The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/25 at 21:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 26, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/25 at 21:00 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 is sour. I'm Neal Kumar. After a six-month break from parliamentary business, MPs are returning to Ottawa for the first sitting of the year. In preparation, the conservatives and liberals both held caucus meetings. Olivia Stavanovic reports. I don't have to ask whether this room is ready. I know this room is ready. Prime Minister Mark Carney rallying the Liberal caucus. Carney says he plans to introduce several key pieces of legislation, the details to be laid out this Tuesday in the throne speech delivered by King Charles.

The Liberals arranged this Sunday caucus meeting at the request of MPs who called for a vote on the Reform Act, a piece of legislation that gives caucus the ability to trigger a leadership review. I do believe in caucus accountability. Ryan Turnbull is one of the Liberal MPs who voiced support for the act, but the majority of his caucus members voted against it. The opposition also holding a caucus meeting of their own Sunday. Although he doesn't currently hold a seat in the House of Commons,

Pierre Poliev remains party leader. We will present ourselves as a government in waiting. The new minority parliament gets to work Monday. Olivia Estefanovic, CBC News, Ottawa. Canada Post says it's reviewing the union's response to its latest contract offer. The Crown Corporation and union met for mediation talks today. The union says talks are expected to resume over the next few days. This was the third day of job action.

Workers are in a legal strike position but chose to stay on the job although they are not working overtime so there may be some disruptions to mail delivery. A central Ontario community is holding a vigil this hour to mourn the loss of four high school students and a popular teacher. They were killed in a car crash on Friday. Phillip Lee Shanuck reports. Keegan Padfield looks at a growing memorial of flowers and teddy bears outside the front doors of Walkerton District Community School. Like many in the town he left shoes out on his porch as a tribute to the student athletes and a well-liked coach. He likes

to make a lot of jokes and he's always really nice with the students. 33 year old teacher Matt Eckert was driving an SUV with four members of the school softball team when they were involved in an accident with a tractor trailer and another SUV. All five occupants of the SUV died. They were on their way home to Walkerton from a school softball tournament. Two of the girls were were 16 two were 17. I think everyone would have gotten along with those girls. Padfield a 15 year old in the 10th grade said it would be a difficult week for the school and

community. Phil Pyshawak CBC News Toronto. George Floyd was murdered five years ago today the black man died after 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.

Five years ago, you had more than 50% 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 took place on Sunday for George Floyd.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he is not ruling out putting sanctions on Russia, saying he's not happy with Vladimir Putin after Russia launched its largest air assault on Ukraine since the start of its invasion. I don't know what the hell happened to Putin. I've known him a long time, always gotten along with him, but he's sending rockets into cities and killing people and I don't like it at all. Ukrainian authorities say more than 30 cities and towns across the country were targeted,

including Kiev. The air assault comes as Ukraine and Russia exchanged 1,000 prisoners over the weekend. And that is your World is Sour. For CBC News, I'm Neal Kumar.