The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/20 at 08:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 20, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/20 at 08:00 EDT

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Your Majesties, welcome back to Canada House. That is Ralph Goodale, Canada's High Commissioner to Britain, welcoming King Charles and Queen Camilla to Canada House this morning. The red carpet visit is part of the celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of Canada House. It also comes a week ahead of Charles' trip to Ottawa. He'll be delivering the speech from the throne next Tuesday, opening the new session of Parliament. It will be his 20th visit to Canada but his first as king. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a joint statement signed by Canada, Britain and France is, quote, a huge prize for Hamas.

The statement, one of two signed by Canada over the weekend, warns there'll be a response if Israel continues with its military offensive in Gaza. Janice McGregor has more. Canada's latest positions on this came in the form of two joint statements with other allies. First, the statement from the leaders of Canada, the United Kingdom, and France that strongly opposed the expansion of Israel's military operations in Gaza. Separately, foreign ministers from 22 countries were also condemning Israel's

new model for delivering aid into Gaza, noting that the UN doesn't believe it's going to move the food at the speed and scale required. The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, that's a Canadian group supportive of Israel, said the fact that Hamas had applauded the joint statement spoke volumes about its misguided premise. When Mark Carney met Israel's president on the sidelines of the Pope's inaugural mass at the Vatican on Sunday, the readout from that meeting was clear that Carney had reiterated the need for Hamas to release all hostages and lay down all its weapons. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa.

Meanwhile, there have been multiple explosions overnight across southern Gaza. The airstrikes come as the Israeli military says it has struck more than 650 Hamas targets over the past week. Israel says it's an ongoing operation aimed at eliminating Hamas' military capabilities. Local medical workers are saying more than 500 people have been killed over the past eight days. In the middle of all this, ceasefire talks are underway gradually in Doha.

Canada Post is once again on the verge of being shut down. The union representing 55,000 postal workers is saying the membership is ready to walk off the job as of Friday, and what would be a resumption of their job action that, if you remember, started back in November. New research published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal is suggesting there is a way to significantly reduce wait times for hip and knee replacement surgeries, and it wouldn't require new facilities or funding. Christina Birak explains.

We have all the resources there. We have the people. We have the funding. Dr. David Urbach, head of surgery at Women's College Hospital in Toronto, co-authored the study. 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% of patients having

their consultation and surgery in about six months rather than a year. If it's shown to be effective, I support any measure that actually reduces wait times. 56 year old Tina Moffat spent over a year in agonizing pain awaiting hip surgery. Change takes time, but she says too many patients can't get their surgeries fast enough. Christine Birak, CBC News, Binbrook, Ontario. And that is the World This Hour. You can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts. The World This Hour is updated every hour, seven days a week.

And for news anytime, go to our website, cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.