The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/28 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/28 at 12:00 EDT

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preparing today for the first question period since last month's federal election. And among the many rookie MPs in the House of Commons is Prime Minister Mark Carney, who is making history. Here is Peter Donnolo, a former communications director under Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. It's really remarkable because he's the first prime minister in our history in 150 plus years never to have previously sat in the House of Commons. So that means not only did he never answer a question as a PM or as a minister, but he

never even asked a question as an opposition member. So this is his first ever question period and he'll be in the prime minister seat. With Prime Minister Carney included, roughly one-third of the MPs in the House of Commons today were elected for the first time in April. 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. In what is the largest child sex abuse case ever to go to trial in France,

a retired surgeon has been sentenced today to 20 years in prison. The case against 74-year-old Joel Luskarnak involves aggravated rape and sexual assault involving close to 300 patients. Most of them were children who were abused while under sedation. The abuse occurred over a 25-year span dating back to 1989. It's a mounting concern right across the country and in particular in the Yukon. Indigenous leaders are worried that as the search continues for residential school unmarked graves, support for these efforts may be diminishing. Caitlin 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 Center 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 Pilkington, CBC News, Whitehorse. 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 Nicholas 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% 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. Nicholas Sagan, CBC News, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.