The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/15 at 03:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 15, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/15 at 03:00 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 Neal Herland. The final results from one of the closest races in the federal election could take days. A judicial recount is underway in Newfoundland and Labrador in the riding

of Terranova's The Peninsulas. More than 1,000 ballots are being disputed. Heather Gillis reports. Three days in and there's still no result in the recount in Terranova, The Peninsulas. On election night, Roe was leading for most of the evening, but then Jermain started to catch up, pulling ahead slightly towards the end of the night. With one poll of special ballots remaining, the vote was paused. When counting resumed the following day, Germain, the liberal, had won. It was the tightest margin of victory in the country at the time. Just 12 votes. A win so tight, it automatically triggered a recount. The vote recounting

started at St. Gabriel's Hall on Monday. Lawyers presented arguments about disputed ballots to Supreme Court Judge Garrett Handrigan. Handrigan is overseeing this recount. It's unclear when the lawyers could finish up their arguments or when the judge could deliver a decision. Heather Gillis, CBC News, Marystown. In Canada's housing market, condos are the weakest link. The steepest drop in sales and prices have been in Toronto. And the trends in Vancouver are troubling too. Nisha Patel has more.

We haven't seen that much inventory in 20 years. Toronto real estate agent Sean Miller says new listings are piling up on the condo market. Units that once would have sold in days can now take weeks. We've got seven months of inventory, which is insane. And we just don't have the buyers to absorb it. Experts say it's a buyer's market, but there are few buyers to be found, says Bank of Montreal senior economist Robert Kavchik. Federal policy makers have put a cap on immigration. Population growth is falling off very quickly. You have a historically high

number of purpose-builder rental units. Investors are trying to unload their units turned off by falling rents and higher borrowing costs. In Toronto, prices have slipped 16% from the market peak in 2022. In Vancouver, they're down 9%. Still, economists forecast that in some markets, condo prices could fall another 10% this year. Nisha Patel, CBC News, Toronto. The haka is a ceremonial dance often seen on the sports field by millions around the world before big matches by New Zealand teams.

But a political party in the country has found itself in hot water after performing the dance in parliament to protest a bill. Georgie Smythe explains. In New Zealand's parliament, a member of the Te Pari Maori Party begins performing the traditional haka song and dance while tearing up a draft bill that sought to reinterpret New Zealand's founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi. This happened in November, but a 21 and 7 day ban for the three participants has just been handed down.

Judith Collins, the head of the committee that recommended the punishment, says the decisions were not made lightly. And we've never seen action like this in Parliament. The bill the group was protesting, which sought to change the rights of Maori and non-Maori in the country, was eventually defeated, but not before sparking massive protests across New Zealand. The decision of whether to carry out the temporary suspension of the Maori Party members will be voted on next week.

Georgie Smythe, CBC News, Vancouver. In the Stanley Cup Playoffs, the Edmonton Oilers are moving on to the Western Conference Finals. It's loose, it's in, Edmonton has won the game and the series. Casperi Kapanen in overtime. Edmonton beat the Vegas Golden Knights 1-0 last night to wrap their second round series in five games. Meantime, the Florida Panthers beat the Toronto Maple Leaf 6-1 in game five of their second

round series. It's embarrassing. It was really tough to watch tonight. Florida now leads that series 3-2. Game six is Friday in Florida. And that is your World This Hour for CBC News. I'm Neal Herland.