The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/15 at 10:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 15, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/15 at 10:00 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. Under the shadow of the Trump tariff campaign, today is Budget Day for the Ontario government. It's the first Ontario budget since the start of the trade war and the first for the progressive conservatives since Premier Doug Ford's re-election. Jamie Strashan reports.

Let's not rely on President Trump any longer. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says reducing reliance on American trade and becoming more self reliant will be priorities in today's budget. There's been a flurry of pre-budget spending already billions of dollars to speed up housing growth, retrain workers and reduce tolls. Also a plan to defer billions in taxes. Ontario finance minister, Peter Bethenfalse. That is what the budget is going to be about. Boosting our economic prosperity, thinking big and championing nation-building projects.

All of this will come at a cost. Ontario's relatively small $1.5 billion deficit could swell. And Shelf plans to balance the books by next year, says the province's former chief economist Brian Lewis. We are seeing slower economic growth, so that's going to affect government revenue projection. Beyond Trump, Lewis says health care is a priority. Things like addressing hospital wait times, also much needed money for the province's universities and colleges.

Jamie Strash in CBC News, Toronto. Meanwhile in Ottawa, the Carney government has identified housing as one of its immediate priorities. But the opposition is already suggesting that Housing Minister Gregor Robertson, the former the Carney government has identified housing as one of its immediate priorities. The opposition is already suggesting that Housing Minister Gregor Robertson, the former mayor of Vancouver, has a credibility problem. Rafi Boujikaneen has more. We need to build a lot more across Canada.

Housing Minister Gregor Robertson fresh into the job with a strong opinion on what should happen. We need to deliver more supply. We need to be delivering more affordable housing. Robertson was the mayor of Vancouver from 2008 to 2018. During that time, data from the Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation shows the average price of single-family and semi-detached homes rose 179%

across the Metro Vancouver area. That's already put him in the crosshairs of opposition leader Pierre Poliev, but Robertson is defending his record. I wasn't getting the help I needed from the federal government when I was mayor or the provincial government of all stripes. Robertson will be spearheading a new government agency in charge of building affordable homes, a campaign promise from Prime Minister Mark Carney. Carney has also pledged to remove the GST on the purchase of a home at or under $1 million

for first-time buyers. Rafi Bajikani on CBC News, Ottawa. Our colleagues at Radio Canada are reporting that the Bloc Québécois will launch a legal challenge to the election results in the Montreal area riding of Terbonne. The Bloc candidate lost that riding by just one vote, and one voter has come forward saying challenge to the election results in the Montreal area riding of Terbun. The block candidate lost that riding by just one vote, and one voter has come forward saying her mail-in ballot was sent back to her uncounted. She says she voted for the block. Elections Canada has announced that the results will stand, with the liberal candidate declared the winner.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is in Turkey for peace talks with his Russian counterpart, but Vladimir Putin isn't there. Instead, Moscow has sent a delegation of low-level officials, which doesn't surprise U.S. President Trump. Nothing's going to happen until Putin and I get together, okay? And obviously he wasn't going to go. He was going to go, but he thought I was going to go. He wasn't going if I wasn't there.

That's Trump speaking today in the Middle East. It's now unclear if the Russian and Ukrainian delegations will be meeting at all. Zelensky says this is Putin's war and only Putin can end it. He may be born in the USA, but Bruce Springsteen is certainly no fan of the Trump administration. Here's Springsteen last night on stage in Manchester, England. Springsteen publicly endorsed Kamala Harris in last year's election calling Trump, quote, the most dangerous candidate for president in my lifetime. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.