The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/22 at 18:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 22, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/22 at 18:00 EDT

We get it. Choosing a news podcast is hard. Some cover a lot of headlines. Others are a deep dive on just one story. Here at Your World Tonight, we're the best of both worlds, covering the biggest stories of the day, but with enough time for you to actually understand them. The full picture in under half an hour. I'm Susan Bonner, host of Your World Tonight. Find us wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. We begin in Washington. This is a horrific crime and these crimes are not going to be tolerated by me and by this office.

The man accused of killing two Israeli embassy staffers now faces multiple federal charges including first-degree murder. Yaron Lashinsky and Sarah Milgram were fatally shot outside the Capitol Jewish Museum last night. Shanine Farris-Pierro is interim US Attorney with the Justice Department. She says anti-semitism will not be tolerated. We're going to continue to investigate this as a hate crime and a crime of terrorism. And we will add additional charges as the evidence warrants. Police say 31-year-old Elias Rodriguez from Chicago chanted free Palestine after he was arrested.

The FBI says it's investigating the alleged shooter's internet activity, specifically a document that's circulating online. Prime Minister Mark Carney says he's devastated and appalled by the shootings. He's condemning what he calls a targeted attack against the Jewish community, adding his government will fight increasing hate crimes. The United Nations says about 90 truckloads of aid were delivered across Gaza today. The shipments include baby food, flour, and medical supplies. Israel has resisted easing its 11-week blockade further over concerns

Hamas would steal the aid. UN spokesperson Stefan Dujaric says a small number of those trucks have been intercepted, not by militants, but by residents. As far as I know, this was not a criminal act with armed men. It was what I'd been referring sometimes as self-distribution, which I think only reflects the very high level of anxiety that people in Gaza are feeling, not knowing when the next humanitarian delivery will take place. DuJarique once again stressed the aid currently flowing in is not sufficient to meet the needs of more than two million people facing the threat of famine.

The Trump administration has blocked Harvard University from enrolling foreign students. And Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem says she is not ruling out similar action at other schools. The administration had accused America's oldest university of anti-Semitism. Harvard calls the move unlawful and says it will affect thousands of its students. With no deal between Canada Post and its workers and no new talk scheduled, we're less than six hours away now from a potential postal strike. Nisha Patel reports. The union representing about 55,000 Canada Post workers says it's reviewing the latest proposal from the Postal Service and is working on counteroffers.

The union is looking for a 19 percent pay bump over four years to catch up after years of steep inflation. Canada Post has offered more than 13 percent. It also wants to hire more part-time staff. They do see it as a slippery slope to a much smaller Canada Post and a much smaller union as a consequence. Business professor Ian Lee says the Crown Corporation has to make some changes. It's under serious financial strain and has lost at least $3 billion since 2018. Every parcel post that they deliver, every parcel, every courier, every letter they deliver is at a loss. So they're out of runway.

Without an agreement, postal workers are set to return to the picket line at midnight Eastern. Nisha Patel, CBC News, Toronto. Finance ministers from the G7 countries have wrapped up meetings in Banff. Canada's Francois-Philippe Champagne says all agreed to cooperate on several issues. I can think about supply chain resiliency. I can think about tackling financial crime. I can think also about the menu of growth and enhancing policies that we have put on the table that we have discussed with international organizations. So we have achieved, I would

say when I look at where we are to where we are today and the journey ahead of us, we're on a good track. Ukraine's finance minister was also at the summit in action against Russia on the agenda. Champagne says blocking countries who aided Russia's war effort from taking part in Ukraine's reconstruction was an important G7 achievement. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.