The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/23 at 06:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 23, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/23 at 06:00 EDT

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I'm Joe Cummings. At least for now, the threat of a postal strike is on hold. The country's 55,000 postal workers had planned to walk off the job as of this morning. Instead, their union is implementing a work-to-rule campaign, but with a general strike still very much a possibility down the road. Nisha Patel has the latest. The union said it made the decision to minimize disruptions to the public, while warning additional strike actions could still take place in the future. This development comes after the two sides met briefly last night at the request of the union,

but the talks broke off without making progress. The union says it's still reviewing the latest contract offer. Canada Post is offering a 13.5% pay bump over four years, while the union is looking for a 19% pay raise. The Crown Corporation also wants to hire more part-time staff so it can extend parcel delivery to the weekends. The union is concerned that will lead to an erosion of full-time jobs. Nisha Patel, CBC News, Toronto. Today marks three weeks since two young children were reported missing from their home in rural Nova Scotia.

And as part of the ongoing investigation, one area resident is saying the RCMP has asked her for hours of footage from her trail cameras. Kayla Hounsell has more. So these are the cameras that we like to use. Melissa Scott points to a small camera she's mounted to a tree. Kayla Hounsell has more. So these are the cameras that we like to use. Melissa Scott points to a small camera she's mounted to a tree. She has seven of them set up around her property,

which is more than an eight-kilometer drive from where Lily and Jack Sullivan were reported missing from their home on May 2nd. This week, Scott says two RCMP officers from the major crime unit showed up asking for footage dating back five days before the children's parents called 911. I did mention to them that I was very happy to see them and glad that they were canvassing a little further and looking at trail cam footage and they did respond saying that they probably should have been around earlier.

Police say they were told six-year-old Lily and 4-year-old Jack had wandered away from their home in Lansdowne Station, an extremely rural area about 140 kilometers northeast of Halifax. It sparked an extensive search through dense woods. The RCMP declined an interview request. Kayla Hounsell, CBC News, Pictou County, Nova Scotia. Analysts are saying home prices across the country will need to come down significantly if Canada wants housing to be affordable again.

Housing expert Mike Moffat says Ottawa's efforts to lower the cost of building are admirable, but that won't be enough to make homes affordable for the middle class. He says that if home prices hold steady where they are right now, it will take at least 18 years for wages to catch up and restore affordability across Canada to levels that were seen back in 2005. Now to Newfoundland and Labrador where finally the recount results are expected today and a riding where voters still don't know who will be representing them on Parliament Hill. The recount from the federal election got underway nearly two weeks ago, leaving the candidates waiting and waiting for an outcome. Heather Gillis reports.

Heather Gillis It's been 12 days since the automatic judicial recount started in Terra Nova, the peninsulas, and the outcome is finally expected later today. On election night, Liberal candidate Anthony Germain beat out Conservative candidate Jonathan Rowe by just 12 votes. It's a margin so tight, it triggered an automatic recount. It took election workers almost two full days to go through 41,000 ballots, leaving an unprecedented number of disputed ballots, 1,041 of them. A judge has been going through every single one of those disputed ballots since the middle of last week.

A spokesperson for the Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court says once Judge Garrett Handrigan makes a decision, he'll notify Elections Canada, which will publish the results. If the Liberals hold on, they'll have 170 seats in the House of Commons. But if it flips blue, that will bump up the Conservatives to 144 seats. Heather Gillis, CBC News, St. John's. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.