The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/23 at 18:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 23, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/23 at 18:00 EDT

Are Swifties the best music fans? Should kids be on social media? Is the customer really always right? You know there are two sides to every debatable question and we're here to make you laugh while you listen to Canada's top comedians taking on these topics and many more. I'm Steve Patterson, host of The Debaters, and I'm here to make sure our debates don't end in tears or bloodshed or hockey type fights with sweaters over each other's heads. No guarantees though. Find and follow the debaters podcast and never miss an episode. From CBC News the world this hour I'm Julianne Hazelwood. We begin in

Newfoundland in Labrador. A 12-day judicial recount has resulted in a riding flip. The Conservatives are picking up a seat initially believed to have been won by a Liberal candidate. Heather Gillis has the details. Conservative Jonathan Rowe has won the riding of Terranova the Peninsula's after a lengthy judicial recount. Rowe won the recount by 12 votes. After election night, liberal Anthony Dramaine won by 12 votes, and it was a margin so small that it triggered an automatic recount. The recount started nearly two weeks ago in Marystown. It took elections workers and scrutineers nearly two days to sift through the bulk of the 41,000 ballots. But an unprecedented number

of ballots, 1,041 of them, were disputed. Judge Garrett Handrigan had to go through every single one of the ballots and make a decision. Rose win means the Conservatives have made inroads in Newfoundland and Labrador and have increased their share of seats in this province from one before the election to three. Heather Gillis, CBC News, St. John's. The federal public service has shrunk for the first time in a decade. Nearly 10,000 jobs were shed over the past year, more than half of them at the Canada Revenue Agency. The numbers come from the Treasury Board Secretariat. In November,

the Treasury Board told public service unions it was aiming to save 15 billion dollars over four years. Donald Trump says the US is on track to hike tariffs on the European Union as of June 1. It's time that we play the game the way I know how to play the game. The US president is threatening to tax EU imports at 50% to reflect his growing frustration with trade negotiations.

When asked if the EU could do anything to avoid the levy, Trump had this to say. There is no tariff if they build their plant here. Now if somebody comes in and wants to build a plant here, I can talk to them about a little bit of a delay. European officials say Trump's trade policy would significantly disrupt both economies, adding that it won't deter them from negotiating for Europe's interests. Trump is also threatening to tax Apple iPhones if they aren't manufactured in the US. He says those tariffs could apply to other smartphone companies as well. A US judge is temporarily blocking Donald Trump's attempt to keep foreign students out of Harvard. It would have forced up to a

quarter of the student body out of the university. Alexander Silberman reports. I am not sure how it's gonna work when I try to re-enter the United States. Marco Avenia says the end of his studies at Harvard University is now up in the air after US Homeland Security revoked the school's ability to enroll international students. Avenia, a Canadian PhD student from Montreal, says he's finished his in-person coursework but could miss out on opportunities to present his research due to the ban. For people who are at an earlier stage than I am, those people would be in quite a bit of trouble right now.

Harvard University sued the government and asked for a restraining order. The action from Homeland Security marks the latest escalation in a battle between the government and Harvard. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has accused the school of fostering anti-Semitism. Harvard calls the government's move unlawful and is pledging to continue supporting foreign students. Alexander Silberman, CBC News, Regina. Russia and Ukraine have each released nearly 400 prisoners in what's expected to be the largest POW swap of the year. For more on this, visit our website at cbsnews.org. Ukraine's president says the swap is the only significant result of the first direct face-to-face negotiations held in years. Vladimir Zelensky accuses Russia of stalling all other efforts to reach a ceasefire.

He calls Russia's delay tactics a mockery of the entire world. Moscow's conditions for a ceasefire include Ukraine ceding territory to Russia and a ban on Kiev striking military alliances with the West. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.