The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/18 at 19:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/18 at 19:00 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 Julianne Hazelwood. Former US President Joe Biden has

been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. It has metastasized to the bone but is believed to be manageable. His office as the Biden family is assessing treatment options. Last year Biden dropped out of his bid for re-election and made concerns about his health and mental fitness for the job. After a nearly three-month blockade,

Israel now says it will allow what it calls a basic amount of food into Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office says it's looking to prevent a hunger crisis. There's no timeline as to when the aid will start flowing. It comes as the army launches a major ground offensive. Here is Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shahani. Our troops are operating deep in Gaza, eliminating threats, destroying terror infrastructure and taking control of key areas.

This is what we plan on doing. Give advanced warnings to uninvolved civilians to make sure they get out of harm's way. Control the battlefield. Protect Israeli civilians and dismantle Hamas' leadership and capabilities. Officials in Gaza say Israeli airstrikes killed at least 100 people overnight into Sunday. Meanwhile, informal peace talks are continuing in Doha, Qatar. The Prime Minister is in Rome. He joined thousands of people at 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 says the government will present a budget this fall. Liberals faced criticism in the last week after the finance minister said he would not table a spring budget but rather a fall economic statement. That's more like a mini budget. Carney defended the decision to wait until the fall to prevent, to present that is, the full budget. 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, with a new cabinet.

Carney pointed to the upcoming NATO meeting as well as further discussions with the U.S. has reasons to table a federal budget this fall. In Romania, the mayor of Bucharest will soon be moving into the country's presidential palace. Nikosur Dan has won Romania's presidential runoff. The vote was closely watched across Europe because of Dan's rival, who won the first round vote. That man, George Simeon, is an EU skeptic and opposes sending military aid to Ukraine.

In Toronto, a man is charged with impaired driving after three children were killed in a collision. It happened overnight on a highway off-ramp. Karen Mahler reports. The crash between two minivans in Toronto early Sunday morning resulted in the children's deaths. Toronto Police Inspector Behir Sarbanandan. Two other children, a 15-year-old and a 13-year-old was pronounced deceased on scene. The third child was transported to a nearby trauma center and pronounced deceased at the hospital. The three other passengers, a fourth child, the mother of all four,

and a family friend are in hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. It's alleged that Dodge Caravan failed to stop at the red light, went over the raised median, and collided with the car that was facing northbound. Police have charged a 19-year-old man with three counts of impaired driving causing death and three counts causing bodily harm, as well as three counts of dangerous driving causing death and three causing bodily harm. Cameron Mahler, CBC News, Kitchener, Ontario. The RCMP says a two-day ground search for two missing children in Nova Scotia has ended and crews will not be

back tomorrow. Six-year-old Lily Sullivan and her four-year-old brother Jack went missing earlier this month. There was a large-scale air and ground search that was scaled back five days later. The RCMP says more than 115 volunteers spent the weekend searching around Lansdowne Station, northeast of Halifax. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.