The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/23 at 10:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 23, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/23 at 10:00 EDT

Canadians have plenty of reasons to pay attention right now, but not everyone has a daily news habit. So if you're hoping to build one, we're here to make that really easy. I'm Marcia Young. I'm John Northcott and we host World Report. Give us 10 minutes every morning and we'll give you the biggest stories happening in Canada and around the globe. Whether you're tracking Trump's latest tariff threats, election season in Canada, or how the war in Ukraine is changing, we'll help you understand what's going on. You can find and follow World Report wherever you get your podcasts.

From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. The judge in the Hockey Canada Sexual Assault Trial has decided some text messages Vegas Golden Knights forward Brett Houghton sent to a teammate are not admissible as evidence. Houghton was a member of the 2018 World Junior Hockey Team. He is not charged, but is a crown witness in the sexual assault trial of five of his former teammates.

Karen Pauls has the latest. The Crown wanted to introduce the text as evidence and ask Brett Howden questions about them, but now she won't be able to, and legal experts say that will weaken her case against Dylan DuBey. In one of the texts, Howden wrote that he was happy he left the hotel room when he did because Dubay was smacking the girls behind so hard it looked like it hurt so bad. The defense argued those texts should not be entered as evidence because Howden says he can't remember writing them, can't now confirm the details are accurate, and never expected them to be used as evidence seven years later.

Howden told court he believes he was being truthful in what he texted. The complainant has testified someone slapped her on the buttocks without her consent. Other players have also testified she was spanked and at least one identified DuBey. DuBey and the other players have all pleaded not guilty to the charges against them. Karen Pauls, CBC News, London, Ontario. Canada's postal workers had planned to walk off the job this morning, but at least for the time being, that strike action is on hold, with the postal workers union instead opting for a form of work-to-rule campaign.

Following talks late last night with the Crown Corporation, the union is saying this will limit delivery disruptions and lost days for its members. Canada Post says despite there being no full work stoppage, there could still be delays in service. The results of a federal recount are in, and conservative Cathy Borelli is holding onto the Ontario riding of Windsor-Decumseh Lakeshore. Elections Canada says she defeated the liberal incumbent candidate by just four votes the recount took a full three days to complete in a

social media post overnight US President Donald Trump is threatening to put a 25 percent tariff on all Apple products unless the company agrees to start making its iPhones in the United States Scott Peterson has more he wants all the iPhones if they're sold in the US to be built in the United States. Scott Peterson has more. He wants all the iPhones, if they're sold in the U.S., to be built in the U.S. This is the worst possible case scenario as a CEO. You go to bed at night, you wake up in the morning, you find the U.S. president has posted about your company. Apple, for their part, have promised $500 billion in research and to create jobs and things, but their manufacturing is still in China. They're trying to transition to India, but they've been doing everything they could to avoid the pinpoint and the laser focus of Donald Trump, but they've been unsuccessful clearly in his post this morning. So now the

question is, is this going to punish a very successful US company that's taking advantage of lower labor costs overseas, or is this potentially going to hand over more business to a Chinese upstart that are very eager to take Apple's product and Apple's market share? And so there's a lot of worry about this and there's a lot of surprise at this tweet overnight. Scott Peterson, CBC News, Toronto. A week after agreeing to the terms, Russia and Ukraine's biggest prisoner exchange of the war is now underway. Dominic Vlaidis has the details.

It's believed some of those expected to be freed are being brought to a location in Ukraine's northern Chernihiv region. The two countries agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners from each side following two hours of talks in Turkey last week. It was the only concrete step towards peace they agreed upon during their first face-to-face meeting in three years. Earlier today, US President Donald Trump announced the prisoner swap had already been completed and even offered his congratulations to both sides on social media. But according to Russia and Ukraine, the process of exchanging hundreds

of people is still very much a work in progress. Dominic Velaitis for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. And that is the World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.