The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/15 at 18:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 15, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/15 at 18:00 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 Gina Louise Phillips. Manitoba continues to grapple with a worsening wildfire situation. 40 firefighters from B.C. are assisting,

but the province is asking for more backup. The CBC's Rosanna Hempel brings us more. worsening wildfire situation. 40 firefighters from BC are 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 Lactobani, Lauren Schenkel, 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. Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet is calling for a do-over in the Montreal area riding of Turbonne.

Not another recount, but a whole new election. The situation is quite clear. The judge has established that the Bloc Québécois would have lost the riding by one vote. The vote appeared in the hands of a citizen. In that situation, the law requires the election to be done all over again. Elections Canada gave the riding to a liberal candidate after a recount showed she won by one vote. But the agency admits an error resulted in at least one ballot for the Bloc Québécois not being counted.

Blanchet says the party will be bringing this challenge before a judge to decide. Conservative leader Pierre Polyaev is demanding the Liberal government produce a full budget now instead of an economic statement this fall. Polyaev says he's disappointed by that and says it will have consequences for Prime Minister Mark Carney. He'll send a bad signal to investors and ratings agencies and a lot of people will wonder what the Liberal government is hiding about our finances. Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says the government's plan is to deliver a middle-class tax cut, then the throne speech to outline the government's actions.

It will be followed by the economic statement this fall. Indigenous leaders in Alberta are pushing back against talk of separatism. Onion Lake Cree Nation has announced it's reviving a constitutional challenge to an Alberta law that says it threatens treaty rights. Paige Parsons reports. Her government is willing to manipulate laws, intimidate First Nations and control public opinion to push the separatist agenda. Onion Lake Cree Nation Okima or Chief Henry Lewis says his nation is

moving ahead with a constitutional challenge launched three years ago to Premier Danielle Smith's Alberta's sovereignty within a United Canada Act. Onion Lake argues it threatens treaty rights. It's now demanding Alberta file a statement of defense. Many First Nations also object to new legislation that could make it easier for Albertans to force a referendum on separating from Canada. Calgary political scientist Laurie Williams says last-minute amendments the province is making to the bill are a move in the right direction. It's important that the government appears to be recognizing that there are issues and problems.

But she says it's not enough to clear up First Nations leaders' many concerns about the bill. Paige Parsons, CBC News, Edmonton. 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. And Alberta has now surpassed 400 measles cases after reporting 14 new infections. Health officials say the majority of the infected are unimmunized individuals as well as children.

And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.