The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/28 at 11:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/28 at 11:00 EDT

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And the governing liberals are insisting that one of their top priorities is to continue reshaping the country's diplomatic relationship with the United States. Here's Defense Minister David McGinty. Look, we're going to continue to do what's right for Canadians. And that includes making sure that we are secure, that we are sovereign, and we're going to continue to manage our relationship with not just the United States, but as we heard the Prime Minister say yesterday, with the European Union. Stephen Cheney Prime Minister Mark Carney announced yesterday

that he wants Canada, in theory, to join Rearm Europe by July 1st. It's an EU initiative aimed at boosting European defense capabilities over the next five years. 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. Anna Cunningham, President, The New York Times, New York Times

Welcome to the next. Anna Cunningham, The New York Times, New York Times 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

Sergey 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. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is confirming the country's defense forces have killed senior Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar. He is the younger brother of the militant group's deceased leader, Yahya Sinwar. The elder brother is believed to have mastermind the 2023 October attacks on Israel. Mohammed Sinwar was believed to have been the target of an Israeli airstrike on a hospital in

southern Gaza earlier this month. The Gaza Health Ministry is saying that attack killed at least 28 people. Survivors of a government program that saw tens of thousands of indigenous youth taken from their families for off-reserve education are being urged now 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. I blow my nose before I cry. 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 weather network is out with its long-range summer forecast and across most regions of the country we're being told to expect plenty of sun and hot temperatures.

That means drought of course and wildfire concerns, primarily though across the southern prairies. Hot and humid conditions are expected throughout most of Ontario, Quebec wildfire concerns, primarily though across the southern prairies. Hot and humid conditions are expected throughout most of Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes, and that is raising fire concerns as well, considering those conditions lead to thunderstorms and lightning. And that is the World This Hour.