The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/17 at 10:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/17 at 10:00 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. Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Rome leading a Canadian delegation and meeting with world leaders. Carney will also attend

tomorrow's inaugural mass for Pope Leo XIV. Roland Paris is 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 a foundation 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. Tomorrow, he'll meet with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky. At least nine people are dead, four others are injured after a passenger bus in Ukraine's Sumy region was hit by a drone. Ukrainian officials are calling it a war crime by Russia. They say it was a deliberate strike on civilians. Reporter Dominic Velaitis 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 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 Vleiters for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. 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 on 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.

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. As Canadians hit the road this long weekend, an Ontario police force is using drones to catch people texting behind the wheel.

As Dan Tacoma reports, the approach is driving debate for those who say it's a breach of privacy. Drivers who recently passed through three intersections in Kingston, Ontario, had no idea they were being watched. But high above them, a police drone hovered, zooming in and catching 20 people using their phones. There are a lot of Kingston residents who find it creepy and are asking whether it's legal. And in our view, it isn't. Josh Dehaas is with the Canadian

Constitution Foundation. He sent a letter to Kingston's police chief saying it amounts to an unreasonable search. Kingston Police Chief Scott Fraser says police aren't snooping on people screens. We're trying to keep the roadway safe. Fraser says in the past, police have boarded public transit or even school buses to try and catch distracted drivers. What's the difference of me sitting in a truck looking down in your window than a drone at 120 feet looking down in your window? The chief says police did not seek any authorization before the approach took off. But if a court decides they can't

catch distracted drivers this way, the drone will stay grounded. Dan Tacoma, CBC News, Kingston, Ontario. And that is the World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.