The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/21 at 15:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/21 at 15:00 EDT

This election campaign was supposed to be a sure thing for Pierre Poliev and the federal conservatives. But Mark Carney's leadership jolted the liberals back to life and to a fourth straight election win. Now the rookie prime minister has to manage a minority parliament and Donald Trump. I'm David Cochran and every weekday on Power and Politics we bring you the day's top political stories. I speak to the people who wield the power and those who seek power. Follow Power and Politics wherever you get your podcasts, including YouTube. From CBC News, the world this hour,

I'm Julianne Hazelwood. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers says it has offered Canada Post a two-week truce after receiving new offers ahead of a looming strike. Postal Workers are set has offered Canada Post a two-week truce after receiving new offers ahead of a looming strike. Postal workers are set to walk off the job on Friday, but a truce would delay job action. Canada Post has not yet accepted the union's offer. As for Canada's post proposal to workers, it includes wage increases and benefit protections, which the union says it will review. It also suggests creating part-time positions for weekend deliveries, something the union has not supported.

To London, Ontario now and the sexual assault trial involving five former World Junior hockey players, the Crown attorney is trying to convince the judge to let her cross-examine her own witness about inconsistencies in his testimony. Karen Pauls explains. Today's legal arguments revolve around whether the Crown's witness, Vegas Golden Knights forward Brett Howden, is deliberately pretending not to remember details that would hurt his former World Junior teammates or if his memory loss is legitimate and sincere. Howden has been unable to recall details that he has provided in previous statements to

investigators and that the Crown wants on the record. The defense lawyers are been unable to recall details that he has provided in previous statements to investigators and that the Crown wants on the record. The defense lawyers are asking the judge to reject the Crown's application and are presenting case law to bolster their positions. One of them described Howden as unsophisticated, inarticulate, a poor communicator and careless with his words. The judge will have to make a ruling on this application before Howden resumes testifying by video link from Las Vegas. Karen Pauls, CBC News, London, Ontario.

To Washington now and another ambush from US President Donald Trump, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was at the White House hoping to improve deteriorating relations between the two countries. Instead Trump repeated his baseless accusations that the South African government was condoning genocide against the country's white farmers. You're taking people's land away from them. And those people in many cases are being executed. They're being executed.

And they happen to be white, and most of them happen to be farmers. And that's a tough situation. I don't know how you explain that." A video purporting to prove the claim was also played during the meeting. Ramaphosa repeatedly denied the genocide. He says most victims of violent crime are black South Africans. Humanitarian groups insist they don't have access to the nearly 100 aid trucks that made it into Gaza. Israel says the vehicles containing baby food and medicine are now on the Palestinian side of the crossing. But the Israeli military has not commented on the reported delays in aid distribution. Crystal Guamansingh has the latest.

We are in a famine, yells Jihad Hader. In a soup kitchen in Han Yunis, Only Haader's anger is being fueled. As you can see, all of their pots are empty, all of them. Israel allowed aid trucks to enter as of Monday, but humanitarian groups say the Israeli military hasn't granted them access to the holding areas. Antoine Renard is with the World Food Program. None of these aid, that is very limited number of trucks, have reached the Gaza population.

The Pope appealed to Israel Wednesday. The situation in the Gaza Strip, he said, is increasingly worrying and painful. He called for the end of hostilities saying children, the elderly and the sick are paying the highest price. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, London. Italy, Turkey and other European countries are condemning the Israeli military for firing on foreign diplomats in the West Bank. Representatives of several countries were on a prearranged visit to the city of Jenin. Israel says the delegation deviated from an approved route and troops fired warning shots as a result.

The European Union calls the incident a threat on diplomats' lives and is demanding an investigation. And that is Your World This Hour. You can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts updated every hour, seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.