The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/30 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 30, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/30 at 16:00 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. I'm Susan Bonner, host of Your World Tonight. Find us wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazel Lloyd. Manitoba Premier Wab Kanu says the wildfires are posing serious threats across the province.

He says several communities are now surrounded by the flames. Some 17,000 people have already been ordered to leave their homes, and Canoe is warning of more evacuations to come. To our fellow Manitobans, we can expect thousands of more people from the northern parts of our province to be moved out of their communities or neighbouring communities to find their way to safety in other parts of Manitoba, predominantly here in Winnipeg. Canoe is thanking the Canadian Armed Forces for their help moving people to safety and the Canadian Red Cross and Salvation Army for their parts in providing supplies and shelter to those whose lives have been upended.

There's a bit of good news out of a remote northern Alberta town. Eight firefighters trapped by a wildfire are now free. Officials had lost contact with the group in Chippewaun Lake about 450 kilometers north of Edmonton. They were forced to shelter in place and wait to be rescued. Hours later they were able to drive to safety. A forestry crew was sent to clear fallen trees from the road. One of the five former World Junior hockey players accused of sexual assault is being cross-examined by the Crown. NHL goaltender Carter Hart began his defense testimony yesterday at the trial in London, Ontario. Karen Pauls has more from the courthouse.

Crown attorney Megan Cunningham questioned Carter Hart on the events of what happened the night of the alleged sexual assault in June 2018. He says it was only the fifth time he had consumed alcohol and he was drunk with no memory of periods of time. When he got the text from Michael McLeod offering three-way sex, Hart says he assumed it was an agreed-upon plan between McLeod and the complainant known under a publication ban as EM. Hart says he was open to sex with McLeod and a woman and he went to room 209 with that hope. Once there he says he remembers EM repeatedly asking the guys in the room to have sex with her. In earlier testimony, EM says she was slapped on her buttocks so hard that she had to tell the person slapping her

to stop. Hart says he has no memory of that. Hart told court he doesn't think anyone would have done anything to hurt her and never felt things were getting out of hand. Karen Pauls, CBC News, London, Ontario. Prime Minister Mark Carney laid out his priorities in front of municipal leaders today. Carney is promising to move fast on slashing development charges to build more homes and improve public safety. Olivia Stefanovic reports. We will move from delay to delivery. A new Prime Minister setting a new relationship with Canada's municipalities.

And work relentlessly to keep Canadians safe. Mark Carney says his government will soon introduce legislation to stop drugs and guns from flowing across the Canadian border, while also hiring a thousand more RCMP officers, making bail harder to get for repeat offenders, and partnering with cities and towns to address the housing shortage. We will work with you to slash development charges in half, in half, for all multi-unit housing. And as Canada is locked in a trade war with the U.S., Kearney says he will focus on building projects of national significance, including a high-speed rail link from southwestern Ontario to Quebec City.

Olivia Stifanovic, CBC News, Ottawa. Taylor Swift now owns her entire catalogue of music. The pop star has bought back rights to the master recordings of her first six albums about six years after her former record label sold her body of work to a private equity firm. Swift then began re-recording and re-releasing her in earlier songs in an attempt to gain back control. In a letter to fans today she said, all the music I've ever made now belongs to me. And that's the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.