The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/26 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 26, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/26 at 16:00 EDT

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I'm Stephanie Scanderis. King Charles is now in Canada on a two-day visit. He and Queen Camilla have already made several stops on the trip, culminating in tomorrow's speech from the throne. David Thurton has more. A Canadian forces jet carrying Charles and Camilla landed in the nation's capital shortly after 1 p.m.

Sunny skies and smiling faces greeted the royal couple on the tarmac, including Prime Minister Mark Carney and his wife. Then it was off to a farmers market on the outskirts of downtown Arles. Outside, large crowds gathered, shouting and cheering Charles, who is making his first visit to Canada since becoming king. Soon it was game time. The king dropping the puck at a street hockey event. Missy, thank you, Your Majesty. It's a tight schedule for the Royals, less than 24 hours in all. Charles headed to Rideau Hall, the Governor General's residence, to plant a ceremonial tree.

Official appearances before Charles officially opens Parliament Tuesday, delivering the speech from the throne outlining the new Liberal government's agenda. David Thurton, CBC News, Ottawa. Frances Scarpelegia has been elected the new House Speaker. The 67-year-old Liberal has been MP for Quebec's Lac-Saint-Louis riding since 2004. In thanking those in the House, Scarpelegia jokingly spoke about the friction between the parties he is expected to deal with.

At the end of a mandate when things tend to get a little feistier, I would remind members that we are at the beginning of a mandate in the selfish hope that you will afford me a little grace period. The Speaker's election marks the start of the 45th Parliament. A judge has now approved a half-billion dollar settlement in a case involving the price fixing of bread nationwide, as Jamie Strashen reports affected shoppers could soon see a payout. Calling it an excellent and fair result for all concerned, an Ontario judge has ended years of litigation stemming from a class action suit that accused

Loblaw and its parent company of being part of a years long practice to fix the price of bread. More than $400 million will be paid out, about 20% in Quebec, the rest spread across the country. Anybody who bought bread between 2001 and 2021 is eligible, the online claims process is not yet open. Loblaw already paid out about $ million dollars in gift cards to shoppers who paid on average a dollar fifty more for a Loaf of bread than they should have Canada West University professor Daniel Chai says the large dollar figure reflects the wide impact

They're buying it all the time on a weekly basis and as a result That's that's the consequence of coming up with this very large dollar figure. Chai says this deal could lead to other retailers involved in similar class action suits to reach settlements. Jamie Strash in CBC News, Toronto. Alberta will conduct a review to make sure libraries and elementary schools have age-appropriate books.

The province says it has found books with graphic depictions of nudity, alcohol and drug use. Education Minister Demetrios Nikolaidis says the public input of parents is crucial to creating guidelines for school boards to follow. I think it's ultimately their final decision as to what kinds of material their children should be exposed to. In some of the preliminary research and survey work that we've done, I think it was well over 90% said that books containing graphic sexual images should not be available anywhere in an elementary school environment. Nikolaides stresses that the process is about creating consistent standards and does not involve banning specific books from library shelves. Police in Liverpool say they have arrested a 53-year-old British man

after a car collided with a large crowd of soccer fans. They were out celebrating their club's Premier League title. Prime Minister Keir Starmer calls it an appalling scene, adding his thoughts are with all those injured or affected. Police say they are working to determine the circumstances leading up to the collision. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Stephanie Scanderis.