The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/17 at 08:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/17 at 08:00 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. Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Rome. Leading a Canadian delegation. It includes indigenous and religious leaders along with senators and liberal MPs. Carney, who is a practicing Catholic, will attend tomorrow's inaugural mass for Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican. Roland Paris is a director of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. He says this trip

is an opportunity for Carney to lay some of the groundwork for the G7 summit he'll host next month in Alberta. I think first and foremost, this is a chance for him to build those relationships to get to know them a little bit better. Today, Carney will meet with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Maloney as well as the country's president. At least nine people are dead, four others are injured after a passenger bus in Ukraine's Sumi region was hit by a drone. Ukrainian officials are calling it a war crime by Russia. They say that it was a deliberate strike on civilians.

Reporter Dominic Vlaidis has more. The Ukrainians are saying this bus was evacuating civilians in the northern Sumi region from a town just a few kilometers from the front line, in fact, when it was hit by at least one Russian drone. And Ukrainian media is now reporting that the majority of those killed and injured on board were elderly women. This was, John, Ukraine says, a cynical war crime, a deliberate strike on civilian transport that posed no threats. deliberate strike on civilian transport that posed no threat. Russia's Defense Ministry meanwhile says its forces had used drones in Sumi but they were being used to strike Ukrainian military targets at the time but certainly no

mention in that statement John about what may or may not have happened to this bus and those on board. Dominic Vleiditas for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. 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's no evidence to suggest the children were abducted, but police haven't ruled out suspicion. 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 radio's 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. The credit rating agency Moody's has stripped the United States of its triple-A credit rating, warning investors about rising government debt and a widening budget deficit. The agency has shifted the U.S. rating down one notch while changing its outlook from negative to stable.

For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise-Phillips. Thanks for listening.