The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/26 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 26, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/26 at 12:00 EDT

Do you ever finish a true crime series and wish that you could know more? It happens to me all the time. And that's what's driving my interviews on Crime Story. Each week I'm lucky enough to sit down with the best storytellers and really dig into what it takes to tell those stories. And this month our riches run deep. We have Keith Morrison, Amanda Knox, and Bone Valley's Gilbert King. I'm Kathleen Goltar. Find Crime Story wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. We go first to the House of Commons where MPs are voting and their ballots are now being counted to determine the next Speaker.

We're just now getting the votes added up. Six candidates in total put their names forward, including previous Speaker, House Speaker, Greg Fergus. MPs are back in the House today for the launch of the new session of Parliament. Meanwhile, King Charles and Queen Camilla are touching down in Ottawa later this afternoon. They're spending two days in the Capitol with the King delivering the speech from the throne tomorrow. Nicole Williams has more. I love the royals. I love everything royal.

Derek Sakely is a self-proclaimed Royal super fan, and he's got an impressive collection to prove it. Mugs, plates, dolls, you name it, all commemorating the British monarchy. And he's one of many in Ottawa hoping for a chance to meet King Charles and Queen Camilla while they're here. I have, like, my King Charles flags ready to wave. Getting some friends together.

We're going to go down and hopefully see them live for the first time. It will be their first visit to Canada as King and Queen, though not their first visit to Ottawa. In fact, Charles and Camilla were here just three years ago. First, the King and Queen will attend a public event in downtown Ottawa. Then there will be a horse-drawn carriage ride through the downtown as they head to the Senate building. Lastly, they'll stop at the National War Memorial to pay their respects.

Nicole Williams, CBC News, Ottawa. An Ontario judge has approved a $500 million settlement in a class action lawsuit against Loblaw. The settlement comes after the company admits to being part of a bread price fixing scheme. The decision ends one chapter in a saga that includes allegations against some of the country's biggest grocers, including Metro, Sobeys, Walmart Canada, Canada Bread and Giant Tiger. They all deny any involvement in price fixings, but Loblaws is admitting to being involved in a manipulation of the price of bread dating back more than 20 years. More than 50 people were killed overnight in Gaza in the latest round of Israeli airstrikes.

While this latest Israeli military campaign continues, questions are being asked about how emergency aid will be delivered throughout the territory. This as the head of a new aid group has stepped down just as it was set to begin operations. Tom Perry has the latest now from Jerusalem. Palestinian civil defense officials say rescuers pulled more than 30 bodies from the site of one Israeli attack. The Israeli military says it was targeting a Hamas, an Islamic Jihad command center. As the bombardment continues, there are new questions about how and when humanitarian assistance will reach civilians in Gaza. The head of a newly formed group, Jake Wood, has resigned as director of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,

citing concerns about the group's impartiality. Jan Eglund is secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council. He says Wood's group, backed by the U.S. and Israeli governments, would militarize and politicize humanitarian assistance. And we cannot have aid in a war zone that is not in conformity with neutrality and impartiality.

Israel says the new group will prevent aid being stolen by Hamas. Tom Perry, CBC News, Jerusalem. Now to the war in Ukraine, and after firing hundreds of drones and missiles over the weekend, Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing harsh criticism from an unlikely source. I'm not happy with what Putin's doing. He's killing a lot of people and 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.

It's Trump speaking to reporters yesterday on Air Force One. He later posted on social media that Putin has gone quote, absolutely crazy. This comes after three straight nights of heavy Russian aerial attacks. Saturday's bombardment was the biggest of the war, claiming at least 12 lives. And that is The World This Hour. From CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.