The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/28 at 07:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/28 at 07:00 EDT

I thought that I knew Amanda Knox's story. She was the girl accused of murder in Italy who spent four years in prison for a crime that she did not commit. But then she told me what her life has really been like. I had finally done something in my life that defined me more than this horrible thing that had happened to me. I'm Kathleen Goldtar and this week on Crime Story, Amanda Knox in her own words. Find Crime Story wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings.

Parliament gets down to work today with a new speaker, a new prime minister, and plenty of new faces in the House of Commons. Roughly one-third of the MPs in the House, including Prime Minister Mark Carney, were elected for the first time in April and are about to face their first question period. And for the first time in two decades, Conservative leader Pierre Poliev will not be on the floor, this after failing to win re-election in his home riding. Former party leader Andrew Scheer is leading the Conservative caucus. Survivors of a government program that sought tens of thousands of indigenous youth taken

from their families for off-reserve education are being urged to reach out to claim compensation. Between 1951 and 1992, the federal government paid non-Indigenous families to host students under the Indian Boarding Homes Initiative. The result was in many cases horrific trauma, along with the loss of language and culture. Kate Rutherford reports. 71-year-old Marilyn Godereau laughs nervously having never talked about the trauma of being relocated to a different community for high school. She's a member of Metogamy First Nation south of Timmins, Ontario. The government placed her and her cousin with a young couple in Kirkland

Lake in 1969. This was the worst night we ever had. That was the night their landlord threatened to burn the house down. After that they were boarded in a home that wasn't any better. They are among an estimated 40,000 survivors eligible for compensation after a 2019 class-action lawsuit against Canada was settled out of court. Efforts are being made to connect with survivors. $50 million is set aside to recognize loss of language, culture, and to compensate for additional abuses. The deadline to file claims is February, 2027.

Kate Rutherford, CBC News, Metogamy First Nation. The latest consumer debt report by TransUnion Canada is showing that total debt continued to grow in the first quarter of 2025 compared to the year before. The credit tracking agency says Gen Z consumers saw their outstanding balance grow by close to 30 percent. The report says total outstanding debt grew to more than $2 trillion in the first quarter

of year-over-year numbers. Delinquencies or mispayments were also up by 10% over the year previous, due mainly to new credit consumers. As Russia and Ukraine exchange some of the heaviest drone and missile attacks of the war, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is in Berlin today for talks with new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. And while German support is essential to the Ukrainian war effort, Zelensky's top priority is to get peace talks underway with Vladimir Putin. Anna Cunningham reports.

In comments published ahead of the talks, Zelensky says if President Vladimir Putin is not comfortable with a bilateral meeting, he is ready for any format, including, he says, a Trump-Putin-Me meeting. He says he will attend next month's G7 meeting in Alberta. But he dismissed Russian suggestions that the next round of peace talks takes place in Belarus, a key ally of Russia, saying that is impossible. Instead, he says the most realistic locations are Turkey, Switzerland or the Vatican. The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the neutral status of Ukraine remains

one of Russia's key demands in peace negotiations. Ukraine has already said it is ready for an unconditional ceasefire. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London. Now to the Stanley Cup Playoffs and the Edmonton Oilers. So, Mooshard Mooshard across for McDavid, now to Vincent Hopkins, what a goal! That goal from Edmonton winger Corey Perry proved to be the game winner as Edmonton was on its way

to a 4-1 win over the Dallas Stars. The Oilers now lead that best of seven Western final, three games to one, and can finish off the Stars tomorrow night in Dallas. The winner of this series moves on to play for the Stanley Cup. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.