The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/17 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/17 at 12:00 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. U.S. President Donald Trump says he plans to speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday. The pressure is on to reach an agreement for a cease-firing Ukraine after a drone strike killed at least nine people in the northern Sumi region. Ukraine is calling it a Russian war crime.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy saying the strike was a deliberate act. Dominic Volaitis has the update. Donald Trump announcing all this as usual on social media, this will be a telephone call with Russia's Vladimir Putin. It's not a face-to-face meeting, which I think was Washington's preferred option, but it is a meeting, another meeting between the two nonetheless. It will take place on Monday at 10 a.m. The subject of the call, according to Donald Trump, will be stopping the war in Ukraine, a conflict that he described on social media as a bloodbath and one he claims is killing more than 5,000 people a week, 5,000 soldiers

from both sides a week. So Donald Trump, again, getting directly involved in the ongoing diplomacy surrounding this war, he and some of his senior officials like US Secretary of State Marco Rubio have in fact been floating this idea of another meeting for a few days now and it now looks like it is going to happen as I say on Monday at 10 o'clock. Dominic Velaitis for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. Prime Minister Mark Carney will be meeting with Ukraine's president tomorrow in Rome, as well as EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Carney is leading a Canadian delegation and meeting with world leaders while also attending

the inaugural mass for Pope Leo XIV. Today, Carney will meet with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Maloney as well as the country's president. While 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.

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. But as Dan Tacama reports, the approach is driving debate from 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's screens. We're trying to keep the roadways 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 news anytime, go to our website cbcnews.ca.

For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.