The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/25 at 14:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 25, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/25 at 14:00 EDT

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why the internet sucks now, whose fault it is, and my plan to fix it. Find who broke the internet on whatever terrible app you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. On Parliament Hill, parties are holding caucus meetings today, ahead of MPs returning to the House of Commons tomorrow. Conservative leader Pierre Pollyet congratulated the party's newest member of parliament. Jonathan Rowe was declared the winner Friday in the Newfoundland riding of Terra Nova, the peninsulas, after a judicial recount.

News of the recount in Newfoundland points to the fact that we've expanded our coalition to include union workers, young people, newcomers and others who had never voted before. They voted for hope, for a change. And while we narrowly missed forming government, we now have every duty to fulfill that hope and fight for that change. Poliev won't become opposition leader until he wins a seat in the Commons. For now, Andrew Scheer leads the Tories in the House. The Liberals are also meeting today. Rafi Boujikanean tells us what's on their agenda. This is their first caucus meeting since the House. The Liberals are also meeting today. Rafi Boujikaneen tells us what's on

their agenda. This is their first caucus meeting since the election. And one thing we know they'll be doing is voting on the Reform Act. That's a piece of legislation that decides whether or not the members of a given party want to give themselves the power to essentially boot their leader out after dissatisfaction with them following an election campaign. The liberals have typically voted against passing this reform act in the past. Some now feel like they will vote to pass it. The idea, those who want to vote for it, say is not about passing judgment on

Mark Carney, the new Prime Minister, who of course brought them back from really the brink of electoral oblivion once he took the reins of that party. But it's more about giving themselves power to be able to do this in the future because they don't want to see a repetition of what happened in the last year when Prime Minister Trudeau, the former prime minister, was becoming quite unpopular. The CBC's Rafi Boudjikani in reporting from Ottawa. The team in charge of preparing for tomorrow's royal visit says the process has been challenging. Senior Privy Council officer Jules Chagard says the biggest obstacle is time.

Usually his team would get months to plan. Instead, they had weeks. But Chagard says no one is complaining. Everyone's absolutely excited. This is very different from what we normally do. And it's a great opportunity and exciting. For me, the best part of royal visits is seeing the people who are participating. That's really the fun for us after weeks or months of planning. To have it come together and to have people sharing the excitement is an absolutely great experience. King Charles and Queen Camilla will arrive tomorrow for a two-day visit.

Sraud says the last big test will be the weather. A vigil will be held tonight in Walkerton, Ontario to remember four teenagers and their teacher. They were killed in a crash near London on Friday while traveling home from a softball tournament. The teenagers were all young women, either 16 or 17 years old. They attended Walkerton District Community School. Chris Peabody is the mayor of Brockton, a municipality that includes Walkerton. He says the town is in shock. The community is rallying for ways to support the families

and the school. There will be a candlelight vigil tonight as well as people are encouraged to put, as they were athletes, to put shoes out, running shoes out on the porch or baseball bat. The SUV the victims were in collided with a transport truck. Police have not laid charges and say they're still investigating. To Gaza now. Palestinians in Kanyunas hold a funeral for people killed in an Israeli airstrike. At least 23 people were killed in separate Israeli strikes in the north, south and central Gaza. Palestinian authorities say a local journalist and a senior

rescue service official are among the dead. Donald Trump has fired his latest salvo in the war with Harvard University. On social media, he demanded the names and countries of foreign students and claimed those countries don't pay anything for the education of their citizens. Last week, Trump's administration moved to keep foreign students out of Harvard. But that action was blocked by a temporary injunction.

And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.