The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/23 at 19:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 23, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/23 at 19:00 EDT

In 1977, the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club opened up a chapter in Montreal. Their enforcer was a man named Yves Trudeau. And over the course of his criminal career, Trudeau would murder no fewer than 43 people. And he would only spend seven years in prison. I'm Kathleen Gholtar, and this week on Crime Story, the soared tale of Canada's deadliest assassin. Find Crime Story wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hasele Wood.

A judicial recount has changed the results of the election in the Newfoundland and Labrador riding of Terra Nova, the peninsulas. Elections Canada has handed the victory to conservative candidate Jonathan Rowe. He wins by just 12 votes. The recount was ordered two weeks ago after initial results gave liberal Anthony Germain the victory also by 12 votes. And another recount earlier today confirmed the conservative victory in Windsor to Cumseay Lakeshore. Kathy Borelli won the Southwestern Ontario riding by just four votes. The judge in the Hockey Canada

sexual assault trial has decided key evidence is not admissible. That evidence is a number of text messages Vegas Golden Knight forward Brett Howden sent to a teammate. Both were members of the 2018 World Junior Hockey team. Howden is not charged but is a crown witness in the 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. A U.S. judge has blocked, for now, an attempt by Donald Trump's administration to keep foreign students out of Harvard. The ruling comes hours after the university challenged the policy that was announced yesterday.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused Harvard of fostering violence, anti-Semitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party. The ban would have affected as much as a quarter of the school's student body. All six people aboard a small plane that crashed in a San Diego neighborhood yesterday are dead. Officials say the private jet was trying to land in foggy weather before striking power lines near a local airport.

They also found the airport's weather alert system and runway lights were not working before the crash. European Union officials say Donald Trump's latest trade escalation would spell serious consequences for consumers in the U.S. The president is preparing to hike tariffs on the economic bloc on June 1st. Aaron Collins is in Washington with the latest. It's time that we play the game the way I know how to play the game. Donald Trump talking tough in the Oval Office.

His latest target, the European Union. The U.S. president lashing out on social media, threatening a 50% tariff, upset about a trade deficit with the EU. They haven't treated us properly. They haven't treated our country properly. A reaction from Europe came swiftly, but with some skepticism. Gunter Wolff is a policy analyst based in Brussels. He says Trump doesn't always follow through on his tariff threats.

We know that he's very volatile and we know also that he's blinking once he sees the consequences. Donald Trump also put pressure on one of the world's largest companies, the president threatening to slap a 25% tariff on Apple products produced outside the US, saying the levy could also apply to other smartphone companies as well. Erin Collins, CBC News, Washington. Eight of the people accused of robbing Kim Kardashian have been found guilty by a Paris court, but none of them will serve time in prison. The verdict comes nearly a decade after the celebrity was robbed at gunpoint in her Paris hotel room.

The robbers got away with more than $6 million worth of jewelry. Sentences ranged from prison terms to fines, but all will walk free because of time already served. The game became known as the Grandpa Robbers in France. The chief judge says old age played a factor in the court's decision not to impose harsher sentences. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.