The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/21 at 20:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 22, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/21 at 20:00 EDT

In this acclaimed new production of Anna Karenina, the National Ballet of Canada asks, what is fair in love and society? Renowned choreographer, Christian Spook adapts Tolstoy's epic novel to dance in a spectacular work complete with lush costumes, cinematic projections, and a glorious curated score, featuring the music of Rachmaninoff. On stage June 13th to 21st, tickets on sale now at national.ballet.ca.

Sponsored by IG Private Wealth Management. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. Prime Minister Mark Carney has issued a mandate letter to his cabinet after a two-day retreat. Top of the priority list, establishing a new economic and security relationship with the U.S. As Olivia Stefanovic reports, the focus is also on strengthening ties with other trading partners. We are demonstrating our ability that we have choices. Prime Minister Mark Carney says the days of Canada steadily deepening economic relations with the U.S. are over. We are in a position now where we cooperate when necessary,

but not necessarily cooperate. Carney says he's pursuing cooperation with other allies, including Europeans. But when it comes to the U.S., Carney says his government will cooperate on ballistic missile defence. Canada is in high levellevel talks about joining the Golden Dome Defense Shield, a project estimated to cost at least $175 billion

US, with US President Donald Trump insisting Canada will pay its fair share, though Carney isn't yet putting a price tag on how much his government would be willing to contribute. Olivia Stefanovic, CBC News, Ottawa. Canada Post has presented its latest contract proposal to the union representing postal workers. The offer comes ahead of a potential strike on Friday. The union suggested a two-week pause in 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. US President Donald Trump confronted South African President Cyril 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. And then when they take the land, they kill the white farmer. And when they kill the white farmer, nothing happens to them. No. A video reporting 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.

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 accuse 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. An Israeli airstrike on a 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 militants group's previous leader, Yahya Sinwar. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.