The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/16 at 04:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 16, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/16 at 04:00 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 Claude Fague. Hudson's Bay may be done as a department store, but those famous multicolored stripes may be coming soon to a Canadian tire

store near you. Georgie Smythe now with the $30 million deal to preserve some of the iconic Canadian brand. The iconic HBC stripes could now live on through Canadian Tire, with the company announcing an agreement to buy the bay's logos, designs, coat of arms and trademarks for $30 million. There's quite a bit of treasure there that can be used in the future by Canadian Tire. In a statement, President and CEO of Canadian Tire said, this choice feels as strategic as it feels patriotic. It builds on our generational connection to life in Canada and it fits our new True North strategy.

The deal comes after Canada's oldest company filed for creditor protection in March. It had been looking for buyers for parts of its business as it liquidated all 80 of its stores across the country. A court still needs to approve the deal, which wouldn't close until later this year. It's not known if money raised from the agreement will flow to workers fighting for severance pay. Georgie Smyth, CBC News, Vancouver. The Canadian military insists it's getting a handle on its recruiting crisis. But a new leaked internal report obtained by CBC News suggests a higher than expected number of those who came through the door quickly leave in frustration

over the inability to get trained and into the job that they want. Murray Brewster has more. There's no point recruiting if you're not retaining people. A statement of the obvious from Canada's top military commander, General Jenny Carey-Nan, as she was questioned recently about efforts to keep people in uniform while the forces deals with a shortage of as many as 14,000 troops. A new internal report obtained by CBC News shows the military and the Defense Department are doing themselves no favors in that category. The evaluation says the highest attrition rates within

the military involve its lowest ranks and newest members. Essentially, people are coming through the door, but many quit in frustration over the inability to get trained. Some are waiting as long as 206 days, but in the meantime are underemployed. Three years ago, DND unveiled a strategy to keep members in uniform. As part of it, a research office was set up to help advise on how best to retain people. It was defunded recently with no explanation from the department. Murray Brewster, CBC News, Ottawa. As wildfires continue to rage in and around Lakhtabani, people in the community are pitching

in to help. Hanish Patel recently took over Campbell's Foods in the town center, the largest grocery store in the area, and says he's been helping firefighters and evacuees. It's like providing them waters and the people who are being evacuated out of their houses we are making sure that they have a food there at the evacuation center so we have been donating all those things or and there and actually there is many people in community who are stepping up to help these people out. Close to a thousand people have been forced out of their homes and cottages in the rural municipality by the fire.

Guyana says armed men in civilian clothes have launched three attacks on its troops in the disputed oil-rich Ezequibo, a region where Venezuela plans to hold elections next week. There are no reports of injuries. Sparsely populated Essequibo region makes up two-thirds of Guyana's territory. To the Stanley Cup Playoffs, the Winnipeg Jets forced the sixth game in their Western Conference Semifinal, beating the Dallas Stars 4-0 last night, cutting their lead to three games to two, much to the delight of the whiteout sellout crowd in Winnipeg and Connor Hellebuck made 22 saves for the shutout.

We had everyone. Everyone was doing the same things. You know they're going to have a big pushback next game so we got to make sure our details are right and you know we bring it. You know our backs against the wall and decide to play jet hockey. The series shifts back to Dallas for game six Saturday night. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.