The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/25 at 11:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 25, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/25 at 11:00 EDT

Other People's Problems was the first podcast to take you inside real-life therapy sessions. I'm Dr. Hilary McBride, and again, we're doing something new. The ketamine really broke down a lot of my barriers. This work has this sort of immediate transformational effect. Therapy Using Psychedelics is the new frontier in mental health. Come along for the trip. Other People's Problems Season 5, available now. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. Ottawa is preparing for a lot of pomp and pageantry this week. King Charles will be arriving in Canada to open a new session of

parliament on Tuesday when he delivers his speech from the throne. CBC's chief political correspondent, Rosemary Barton, teased it up for us. Well, first remember, Parliament hasn't even sat in 2025. It hasn't sat in more than five months since well before the election. So the first thing that has to happen tomorrow is the election of a new speaker for the House of Commons. Then attention will turn immediately to the arrival of King Charles III tomorrow and then of course, the throne speech on Tuesday morning. It will be the King's 20th visit to Canada, but his first one as King. And

he comes at the request of the prime minister to deliver the speech from the throne, something that Queen Elizabeth II did twice most recently in 1977. And the presence of the King and the demonstration of our democracy and parliamentary system is really meant to send a message that even in the face of threats, Canada remains a sovereign nation. The speech itself, of course, is to outline the government's priorities for the months ahead. And we'll focus on some of the things that the Prime Minister outlined in his one-mandate letter to cabinet, growing the Canadian economy, bringing down costs for Canadians, building more homes, and getting a new economic and security pact with the United States.

Canada's joint declaration on Israel and Gaza is getting a nuanced response from the families of Hamas hostages. On Monday, Prime Minister Mark Carney joined the leaders of France and the UK, urging Israel to end its military campaign in Gaza and allow humanitarian aid into the territory. CBC's Tom Perry reports from Jerusalem. We know they are alive and we know time is running out. At their weekly rally in Tel Aviv, the families of Israeli hostages make their plea yet again

in front of thousands of supporters, urging an end to the war and for their loved ones to finally come home. Yehuda Cohen's son Nimrod was taken on October 7th and remains in captivity. He supports the joint declaration by Canada, France and the UK, urging Israel to step back from its assault on Gaza. Israel is not an island, it cannot survive by itself. It needs, especially connection with the Western world. Dalia Kusnir, whose brother-in-law, Itan Horn, is still in Gaza, is more critical. I think it's a misunderstanding of priorities. First release the hostages, then you can take care of Gaza. Tom Perry, CBC News, Jerusalem.

The French Riviera has been hit with a second power outage in just two days, and authorities blame both incidents on suspected sabotage of the electric grid. A major blackout interrupted the Cannes International Film Festival yesterday, and overnight, tens of thousands of homes lost power in Nice. Officials say both incidents were caused by fires at power substations, likely caused by arson. Visitors flocked to Newfoundland and Labrador at this time of year to take in the massive icebergs moving down the coast and the thousands of whales just offshore.

Now the province's tourism department is adding to that experience. Leanne Power reports. Welcome to the humpback capital of the world. Power Reports. In Newfoundland and Labrador these days, you can not only watch humpbacks, you can also get to know them. Every humpback's tail or fluke is like a human fingerprint, unique to the animal. With the Tourism Department's new app, Hello Humpback, you can take a photo of the whale you see and find out more about it.

The app uses AI to generate a story about the individual whale you've seen. The information comes from a database run by the group Happy Whale, which has been tracking humpback sightings around the world for a decade. The group uses the data to follow individual whales and keep tabs on their health and environment. Ted Cheeseman is co-founder of Happy Whale. Ted Cheeseman, Co-Founder of Happyale. It's just proving to be a very, very powerful tool. The part that ultimately is probably the most meaningful is to get people engaged in knowing their whale. So far visitors are loving the new app. Leanne Power, CBC News, Gander. And that is The World This Hour. Listen to us anytime on voice-activated devices like Google Home.

For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.