The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/15 at 14:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 15, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/15 at 14:00 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, the world this hour, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. Manitoba continues to grapple with a worsening wildfire situation. Forty firefighters from B.C. are assisting assisting but the province is asking for more backup. The CBC's Rosanna Hempel brings us more. This loss of life changes what was an emergency into a tragedy. The day after the bodies of two people trapped by a Lactobonni wildfire northeast of

Winnipeg were recovered. Premier Wabkanoo is pleading with Manitobans. No fires please. Several large, out-of-control wildfires continue to burn in southeastern Manitoba, near the Ontario border. That's where the province is declaring a state of emergency in one of Manitoba's largest parks, Whiteshell Provincial Park. Evacuations there are already underway. Reeve of the RM of Lactobonnie, Lawrence Schinkel, says it's devastating. It goes without saying the loss of life in that area. You can't really describe it in words. Police say they continue to investigate the deaths.

Rosanna Hempel, CBC News, Winnipeg. The Bloc Quebecois is launching a legal challenge to the election results in the Montreal area riding of Terrebonne. Here's Bloc leader Yves-Francois Blanchet. We have to bring this situation in front of a judge in a court in order to get, in order to do the election all over again. The block candidate lost the riding by just one vote, but one voter has come forward saying her mail-in ballot was sent back to her uncounted, and she says she voted for the block.

As of now, Elections Canada says the results will stand, with the Liberal candidate declared the winner. The number of measles cases in Ontario has jumped by 182 over the past week. The province now has more than 1,600 confirmed and probable cases. Southwestern Ontario remains the epicenter of the outbreak but cases have also been detected elsewhere in the province. Health officials say the majority of the infected are unimmunized individuals as well as children. Onion Lake Cree Nation is the latest First Nation in Alberta to warn the province over

its proposed legislation. Daniel Smith's government wants to make it easier to launch referendums as calls for Alberta separatism grow. But Onion Cree Nation chief Henry Lewis says such a referendum would violate historic treaty rights. Respectfully remind the premier that this land that we stand on today is treaty land and is not yours to take or make sweeping decisions about. This is a violation of our treaty, a threat to peace and friendship we agreed upon under treaty.

Lewis says the First Nation is demanding Alberta respond to its ongoing constitutional challenge. A rally is being held outside Alberta's legislature later today against the proposed legislation. The highly anticipated peace talks between Ukraine and Russia are going ahead in Turkey, but the leaders in both countries are not taking part. Sarah Levitt has the details. Outside the Istanbul venue where Russian-Ukrainian peace talks are set to take place, photographers and journalists await arrivals. Not coming today is Russian President Vladimir Putin. Despite that, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he will send a team, just a smaller delegation. Earlier this week, Zelensky challenged Putin to come meet him face to face to discuss the ongoing war.

I'm here. I think this is very clear message. The two leaders haven't met in person since 2019. U.S. President Donald Trump says he may be there tomorrow for the talks and signaled that any movement towards peace won't happen today. Look, nothing's going to happen until Putin and I get together, okay? Trump's attempt at peace brokering between the countries has so far happened in fits and starts with this no show from Putin further signs a breakthrough is unlikely soon. Sarah Levitt, CBC News, Montreal.

And that is your World This Hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts, updated every hour, seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.