The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/18 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/18 at 12:00 EDT

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From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. We begin with a tragic story out of Toronto. Three children are dead after the vehicle they were travelling in was hit by a suspected drunk driver. It happened just after 12.30 this morning local time at a highway off-ramp near Toronto's Pearson International Airport. Police say four children and two adults were in a vehicle that was stopped at a red light when they were hit. But here, Sir Banadan is with Toronto Police.

One person's decision to drink and drive, which is a fatal decision this person made. And we as a Toronto Police Service, we educate the public of the danger of drinking and driving and this is a result a family is torn apart. A 19-year-old man has been arrested and charged with multiple impaired and dangerous driving offenses. Prime Minister Mark Carney will be sitting down with US Vice President JD Vance today. Carney is in Rome leading a Canadian delegation and meeting with world leaders. Yesterday, he met with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky as well as Italy's Prime Minister and President. And earlier today, he met with German Chancellor Frederick Merz.

He says there's one main message the meetings have left him with. I will leave Rome tomorrow morning more convinced than ever that Canada has what the world wants and we seek to follow the values that the world respects. So there's a tremendous opportunity for Canada to help lead a world that is being reshaped. Carney also defended his decision not to present a budget this spring saying there is little value in rushing the process. Thousands of people including the Prime Minister gathered in St. Peter's Square to witness the inaugural mass of Pope Leo XIV. The elaborate ceremony marks the official start of his papacy. Megan Williams reports from the Vatican. A delighted

crowd shouted long live the Pope, as Leo XIV, riding in an open Pope-mobile, waved to thousands ahead of the mass that formally launched his papacy. The world badly needs hope, says Trish Stiles from Ireland, saying a US-born pope 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. The search for two missing children in rural Nova Scotia is expected to continue today.

Six-year-old Lily Sullivan and her four-year-old brother Jack have been missing since the beginning of the month. RCMP 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 remote community in the far north of Quebec has declared a state of emergency. It is struggling with a major water crisis as Samuel Samuel Watt reports, the situation is now threatening their health. Many residents in the northern Quebec village of Paverne-Toc have been going days, even weeks without water delivery. And Nunavik's acting public health director Dr. Yassin Chalikov

says the situation has gotten acutely worse in recent days. Now they're evacuating patients south to places like Montreal for care. A hospital or any advanced healthcare institution can't operate without running water for a prolonged period of time. The community has been facing a serious water supply problem after a critical pipe connecting the pump station to the treatment plant froze mid-March, so trucks have to go further out of town to collect water, slowing delivery.

And slushy, snow-clogged roads are hampering those efforts. The village is also fighting a rise in gastroenteritis, and prevention of that often relies on water. The Quibet government is sending planes loaded with bottled water to the community. Samia Watt, CBC News, Iqaluit. And that is The World This Hour. For news anytime, go to our website, cbcnews.ca. Thanks for listening today. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.