The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/23 at 22:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/23 at 22:00 EDT

In this acclaimed new production of Anna Karenina, the National Ballet of Canada asks, what is fair in love and society? Renowned choreographer Christian Spook adapts Tolstoy's epic novel to dance in a spectacular work complete with lush costumes, cinematic projections, and a glorious curated score, featuring the music of Rachmaninoff. On stage June 13th to 21st, tickets on sale now at national.ballet.ca sponsored by IG private wealth management. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Claude Fague. In Newfoundland and 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 Dermaine 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 Hendrigan had to go through every single one of the ballots and make a decision. Rose wind 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.

Meanwhile, the Conservatives are holding on to a southwestern Ontario riding. After a judicial recount there, Cathy Borelli won in Windsor-Tacumseh Lakeshore by just four votes, and that margin narrowed significantly from the 233 initially reported and the 77 that Elections Canada had certified. The riding had been held by the Liberals before last month's election. Russia launched a large-scale assault in Ukraine overnight and into early morning. Reports suggest it was a combination of drones and missiles fired towards the capital city of Kiev. The latest Russian attacks come following a rare moment of cooperation.

Russia and Ukraine each swap 390 prisoners. Both countries say they'll free more in the coming days. And once the exchange is complete, Russia is promising to deliver a draft document outlining its conditions for peace. Philip Lee Shannick reports. It's a first stage. We didn't yet achieve the ceasefire. Ukraine wants the ceasefire.

Ukraine's defense minister, Rustam Umarov, says he hopes this prisoner swap, expected to be a thousand people from each side, will lead to the next steps in the peace process. Firstly is exchanges, second is a ceasefire and third step is a leaders meeting. Umarov says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was willing to meet in Istanbul, as suggested by Russian President Vladimir Putin, for face-to-face talks. But Putin didn't show up, instead sending lower-level diplomats. Zelensky says he's happy the prisoner exchange is underway, which he calls the only significant result of the meeting in Turkey. And he says Russia's proposal for draft conditions

for negotiating a ceasefire is a mockery. Philip LeChenok, CBC News, Toronto. A sold out business crowd in Calgary welcomed Canada's new Energy Minister today and what they got from Tim Hodgson was enthusiastic support for Alberta's oil and gas industry. As Kyle Bax tells us, the new Liberal government is trying to move quickly to reset Ottawa's image in the oil patch. The Canadian energy industry is the best in the world. We will treat it that way. Hodgson is a former investment banker, familiar with the oil patch as a financial player and

as a former board member of Meg Energy, an oil sands producer. Canada will remain a reliable global supplier, not just today, but for decades to come. Hodgson didn't make any new announcements, but vowed to take action to ensure the industry grows. That includes pipelines and increasing energy exports. Suncor CEO Rich Krueger praised Hodgson and the liberal election promises. Your boss, Prime Minister Carney, said that the new government wants to build baby build. That is music to Alberta's ears. Even the Alberta government, routinely critical of the federal Liberals, is welcoming the

new message. So far, a rosy response in Alberta to his first foray west as Energy Minister. Kyle Backs, CBC News, Calgary. a rosy response in Alberta to his first foray west as energy minister. Kyle Backs, CBC News, Calgary. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fay.