The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/25 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 25, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/25 at 16:00 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 Chileanne Hazel Wood. The Liberal and Conservative parties are plotting strategy for the next session of Parliament that begins tomorrow.

Even though Pierre Pauliev is a leader without a seat and Mark Carney is a prime minister without a majority, both struck a bullish tone. Rafa Boujikhanian has the details. This was his first occasion to speak to his caucus since the election. So perhaps unsurprisingly, he wanted to get back to those results and point out how well the liberals did, falling just short of a majority. Have a listen.

169 member caucus that is the conscience of this party. You know the scale of responsibility that we have been given and it is enormous. Pierre Poliev pointing out that he really wants to make sure the liberals pass a budget sooner rather than later. We need a budget to cut bureaucracy, consultants, foreign aid and corporate welfare to generate the savings for lower debt, taxes and inflation. There is not really a mechanism that allows the political opposition to do that and Carney has been pretty clear that the budget will

happen in the fall. The CBC's Raffaele Bouchicanean reporting from Ottawa. George Floyd was murdered five years ago today. The black man died after a white Minneapolis police officer held his knee on Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes. Floyd's death prompted protests around the world demanding racial equality and police reform. Cornell Brooks is a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School specializing in leadership

and social justice. Cornell Brooks, Harvard Kennedy School Professor, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Kennedy School Five years ago, you had more than 50 percent of Americans saying that they thought that those protests then would lead to change. Five years later, 70-plus percent are pessimistic about the possibilities of change. So what that means is, change does not happen. We have to be more determined to bring it about in order to be the country we claim to be. Anniversary tributes are taking place throughout the day for George Floyd.

Russia and Ukraine have completed the exchange of 1,000 prisoners each, in the largest swap since the war began three years ago. At the same time, Russia launched its largest air action of the conflict. Dominik Velaitis reports. A first taste of freedom for the 303 Ukrainians who were released Sunday, some already keen to return to the frontline. We will return anyway and we will enlist again, he says. We will take weapons into our hands and defend Mother Ukraine once again.

The same number of Russians were released by Ukraine in what was the final day of the largest prison swap of the war so far. Over the last three days, 1,000 soldiers and civilians from each side were exchanged. The violence, though, continued throughout and Russia has intensified its strikes on Ukraine. At least 14 people were killed and dozens more wounded overnight after Moscow launched its biggest ever drone and missile attack on the country. Dominic Velaitis for CBC News, Riga, Latvia. Pope Leo delivered his first address from the window of the papal apartments in Vatican City. Dear brothers and sisters, have a good Sunday!

The pontiff prayed for peace and courage for people suffering from war around the world and thanked the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square for their affection. The last time Sunday prayers were delivered from the iconic window overlooking St. Peter's Square, it was Pope Francis leading them. 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 their education. 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.