The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/23 at 08:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 23, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/23 at 08:00 EDT

How did the internet go from this? You could actually find what you were looking for right away, bound to this. I feel like I'm in hell. Spoiler alert, it was not an accident. I'm Cory Doctorow, host of Who Broke the Internet from CBC's Understood. In this four-part series, I'm going to tell you

why the internet sucks now, whose fault it is, and my plan to fix it. Find Who Broke the Internet on whatever terrible app you get your podcasts. Joe Cummings At from CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. At least for now, the threat of a postal strike here in Canada 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. Now to the federal election and a riding in Newfoundland and Labrador. Three weeks after Election Day and a winner has yet to be declared. But after a painfully slow recount, we are now finally expecting an announcement.

Heather Gillis reports. It's been 12 days since the automatic judicial recount started in Terra Nova, the peninsula's, and the outcome is finally expected later today. On election night, Liberal candidate Anthony Dramaine 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, too shy of a majority government. But if it flips blue, that will bump up the Conservatives to 144 seats. Heather Gillis, CBC News, St. John's. The Trump administration is escalating its feud with Harvard University. It's telling the Ivy League school that it can no longer enroll international students. Richard Madden has the details.

The White House says it's enforcing laws to root out anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism on campus and in society. So it's now blocked Harvard University's authorization to enroll international students. And this affects roughly 6,700 of them, or more than a quarter of Harvard's enrollment. Homeland Security Secretary Christine Noem says Harvard refused to turn over conduct records of foreign students she requested last month.

She's also accusing the university for failing to create a safe environment, especially for its Jewish students and for stoking anti-American views on campus. Here she is on Fox News. Harvard has a history of allowing not just protests, but violent protests where students were assaulted. They were discriminated against.

Last month, the White House cut $2 billion in research grants and is now threatening to eliminate its tax-free status. Harvard calls this move unlawful and plans to sue. Richard Madden, CBC News, Washington. Meanwhile, President Trump was hosting a gala dinner last night for the biggest investors in his cryptocurrency. Mr. President, are people buying influence with you? Reporters call out to the president as he arrives aboard the Marine One helicopter.

The dinner was held at his golf course outside Washington, D.C. Trump launched the cryptocurrency shortly before his inauguration in January. Critics says it allows people to buy access to the White House. And it's believed foreign investors were at the dinner. That has led to concerns of a potential national security threat with the Democrats demanding that Trump release the names on the invitation list. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.