The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/21 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/21 at 16:00 EDT

Other People's Problems was the first podcast to take you inside real-life therapy sessions. I'm Dr. Hilary McBride, and again, we're doing something new. The ketamine really broke down a lot of my barriers. This work has this sort of immediate transformational effect. Therapy Using Psychedelics is the new frontier in mental health. Come along for the trip. Other People's Problems Season 5, available now. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julie-Ann Hazelwood. Canada Post has presented its latest contract proposal to the union representing some 55,000 workers. The offer comes ahead of a potential strike on Friday. The union suggested a two-week

pause on any job action but the mail carrier rejected it. Marina von Stackelberg has the latest. Canada Post employees could be off the job Friday. The union says it offered to pause its strike for two weeks to look over this newest proposal. But under the Labour Code, both sides have to agree. Canada Post won't. The corporation says after two years of negotiations, a resolution is urgently needed. Jim Gallant is one of the union's negotiators. Why didn't they give it to us last week?

They say they have an offer for us and they put it right up against the deadline. Canada Post's latest offer includes a wage increase of nearly 14% over four years. The two sides are at odds, with Canada Post's desire to hire more part-time staff to deliver on weekends. John Hamilton speaks for the corporation. Do we continue to try and preserve the status quo, or do we just say it's 2025, the delivery world has changed? The federal government recently

bailed the company out with a one billion dollar loan. Marina von Stackelberg, CBC News, Ottawa. The ministers in charge of the world's seven advanced economies are meeting in the Alberta Rockies. The G7 finance ministers gathering spans two days and it has a packed agenda. Karina Roman has more from Banff. Very nice to meet you. Congratulations. Canada's Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne and Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem welcome their US counterparts Scott Besant and Jerome Powell. While there are seven countries at

the G7 table, everyone here is keenly aware that the one with the most impact on the success of this week's summit is the United States, with its ever-changing tariff and trade actions continually upending global economic stability. Today's agenda is long, including economic resilience, responsible growth, Ukraine reconstruction and financial crime. Champagne says the overall goal for the G7 finance ministers is to bring back financial stability, but how that will be achieved when the biggest player at the table is the reason for all the uncertainty remains unclear. Karina Roman, CBC News, Banff, Alberta.

US President Donald Trump confronted South African President Cyrille Ramaphosa during their meeting at the White House. Trump repeated baseless claims of genocide against the country's white farmers. But you do allow them to take land. No, no, no, no. You do allow them to take land. Nobody can take the land. When they take the land, they kill the white farmer. And when they kill the white

farmer, nothing happens to them. No. A video purporting to prove the claim was played at the meeting. Ramaphosa pushed back against the claims, acknowledging that there is criminality in South Africa, but he says the majority of violent crime victims are black. The U.S US Department of Justice is scrapping police reform in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Louisville, Kentucky. It's also dismissing lawsuits against the city's police forces that accused them of unconstitutional police practices and it's ending investigations or

retracting findings into police violations in six other cities. The announcement comes five years after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer. His death sparked protests against racism and police brutality right around the world. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel has likely killed the leader of Hamas. We have arrested many murderers, deaf, deaf, deaf- Gaza hospital earlier this month targeted Mohammed Sinwar.

After the attack, neither Israel nor Hamas had confirmed his death. Last October, the Israeli military killed his brother and the militant group's previous leader, Yahaya Sinwar. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.