The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/22 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 22, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/22 at 12:00 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, it's the world is our. I'm Joe Cummings. First to the auto sector and an announcement today from Stellantis.

It says it is putting the production of its Canadian-made Charger Daytona on hold for the 2026 model year. The company says it needs time to assess the effects of U.S. tariffs. But industry minister Melanie Zhou Li says she's been assured no jobs will be affected. I spoke to the CEO of Stellantis this morning. He assured me that all jobs at Stellantis in Canada would be protected and all conditions of workers would remain the same. The electric muscle car is made at the Stellantis assembly plant in Windsor, Ontario.

There have been a number of shutdowns at that plant since the start of the trade war earlier this year. An exact number isn't known, but there are multiple fatalities after a small plane crashed today in a San Diego neighborhood. Jet fuel going down the street and everything on fire all at once. It was pretty horrific to see. The San Diego chief of police Scott Wall, no one on the ground was injured, but about 10 homes and a number of vehicles caught fire, prompting evacuation orders.

The plane came down just before 4 a.m. local time. Investigators haven't released any details about the aircraft, but say it has the capacity to hold up to 10 people. Still in the U.S., President Donald Trump's sweeping tax and spending bill has been passed by the House of Representatives. The yeas are 215, the nays are 214, with one answering present. The bill is passed. It's legislation that Trump is calling his big, beautiful bill.

Among other things, it calls for extensive corporate and individual tax cuts, but it cancels a number of green energy incentives and restricts eligibility for a range of health and food programs. The bill now needs to pass the Senate before it can be signed into law. It appears pressure is mounting on Conservative leader Pierre Poliev to distance himself from Jennie Byrne. Byr was the Conservatives' national campaign manager in the federal election, and it's being reported that within the party caucus, she's being blamed for the election loss. Janice McGregor has more.

Our Radio Canada colleague, Christiane Noel, spoke to 12 Conservatives, did not name them, and they were scathing, saying, after the Conservatives blew a double-digit lead in the polls to lose the election, heads have to roll. And yet there hasn't been any accountability from national campaign manager Jenny Byrne, a private contractor whose exact job now that the general election is over, is unclear, except that she's personally tight with Pierre Poliev. Radio Canada heard that she treats people like quote garbage, that her behavior at party headquarters was toxic and angry, that she didn't communicate well with

teams in the field. When caucus met two weeks ago, Polyev brushed aside questions about Burns saying conservatives won't grow by excluding people. He will face a review vote at the party's next convention. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. Canadian writer Michael Crummey has won the prestigious Dublin Literary Award. Crummey, who lives in St. John's, wins for his novel The Adversary. It's a story of sibling rivalry set in the 19th century in 19th century Newfoundland. The Dublin Prize is awarded each year by the Dublin City Council with nominations sent in from public libraries around the world.

And in his acceptance speech, Crummy spoke of his love of libraries and specifically the Buckins Public Library in his Newfoundland hometown. When I was a child, I was awed by the number of books on the shelves in that room. And it made the little world that I was born into feel something close to limitless. The Dublin Literary Award is worth $180,000 Canadian. Women's hockey, the PWHL final continues tonight in Ottawa with the charge looking to take a 2-0 lead over the Minnesota Frost. Ottawa opened the Walter Cup Best of 5 final earlier this week with a 2-1 overtime win in game one. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.