The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/15 at 11:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 15, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/15 at 11:00 EDT...

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Starting point is 00:00:00 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
Starting point is 00:00:20 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. At the request of Manitoba Premier Wab Kanu, all flags at the provincial legislature are at half-mast today. It's in honor of the two people believed to have been killed this week in a wildfire northeast of Winnipeg.
Starting point is 00:00:54 Fire officials say 21 active fires are currently burning across the province, with 1,200 people under evacuation orders. Here's Premier Kanu. Big part of the message today is asking folks who I know want to do the right thing and want to do what we can to help to listen to evacuation orders, particularly the latest orders that are coming in the Whiteshell Provincial Park. No matter where you are in Manitoba, we're also asking no fires, please. Incidentally, the RCMP say it will take days to confirm the identities of two people,
Starting point is 00:01:31 of the two people believed to have died in the fire, still burning outside White Shell Provincial Park. The two bodies are believed to be a man and a woman. It's news that's being met with concern and criticism on Parliament Hill. Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne is saying he will table an economic update this fall, but there will be no federal budget until next year. Janice McGregor has more. The bond rating agencies, they're not going to like the fact that the government is not
Starting point is 00:01:59 producing this type of financial document. Former parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page, the government has been financing its operations using special warrants all spring. The Commons has to pass a series of votes to properly authorize ongoing spending before the summer. But without a budget, MPs are going to vote on those without critical context. Pierre Poliev was scathing in a social media post saying Mark Carney had campaigned on the slogan of plan beats no plan but he's now confirmed that in
Starting point is 00:02:31 fact he has no plan by not tabling a budget and abandonment of the leadership that the Prime Minister had promised. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. Enbridge has agreed to sell a minority stake in its West Coast natural gas pipeline system to a group of 36 First Nations in B.C. The sale is worth more than $700 million and gives the First Nations group a 12 percent stake. The pipeline runs close to 3,000 kilometers from Fort Nelson, all the way south to the Canada-U.S. border.
Starting point is 00:03:01 The federal government is supporting the deal with a $400 million loan guarantee. It was hoped that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky would take part in a peace talk today in Turkey with Russian President Vladimir Putin. But while Zelensky is there, Putin isn't, with Moscow instead sending a delegation of low-level officials. Crystal Gmancing reports. The bull is now clearly in Russia's court. NATO chief Mark Ruda says there should be no doubt anymore Ukraine is ready to negotiate and it is Russia that must take the next step. Russia's foreign ministry spokesperson says Vladimir Putin was the one who initiated direct talks,
Starting point is 00:03:41 adding the Russian delegation in Istanbul is ready for serious work. It's not a serious delegation. Alex Younger is the former head of the British intelligence agency MI6. The head of the delegation is a former culture minister and amateur historian. Vladimir Medensky is a Kremlin aide. He's heading up the Russian delegation. He was involved in talks in 2022, which failed. The two leaders have not met face to face in six years. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, London.
Starting point is 00:04:15 On day three of his trip to the Middle East, U.S. President Donald Trump is in the United Arab Emirates, and he's hinting that an agreement is within reach that will see Iran abandon its nuclear weapons program. I think we're getting close to maybe doing a deal without having to do this. There's two steps. There's a very, very nice step, and there's a violent step, a violence like people haven't seen before. I hope we're not going to have to do this.
Starting point is 00:04:40 I don't want to do the second step. Some people do. Many people do. I don't want to do the second step. Some people do. Many people do. I don't want to do that step. In the past, Trump has threatened to bomb Iran if a nuclear agreement isn't reached. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.

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