The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/17 at 06:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/17 at 06:00 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. We begin in Ukraine. At least nine people have been killed and several others injured following a Russian attack on a civilian bus. Ukrainian officials say the drone attack occurred in the Sumi region Saturday. Russia says the strike was on a Ukrainian military staging area. It came just hours after Ukraine and Russia held their first direct peace talks in three

years. Search efforts for two young children who went missing in Nova Scotia will resume today. Six-year-old Lily Sullivan and her four-year-old brother Jack disappeared from their home in Lansdowne Station on May 2nd. On Tuesday, police said they are following up on more than 180 tips from the public. Robert Parker is the warden for the municipality of the County of Pictou. He says tension in the community won't be solved until they find them. It's a mixed emotions certainly in this county I believe. It started out full of hope everybody trying so hard all the search parties and everything but after a week went by I think people knew the time was

coming there were the search was going to have to be wound down and at that point it changed to well certainly disappointment, sadness and now I think it's come to what did happen to our little ones. RCMP have been saying there is no evidence to suggest the children were abducted but police haven't ruled out suspicion. Search teams will be back in the area where the pair were last seen today and tomorrow. There may not be a federal budget coming this year but at least one cabinet minister says the government owes Canadians some more information. Newly appointed industry

minister Melanie Jolie made the comments in an interview with CBC radios the House. Host Catherine Cullen reports. There are plenty of voices criticizing the government's decision not to put forward a budget this year. Scotiabank Vice President Derek Holt wrote that he doesn't like it one bit and that Canadians have a right to know the state of the government's finances. In an interview, industry minister Melanie Jolie didn't explicitly defend the decision not to put forward a budget this year. Canadians ought to know what's going on with the economy. I think it's important that we share that information.

Yet the government has only committed to a fall economic statement, and the last one of those was in December. Jolie seems to suggest something will happen sooner. I'm convinced that we'll have more to say on the state of the government's finances in the coming days. Just how soon is something Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne has to determine, she says. Parliament is set to return in just over a week. Catherine Cullen, CBC News, Ottawa. And you can hear more on the House right after the 9 o'clock edition of World Report 930 in Newfoundland. The credit rating agency Moody's

has stripped the United States of its AAA credit rating, warning investors about rising government debt and a widening budget deficit. The agency has shifted the US rating down one notch while changing its outlook from negative to stable. We end in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. As seen on CBC and Rogers Sportsnet, the Toronto Maple Leaf scored twice in the third period to beat the Florida Panthers 2-0 last night, sending the series back to Toronto for a seventh and deciding game and a trip to the Eastern Conference final. Captain Austin Matthews, whose first goal of the series turned out to be the winner, was asked about his team's effort.

Gutsy, I mean just a gutsy, gutsy win all around. I thought you know we just battled hard all three periods. It took till you know midway through the third to break through but I just thought you know all our lineup, everybody played hard, everybody competed. Joe was great tonight. Big win. Game seven will be played in Toronto Sunday night. The Ottawa charge have clinched a spot in the finals of the PWHL playoffs. The charge beat the Montreal Victoire 2-1 last night to earn a berth in the final of

the Walter Cup. They'll face the defending champion, Minnesota Frost. The series begins in Ottawa, Ottawa, Tuesday night. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.