderis.