The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/28 at 08:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/28 at 08:00 EDT

We get it. Choosing a news podcast is hard. Some cover a lot of headlines. Others are a deep dive on just one story. Here at Your World Tonight, we're the best of both worlds, covering the biggest stories of the day, but with enough time for you to actually understand them. The full picture in under half an hour. I'm Susan Bonner, host of Your World Tonight. Find us wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. With the throne speech now in the books, MPs get down to work today in the House of Commons. And with parliamentary business already tabled, the ruling liberals have launched a busy agenda.

Here's Janice McGregor. When MPs reconvened after the throne speech yesterday, the government's spending estimates were immediately tabled. House Leader Stephen McKinnon laid out a plan for debating and then voting to authorize those. Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne introduced the personal income tax cut. MPs will vote to authorize that before the summer.

But for this first week, the House is going to be debating the priorities that the government laid out in yesterday's throne speech. And surprise, Andrew Scheer, who now serves as opposition leader, wasn't impressed. It's not good enough to say what you intend to do. You have to provide some kind of a road map to get there. No one expects the Conservatives to support the throne speech when it comes to a vote

a week from today, but the Liberals are expected to find the few additional votes they need elsewhere to establish the confidence of the House and then get down to governing again. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. It's a mounting concern across the country and in particular this spring in the Yukon. Indigenous leaders are worried that as the search continues for residential school unmarked graves, support for these efforts may be diminishing. Katrin Pilkington has more now from Whitehorse.

They're saying that's false information. Sandra Johnson is an elder may be diminishing. Katrin Pilkington has more now from Whitehorse. They're saying that's false information. Sandra Johnson is an elder with the Yukon Residential Schools Missing Children Project. She's concerned federal funding cuts and growing residential school denialism will hinder the group's plans this year, plans that involve ground penetrating radar searches as well as archival research.

This really did happen, and it's still happening in subtle ways. Over the past year, the federal government has made cuts to organizations that support search efforts. Some indigenous researchers worry that cuts could fuel denialism. They say they're disturbed by some of the discourse they've seen on social media and heard from Canadian politicians. It just seems only recently that there's been this enormous pushback. That's Raymond Frogner, senior director of research with the National Centre for Truth

and Reconciliation. It's unclear what funding will look like under Prime Minister Mark Carney. The federal government did not return a request for comment by deadline. Katrin Pokington, CBC News, Whitehorse. A 96-year-old Dartmouth Nova Scotia woman in need of a family doctor is taking matters into her own hands. As we hear now from Nicolas Sagan, Dorothy Lamont has taken an ad out in her local newspaper. Kind of like your personal advertisement.

96-year-old Dorothy Lamont and her son Stuart huddle around the local newspaper. On page three, an ad titled Seeking a Physician, written by Dorothy. She says it's her last ditch effort to find a doctor after three years without one. Any problem I get, I have no one to turn to. Though Dorothy's method is unique, her story isn't. An estimated 6.5 million Canadians don't have a family doctor. In Nova Scotia, that number is decreasing, but still sits at more than 90,000 people, close to 9 percent of the population. At 96, I think you deserve a bit better.

Stuart Lamont says his mother isn't trying to make a political statement, just stand up for herself and other seniors. After the ad was published, a medical clinic called saying a new doctor could take Dorothy as a patient. Nicola Sagan, CBC News, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The latest global forecast is suggesting that while the last decade was the hottest ever recorded, the next five years could be even hotter. We're getting more frequent and intense heat waves, more extreme rainfall events, more devastating droughts.

We will see all of those being exacerbated as the global temperatures continue to rise. Speaking to the BBC, that is Liz Bentley. She is the chief executive of the Royal Meteorological Society. She says there's an 80% chance that at least one of the next five years will exceed 2024 as the warmest on record. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.