The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/20 at 03:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 20, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/20 at 03:00 EDT

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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 negotiations.

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 want, 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 I wouldn't even be talking about it. Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago. The two sides had peace talks last week in Turkey. Police have reopened the case of two men who drowned off Lake Ontario ten years ago.

New evidence has now proven what police initially thought happened was wrong. As Nicole Williams reports, the two men's families are hoping this will finally bring them justice. Ten years ago Jenny Wanamaker lost her brother 26 year old Mattie Fairman. He had gone out spearfishing on the Bay of Quinty with his friend Tyler Maracle. They said they were going out for probably an hour. But neither made it home. Their bodies found in the waters nearly two weeks later. Their boat discovered at the bottom of the bay connected to a net full of rotting fish that had belonged to someone else.

Police believe the two had cut the net and tried to haul in the fish causing it to sink and the two men to drown. Ontario's chief coroner now says that's wrong. We don't actually know what happened. and the two men to drown. Ontario's chief coroner now says that's wrong. We don't actually know what happened. That's because of new evidence from an investigation by the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. They put Maracle's boat through a series of tests,

including loading it with more than twice the weight of fish police say was in the net at the time. It never sank. Now Ontario Provincial Police order the case be reopened. Nicole Williams, CBC News, Tyendenaga, Ontario. New research published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal says Canadians could get hip and knee replacement surgeries faster. Christine Birak has more. Dr. David Urbach, head of surgery at Women's College Hospital in Toronto, co-authored the study.

Using data from over 17,000 procedures in Ontario, researchers simulated wait times by region. They found prolonged wait times for hip and knee replacements could be eliminated by replacing referrals with a single wait list that sends patients to the next available specialist for consultation and the surgery. We could actually get everybody who needs a joint replacement, we can get them to surgery quickly. All we have to do is reorganize how patients flow through the system. Data shows centralized wait lists in one region led to 90 percent of patients having their consultation and surgery in about six months rather than a year.

But it means surgeons would largely give up control of their own wait lists. Christine Birak, CBC News, Toronto. And that is Your World This Hour. I'm Neil Herland.