The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/18 at 08:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/18 at 08:00 EDT

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is actually a message to the world, alternative viewpoints and districts. to President Trump. Peruvian Gustavo Crispi says he hopes Pope Leo, a fellow Peruvian citizen, will bring justice to a country suffering state repression and threats to indigenous rights. The new pope spoke out against an economic paradigm that exploits the earth's resources and marginalizes the poorest. Megan Williams, CBC News, The Vatican.

Watching the mass from the front rows with fellow dignitaries was Prime Minister Carney. He's a devout Catholic who wrote a book inspired by Pope Francis who he met in 2014. Carney is leading a Canadian delegation in Rome and speaking to world leaders. Yesterday, Carney met with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as Italy's Prime Minister and President. Today, he met German Chancellor Frederick Merz, ahead of the G7 in Alberta next month. In this country, the search for two missing children in rural Nova Scotia is expected to pick up again today.

The pair, six-year-old Lily Sullivan and her four-year-old brother Jack, have been missing since the beginning of the month. RCMPs say this phase of the search is focusing on the immediate area around the road where the home is located, about 140 kilometers northeast of Halifax. A shipping accident in the East River in Brooklyn, New York has left two people dead and 19 others injured. Video posted to social media shows the moment a Mexican tall ship lost its way and crashed underneath the iconic Brooklyn Bridge, shearing off the ship's masts that then fell to the deck. 277 people were on board. Wilson

Aramboles, chief of special operations for the New York City Police Department. The ship was departing from Pier 17 where it was heading out to sea. The pilot, the captain that was maneuvering the ship, lost, I guess, power of the ship in the current. Mechanical function caused the ship to go right into the pillar of the bridge hitting the mass of the ship where there was a couple of sailors on top of it. The ship was on a multi-country tour scheduled to visit 22 ports in 15 countries. The Brooklyn Bridge did not suffer major damage. Canada now has a minister of artificial intelligence. It's a new role, but the demands are already piling up.

Catherine Tunney reports. applause I, Evan Solomon, do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to... Former broadcaster and newly elected Toronto Centre MP Evan Solomon was sworn in earlier this week as the minister responsible for artificial intelligence and digital innovation. So what does the job actually look like? There's no public mandate letters yet, but the prime minister's office pointed CBC to the liberal platform.

It says a Mark Carney government will be relentless in using AI to make government more efficient and improve service delivery to Canadians. Boye Gojo is a Canada research chair in governance and artificial intelligence at Carleton University. He says that could look like AI power chat bots helping Canadians get basic information from the government in any language they need at any hour of the day. And in a way that is really, really comprehensive, even more comprehensive than what a human agent at the other side may be able to provide. The platform also calls for more Canada-owned and operated AI data centers and infrastructure. Catherine Tunney, CBC News, Ottawa.

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