The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/13 at 19:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 13, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/13 at 19:00 EDT

Other People's Problems was the first podcast to take you inside real-life therapy sessions. I'm Dr. Hilary McBride, and again, we're doing something new. The ketamine really broke down a lot of my barriers. This work has this sort of immediate transformational effect. Therapy Using Psychedelics is the new frontier in mental health. Come along for the trip. Other People's Problems Season 5, available now. 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, who continue as finance, transport, and intergovernmental affairs ministers respectively.

Pierre Pollyaev 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. Polyev says there are too many prominent names who served under Justin Trudeau. Then there's Jolie, LeBlanc, Haidou, Anand. Anand was the president of the Treasury Board, during which time the bureaucracy and the consultant bills blew out of control in all. Fourteen Trudeau ministers are now in Carney's cabinet. It's more of the same when Canada needs real change. But Polyev says the Conservatives will not be opposing everything the new government does. He promises the opposition's support for actions that benefit Canadians.

Billions of dollars worth of investments in Canada's automotive sector are being postponed. Honda is hitting the brakes on major upgrades and changes to their facilities in Ontario. Anis Adari reports. Fifteen billion dollars of investments and upgrades to Ontario facilities delayed by Honda for two years. It's a big pause on a deal that both federal and provincial governments also invested in. I think the situation that we're in right now is fundamentally different than where it was even a year ago.

David Adams is the president of an industry group that includes Honda, Global Automakers of Canada. He points out that Canadians just aren't buying as many electric vehicles as they've been projected to. But it's not just consumer demand. Gal Raz says Honda may see an advantage in postponing making thousands of electric cars here. He's a professor at Ivy Business School in London, Ontario. And now with those tariffs, those kind of cars are not going to be competitive in the

US. Honda will have a hard time kind of, you know, making enough money, especially when we are not doing enough for the demand side. Honda doesn't blame tariffs for its decision to postpone Canadian investment, but it does blame tariffs for a recent drop in profit. Anis Hadari, CBC News, Calgary. U.S. sanctions on Syria will soon be gone. If 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 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

population is at critical risk of famine. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Stephanie Scanderis.