The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/13 at 06:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 13, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/13 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 CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. We go first to Ottawa, where Prime Minister Mark Carney's cabinet is being sworn in this morning at Rideau Hall. We're being told this cabinet will be smaller than what we've seen in recent years, with Carney also adding Secretaries of State or junior ministers. Rafi Boudjikianian has more.

Are you in cabinet? Newly-minted Liberal MP for Toronto Centre Evan Solomon picking up his luggage at Ottawa International Airport, not quite issuing a denial about whether he's getting into cabinet. The Prime Minister's office has said Mark Carney is adding 10 junior roles to the cabinet. Some of the ministers will be the new faces that got elected along with Carney, such as former Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson, who will take on housing, and former chair of Hydro One Timothy Hodgson, who becomes natural resources and energy minister, replacing Jonathan Wilkinson, who is out of

cabinet. Carney's office says there will be fewer than 30 full-time cabinet ministers, and he's committing to gender parity. Carney is keeping some old ministers. Christia Freeland will stay on. So will Stephen Gilbo, as well as Sean Fraser, who is moving to justice. Rafi Bajikan, YonCBC News, Ottawa. Donald Trump's three-country visit to the Middle East is underway, with the US President landing today in Saudi Arabia. And while these presidential tours traditionally focus on regional security and diplomacy,

this one is all about business. Here's Chris Brown. Donald Trump's visit here feels like an enormous trade fair as he's bringing along top US business leaders such as Elon Musk. And the Saudis are rolling out all of their showcase business projects that are part of the country's so-called 2030 project. It's an immense effort to reposition one of the world's top oil producers as a more diverse economy, and also to transform it into a more moderate Muslim nation rather than the ultra conservative society that it's been.

I'm at the US-Saudi investment forum where we just heard US Treasury Secretary Scott Besant the opening act for Trump if you will in between the lavish welcoming ceremony state dinners and other fancy Gatherings and of course deal signing events the Saudis want not just US capital But also us know-how and its leaders have held out the prospect of up to a trillion dollars worth of business that could come out of this visit. Chris Brown, CBC News, NRIAD. Questions are being raised in Newfoundland and Labrador about how the provincial government is registering a major class action payout that's coming its way from the Canadian tobacco industry.

Peter Cowan has the story. That's probably one of Callan has the story. That's probably one of the lowest in the country. Newfoundland and Labrador's finance minister has touted just how small the province's $372 million deficit is this year. But what Siobhan Cody didn't mention was the deficit would have been almost double if it wasn't for the settling of a decades-long court battle with tobacco companies. There's a large tobacco settlement, which is about $500 million.

The Deputy Minister of Finance, Michelle Juer, says it took the total amount of the settlement and put it into this year's budget, even though the actual amount will be paid out over 20 years. It's the only province to do it this way. The government's up for reelection. Ian Lee, who's a professor of business management at Ottawa's Carleton University, says politics may have influenced how Newfoundland and Labrador treated this. The temptation is, hey, we'll take it all into revenues and we'll make the situation look much better than it really is. The province

says it's following accounting standards, but it'll be up to the auditor general to decide if this follows the rules. A provincial election is scheduled for October. Peter Cowan, CBC News, St. John's. Now to the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The Edmonton Oilers are one win away from the Western Conference Final. A 3-0 shutout for Stuart Skinner and the Oilers in Game 4. The Oilers finishing off Las Vegas last night in Game 4 of their best of seven, three nothing the final and Edmonton up now three games to one. Tonight, Winnipeg, the Jets are in Dallas looking to keep a close with the Stars.

Dallas leads that series two games to one. And that is The World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings.