The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/18 at 15:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/18 at 15:00 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 Julianne Hazelwood. The Prime Minister is in Rome. He joined thousands of people in St. Peter's Square to witness the inaugural mass of Pope Leo XIV. The new pontiff vowed to work for unity so the Catholic Church becomes a sign of peace in the world. Leo also spoke out against an economic paradigm that exploits the Earth's resources and marginalizes

the poorest. Prime Minister Mark Carney is defending his decision not to present a budget this spring. There is not much value in my judgment and it's considered judgment and it's judgment based on experience that there is not much value in trying to rush through a budget in a very narrow window three weeks weeks, with a new cabinet. Carney then said his government will table a budget in the fall. That's a change in direction.

Liberals faced criticism in the last week after the finance minister said he would present a fall economic statement, which is more like a mini-budget. Carney pointed to the upcoming NATO meeting as well as further discussions with the Americans as reasons to table a federal budget this fall. In Toronto, three children were killed in an alleged impaired driving crash. It happened overnight at a highway off-ramp near Pearson Airport. Police Acting Inspector Behir Serbanidan lays out the sequence of events. There was a minivan with the family of four children and two adults stopped at a red light. band with the family of four children and two adults stopped at a red light is alleged the Dodge Careman was traveling at a high rate of speed lost control

went over the raised median collided with the minivan that was stopped. A 19 year old man now faces multiple impaired and dangerous driving charges. The search for two missing children in rural Nova Scotia has resumed. Six-year-old Lily Sullivan and her four-year-old brother Jack have been missing since the beginning of the month. More than 100 searchers are again going through the woods. Search coordinator Amy Hansen says the conditions are horrible. The dead fall from Hurricane Fiona is hampering a lot of people. The ticks are always a problem. We had some fresh bear prints found. RCMP say this phase of the search is focusing on the immediate area around the road where

the home is located, about 140 kilometres northeast of Halifax. At this point the search is not expected to continue tomorrow. Israel has launched a ground offensive in Gaza. It follows days of airstrikes, part of an operation called Gideon's Chariots. This comes as indirect peace talks continue in Qatar. Anna Cunningham reports. Armoured tanks lining up along Israel's border with Gaza. Just before the Israel Defense Forces confirmed a ground offensive was underway in the north and south.

Israeli airstrikes overnight prepared the ground. The IDF says over the past week it has struck 670 amassed terror targets. Amawassi, near the southern city of Karn Younes, was one area hit. This a supposed humanitarian safe zone. Tents caught fire. Those who couldn't escape were burned alive. In Doha, Qatar, indirect talks have been taking place over the weekend. The office for the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

in a statement suggesting Israel was open to a deal with Hamas that would include ending the fighting in Gaza, but it included conditions that have been repeatedly refused by Hamas. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London. Investigators are looking at possible manifestos following yesterday's explosion at an IVF clinic in Palm Springs, California. A car bomb went off, killing one man believed to be the suspect. Clues are emerging about the motive. Akil Davis is with the FBI.

The subject had nihilistic ideations and this was a targeted attack against the IDF facility. We believe he was attempting to live stream it and yes that is also part of our investigation. The four people injured in the explosion have all been released from hospital and officials add none of the staff, embryos or eggs in the clinic were hurt. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.