The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/14 at 00:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/14 at 00:00 EDT

Cafe William wants to know, what's your favorite roast? We're touring selected Metro grocers across Ontario. Come by for a tasting and find the brew that's just right for you. It's the perfect moment for great coffee. For more info, go to CafeWilliam.com. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Neal Herland. We begin in Ottawa with a look at Prime Minister Mark Carney's new cabinet. 28 ministers and 10 secretaries of state were sworn in Tuesday at Rideau Hall.

Many of them are brand new MPs. David Thurton has more. With a new team, purpose built for this hinge moment in Canada's history. Prime Minister Mark Carney outside Rideau Hall after the swearing-in. His new cabinet has new and old faces. Justin Trudeau-era cabinet minister Francois-Philippe Champagne remains finance minister. Anita Onon swaps jobs with Melanie Jolie. Onon going to foreign affairs as Canada hosts the G7 summit next month.

Her predecessor... I, Melanie Jolie, do solemnly and sincerely promise and declare heads to industry. Krisha Freeland keeps her job at transport. Kearney's new cabinet has 28 members. Many are rookie ministers, like former Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson. Execute the powers and trusts reposed in me as Minister of Housing and Infrastructure. Kearney is reviving a dormant ministerial role.

Ten Secretaries of State are supporting the new cabinet, including one focused on crime. David Thurton, CBC News, Ottawa. Conservative leader Pierre Polyav says the new cabinet has too many prominent names who served under Justin Trudeau. Then there's Jolie, LeBlanc, Haidou, Anan. Anan 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 support for actions that benefit Canadians and he encouraged Carney to steal his ideas on housing, inflation and crime. Honda is postponing a 15 billion dollar investment project in electric vehicles.

The plan was to build an EV supply chain in Alliston, Ontario. The company says it's delaying plans by two years due to a slowdown in the EV market. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he spoke with Honda. They promised us they're going to continue on with their expansion, they'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. Honda says the decision has no impact on jobs or current production at the manufacturing

facility in Aliston. The automotive parts makers blame U.S. tariffs. We're following a major legal story in Los Angeles tonight. A superior court judge has just re-sentenced Eric and Lyle Menendez to 50 years from murdering their parents. The case sparked a wave of true crime stories and even a Netflix series last year. Steve Futterman reports. The ruling means that Eric and Lyle Menendez, who have already served more than 35 years in prison, are immediately eligible for parole. The judge's decision came after both brothers

speaking by a video link from their prison took full responsibility for their actions, sometimes describing in graphic detail how the killings took place. Their attorney Mark Garagos said the judge did the right thing. I just know that on a day like today that redemption is possible. the the Menendez legal team. You have brought hope to this family that we didn't see coming. Even if a parole board rules that the brothers should be released, California Governor Gavin

Newsom does have the power to reject it. Steve Futterman for CBC News, Los Angeles. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he will be in Turkey on Thursday, waiting for Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Volodymyr Zelensky is hoping to secure a 30-day ceasefire if Putin meets him face-to-face in Turkey. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Herland.