The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/20 at 01:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 20, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/20 at 01:00 EDT

In this acclaimed new production of Anna Karenina, the National Ballet of Canada asks, what is fair in love and society? Renowned choreographer, Christian Spook adapts Tolstoy's epic novel to dance in a spectacular work complete with lush costumes, cinematic projections, and a glorious curated score, featuring the music of Rachmaninoff. On stage June 13th to 21st, tickets on sale now at national.ballet.ca

sponsored by IG Private Wealth Management. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Herland. The clock is ticking on a new strike by Canada Post workers. 55,000 unionized employees could walk off the job starting this Friday. Kate Holowadiak is with the Canadian Union of postal employees, Victoria Local. There's definitely still time. 72 hours notice can be a long time, especially when so many conversations have already been had about these issues. The latest threat follows a strike last November and December that lasted 32 days. That job action ended when the Canada Industrial Relations Board ordered the

two sides back to work on December 15th during the busy Christmas mailing season. The current collective agreement was extended until this Thursday. John Hamilton speaks for Canada Post. We need to negotiate an agreement and not have another strike because it would be debilitating to the Canadian economy at a time where it just doesn't need it and it would only worsen our financial situation which is to the tune of a billion dollars in losses a year. The union and the Postal Service have been holding talks but without much progress. Last week a federally commissioned report on Canada Post recommended major changes, including the end of daily door-to-door letter mail delivery for individuals.

U.S. President Donald Trump says Russia and Ukraine will immediately begin ceasefire talks. Trump made the announcement after making separate calls with the leaders of both countries and he's expressing optimism about Russian President Vladimir Putin. I believe Putin wants to do it. Now if I thought Putin didn't, I mean that's what I do. My whole life is like deals, one big deal, and if I thought that President Putin did not want to get this over with I wouldn't even be talking about it. Russia launched a full-scale investigation of Ukraine three years ago. The two sides had peace talks last week in Turkey.

Canada is among nearly two dozen countries calling on Israel to fully reopen humanitarian aid delivery to Gaza. The statement also stresses the need for the UN to be allowed to do its work in the territory. On Monday, some aid trucks entered Gaza for the first time in 11 weeks. James Elder is with UNICEF. He says the rate of malnutrition in children is rising. We need some of the thousands and thousands of trucks that are at that border to flow into Gaza. It can't just be tokenistic. It can't just be in the South. We need those 400 distribution points in Gaza to be utilized, not drip, drip, drip, to prevent political pressure.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says famine must be avoided from a practical and diplomatic standpoint. Israel says the blockade was meant to put pressure on Hamas to release hostages still held in Gaza. The Toronto Star is identifying the three siblings killed in an alleged impaired driving crash in the city. A longtime family friend making the confirmation to the newspaper, Elie Sheahsan reports. Ramon, Jace and Maya Lavina, all siblings, are the three children who died in Sunday morning's crash. Their mother, Jade Galv, suffered broken ribs and a concussion, but is expected to live, along with her 10-year-old son, Avery, who suffered a broken arm and collarbone. This new information, published by the Toronto

Star, comes as an outpouring of support grows in a GoFundMe set up for the Lavina family. Meanwhile, 19-year-old Ethan L'Huillier faces multiple impaired driving charges. Toronto police say he was drunk behind the wheel of a Dodge caravan, allegedly speeding down a highway off-ramp onto Renforth Drive in Etobicoke, where the accident happened. L'Huillier was arrested on scene. People have been laying flowers at the crash site. Also sharing her condolences, Jennifer Neville Lake,

who lost her three children in a drunk driving crash ten years ago, posting on X, quote, I'm so, so sorry, in grief and solidarity. Ali Shiasan, CBC News, Toronto. A classic kids show will find itself in a new location. The answer is Netflix. The new streaming deal gives Sesame Street a new home. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neal Herland.