The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/23 at 00:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 23, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/23 at 00:00 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 Claude Fague. Last minute talks between Canada Post and its union have broken down without a deal, but the union has decided it won't go on a general strike, at least not yet. Instead, it's nearly 55,000 workers have been instructed to refuse overtime. The CBC's Nisha Patel has the latest. It looks like there is a strike action, but it's quite different than the nationwide disruption we saw late last year. The union has called for an overtime ban, effected 12 o'clock local time. So postal workers will refuse to work any more than eight hours in a day and will refuse

to work more than 40 hours in a week. Now, the union says it decided to proceed with an overtime ban to minimize disruptions to the public and avoid lost days for employees, but also warned that additional actions could still take place in the future if Canada Post changes anything to do with working conditions, benefits, or if it starts layoffs. So this action means workers will have to return to the depot and drop their mail off after eight hours of work, regardless of whether they have completed their routes.

The union adds that employees can't be disciplined for doing so. The CBC's Nisha Patel reporting. Canada's auto sector is taking another hit from U.S. tariff uncertainty. Stellantis paused production of one of its vehicles but says no jobs will be lost. Thomas Dagla reports on the latest bump in the road for Canada's fledgling electric car circuit. Every day we come in, it's just we go from there. That's all that's all. It's the latest in a series of abrupt changes at the assembly plant, leaving workers like Paul Lachance with their heads spinning.

Our work schedule has changed three times in the last, say, week or so. Stellantis is still set to assemble other Dodge Charger models in Windsor, even as U.S. President Donald Trump piles on pressure for car companies to build more vehicles stateside. Plus... I think this is a reflection of the general slowdown in EV sales. Peter Fries at the University of Windsor points to that other major challenge. The companies will pause EV investments until sales return to a sustainable level. In particular, industry experts say the electric Dodge Charger model that's now on hold may

not have been selling as well as the company had hoped. Its starting price listed just under $58,000. Thomas Daigle, CBC News, Toronto. G7 finance ministers have wrapped up their summit in Banff. They agreed on several global economic challenges, but tariffs were not among them. Carina Roman reports. We found common grounds. Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says that's a win.

The final joint statement talks about combating financial crime, the reconstruction of Ukraine, and possible further sanctions on Russia. But a word that is not mentioned once? Tariffs. Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem. Obviously tariffs are on all of our minds. We clearly have more work to do. We are committed to continuing to reduce that uncertainty and that includes around trade

and tariffs. Minister Champagne didn't give any details about his one-on-one meeting with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant. Because Canada is the biggest customer in the United States, so it's quite normal when you meet your biggest customer that there's a lot to discuss. This week lay the groundwork for the G7 Leaders Summit in June. A high stakes gathering even more so now that President Trump confirmed he will attend. Carina Roman, CBC News, Banff, Alberta. A day after being named the NBA's most valuable player, Shay Gilildes Alexander went out and showed why. The Hamilton, Ontario native put on a show tonight scoring a game high 38 points as the Oklahoma

City Thunder beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 118-103 to grab a 2-0 series lead in the Western Conference Finals. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.