The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/13 at 17:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 13, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/13 at 17:00 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 Scanderis. Prime Minister Mark Carney says his new cabinet will bring new ideas and take decisive actions. 28 ministers and 10 secretaries of state were sworn in at Rideau Hall earlier today. This cabinet is smaller and more focused than those of previous governments. It will operate with a commitment to true cabinet government, with everyone expected and empowered to show leadership.

24 of the appointees joined the cabinet for the first time. Several senior cabinet ministers continue in their roles. They include Francois-Philippe Champagne, Christia Freeland and Dominique LeBlanc, continuing as finance, transport and intergovernmental affairs ministers respectively. Pierre Poliev says so far it's not a promising start for the new Prime Minister. The Conservative leader speaking from Parliament Hill after Carney unveiled his cabinet, Poliev says there are too many prominent names in cabinet who served under Justin Trudeau. Then there's Jolie, LeBlanc, Haidou, Annan. Annan was the president of the Treasury Board

during which time the bureaucracy and the consultant bills blew out of control in all. 14 Trudeau ministers are now in Carney's cabinet. It's more of the same when Canada needs real change. But Poliev says the Conservatives will not be opposing everything the new government does. He promises the opposition's support for actions that benefit Canadians. Honda is delaying major investments in Canada.

The Japanese automaker was set to spend billions of dollars on electric vehicle production in Ontario. Anis Hadari tells us what's happened. It's a $15 billion investment delayed. Honda had proposed an electric vehicle battery plant in this country, along with retooling an existing assembly plant in Alliston, Ontario. In North America, the EV market growth is slowing down. So as of now, we think that we should postpone for at least two years.

Company executives are blaming less demand for electric vehicles as one reason for the delay. The company does say it's not cutting existing jobs in Ontario, something Premier Doug Ford echoed. We're going to keep that facility moving forward, so we'll just see how that moves forward, but we're very confident that we'll continue producing Honda vehicles here in Ontario. Both federal and provincial governments have promised billions to support the Honda expansion, which politicians say they still expect to happen eventually.

Anis Hadari, CBC News, Calgary. U.S. sanctions on Syria will soon be gone. I say good luck Syria, show us something special. President Donald Trump says he has taken the first steps to lift sanctions and normalize relations with the country. The decision comes ahead of his reported meeting tomorrow with Syria's new president. Ahmed al-Sharah was named to the post this year after a stunning offensive by insurgent groups ended the five-decade rule of the Assad family.

The sanctions were brutal and crippling and served as an important, really an important function nevertheless at the time but now it's their time to shine. Trump made the announcement in Riyadh where he signed various new agreements with Saudi Arabia. The United Nations aid chief calls Israel's plan to distribute aid in Gaza a cynical sideshow. The US backed proposal would put a private charity in charge of aid distribution limited to specific areas that Palestinians would travel to. Israel insists the measures

are necessary to prevent aid being diverted to Hamas. But Tom Fletcher says the plan would expose thousands of people to harm and force further displacement. We have life-saving supplies ready now at the borders. We can save hundreds of thousands of survivors. We have rigorous mechanisms to ensure our aid gets to civilians and not to Hamas. No food, water or medicine has entered the enclave for 10 weeks. The world's leading hunger monitor says Gaza's entire 2.1 million population is at critical risk of famine.

And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Stephanie Scanderis.