The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/26 at 19:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 26, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/26 at 19:00 EDT

How did the internet go from this? You could actually find what you were looking for right away, bound to this. I feel like I'm in hell. Spoiler alert, it was not an accident. I'm Cory Doctorow, host of Who Broke the Internet from CBC's Understood. In this four-part series, I'm going to tell you

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 Stephanie Scanderis. Quebec Liberal MP Francis Scarpelegia has been elected Speaker of the House of Commons. Picking a new speaker is the first order of business for MPs taking their seats following the election. Scarpelegia is expected to preside over a brief but busy spring parliamentary session.

Evan Dyer has more. It is the member for Lac-Saint-Louis. Thanks to Scarpelegia was selected from a field that originally included six liberals, two conservatives, and a green. The greens Elizabeth May had dropped out of the race on the weekend and both conservatives withdrew their names this morning. Former speaker Greg Fergus, the Liberal member for Hull-Elmer, ran for the post again but was defeated. Some conservatives had seen Fergus as too partisan for the role. Scarpa Legia appealed for tolerance.

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. Scarpelegia said he hoped to see more decorum in this session and that while the U.S. increasingly resembles imperial Rome, he said Canada should try to be more like an Athenian democracy. Evan Dyer, CBC News, Ottawa. We now invite the team captain and his majesty to the centre of the rink for the ceremonial plug drop. The king taking in a street hockey game in Ottawa's Lansdowne Park.

Charles and Queen Camilla made their first stop in the nation's capital after landing there this afternoon. The royal couple is on a brief visit to Canada, less than 24 hours in all, but it will include Charles delivering the throne speech Tuesday. That'll take place in the Senate chamber. Alberta is looking to ensure only what it considers age-appropriate books are offered in school libraries. The province says it's consulting with parents first to define what exactly that means. Corey Segers has more.

We can't ban books. The minister doesn't have that authority. Alberta Education Minister Demetrios Nikolaidis says the aim of the policy is not to target specific books, but rather to create guidelines. A survey is being launched to get parents' perspective on what books are deemed inappropriate. Books that contain graphic sexual images or graphic depictions, that's what our concern is. The province pointed to four graphic novels, available in some public schools in Edmonton

and Calgary, that contained explicit drawings. In a joint statement, trustees from both school boards say the government did not raise concerns with them before this news conference. Jason Schilling is with the Alberta Teachers Association. It's a slippery slope that we get on and I'm worried that we're going to get into a myriad of book challenges and book bannings that we see happening south of the border happening here in Alberta. The province hopes to have a new policy in place by the next school year. Corey Segers, CBC News, Edmonton. A car ramming incident in Liverpool has injured nearly 50 people. UK officials say two of them, including a child, are seriously hurt.

Police have arrested a 53 year old British man believed to be the driver of the vehicle that plowed into a large crowd on a busy street. It happened at a victory parade celebrating the Liverpool Soccer Club following the Premier League Championship. Jenny Sims is assistant chief constable with Merseyside Police. We believe this to be an isolated incident and we are not currently looking for anyone else in relation to it. The incident is not being treated as terrorism. Sims urges people not to speculate on the circumstances of the collision. An Ontario judge has approved a 500 million dollar settlement over a

scheme to fix the price of bread. The class-action lawsuit was brought against Loblaw and parent company George Weston Limited. Plaintiffs say during a 16-year period at least one dollar and fifty cents was added to the price of a loaf. The settlements approval means millions of Canadians will now be able to receive a bit of extra dough. Those who purchased packaged bread between 2001 and 2021 are eligible. Records show about a quarter of the funds will be allocated to Quebec residents, and the remainder will go to people outside that province. and the remainder will go to people outside that province.

And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Stephanie Scanderis.