The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/21 at 11:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/21 at 11:00 EDT

In 1977, the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club opened up a chapter in Montreal. Their enforcer was a man named Yves Trudeau. And over the course of his criminal career, Trudeau would murder no fewer than 43 people. And he would only spend seven years in prison. I'm Kathleen Gholtar, and this week on Crime Story, the soared tale of Canada's deadliest assassin. Find Crime Story wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, it's the world this hour.

I'm Joe Cummings. South African President Cyril Remiposa is meeting today with Donald Trump at the White House. And it's a visit that comes as the U.S. President is accusing the South African government of committing genocide against the country's white minority farmers. Richard Madden reports. These are mostly descendants of Dutch settlers who arrived there back in the 1600s. Now, Trump says they're being slaughtered and forced off their land under a

controversial expropriation law signed by South Africa's president and just last week. We see there's a genocide going on so if it's a genocide that's terrible and I happen to believe it could very well be. South Africa's out of control so we've made a home and we'll make a home for other people that are treated badly, no matter what their color. President Ramposa has repeatedly denied those claims that are being further amplified by Trump's ally and South African-born billionaire Elon Musk. The White House has since cut off all foreign aid to that country and recently flew in some 50 Afrikaners to the U.S. as refugees. And fueling tensions, South Africa's ambassador was recently booted from the U.S. for calling Trump a white supremacist. So today's meeting comes with a lot of political baggage. Richard Madden, CBC News, Washington.

Still in the U.S., the Justice Department is moving to cancel a settlement with the city of Minneapolis to overall its police department in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. In the final days of the Biden administration, the city agreed to address its training and use of force policies. But today's ruling says the measures are, quote, not in the public interest and adds that the United States will no longer persecute this matter. George Floyd was killed five years ago by a Minneapolis police officer. His death sparked protest against police brutality right around the world.

Senior economic officials with the world's richest economies are meeting behind closed doors today in Banff, Alberta. This is the annual G7 Finance Minister's Summit. While you'd think the Trump administration's tariff campaign would dominate the talks, they aren't even on the agenda. But Canada's Francois-Philippe Champagne, who is serving as host, insists there are other issues to discuss with the American representatives on hand. We're delighted that Secretary Besson is with us in Banff. We're delighted that we have the chairman of the Federal Reserve, which are with us. We're going to continue to engage in a very constructive discussion.

There's big things that we need to do together. The Global Finance meeting is being held in advance of next month's G7 Leaders Summit in nearby Ganonaskis. This year's World Pride Festival is underway in Washington, DC. It's an event that traditionally draws thousands of people from right around the world. But considering the current political climate

in the United States, it looks like attendance will be down this year. Lisa Shing has more. Rye Schisler will only be swimming the backstroke on this side of the border. The transgender athlete and their team, the Toronto Purple Finns, decided to skip the World Pride celebrations

in Washington, D.C. If we run into trouble somewhere in between the border and the pool, are my rights going to be respected? The global festivities hosted by a different city every other year features cultural events and sporting competitions. The Purple Finns and at least two other groups that aren't going are worried, as Donald Trump is trying to roll back policies combating discrimination against gay and transgender people.

We understand why athletes aren't coming. Rosalind McCree, an organizer of the Aquatics Championships, says turnout will likely be lower but she isn't dissuaded. The athletes who do come and the athletes who are in the United States are going to show up and speak up. World Pride runs through June 8th and will feature concerts by J.Lo and Shakira capped off with a parade. Lisa Shing, CBC News, Toronto. It appears more than 40,000 Bell Canada customers are reporting an outage today.

The reports are coming primarily from central and Atlantic Canada, but in a social media post Bell is saying some of its customers in Ontario and Quebec may be experiencing an internet service interruption. It adds that it's working to restore service as quickly as possible. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.