The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/17 at 04:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/17 at 04:00 EDT

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His departure caught many at the summit in Kenanaskis off guard. Murray Brewster has more. The people on basically is at the negotiating table. They want to make a deal. And as soon as I leave here, we're going to be doing something, but I have to leave here. U.S. President Donald Trump, an hour before his sudden departure was made public, and he couldn't have been any more cryptic. As G7 leaders posed for the family photo, Trump was just as evasive, telling reporters,

you see what I see in the Middle East. His host, Prime Minister Mark Carney, was gracious. I'm very grateful for the President's presence. I fully understand why he was featured. The problem. Trump was so central to the summit, whether it was dealing with the global trade war or talking about a push for a ceasefire in Ukraine, his absence creates a vacuum. Also, a number of world leaders were lining up waiting to talk with Trump.

India's Narendra Modi landed just after Trump had announced he was leaving. Marie Brewster, CBC News, Banff, Alberta. France's president may have shed some light on Trump's sudden departure. Bampf, Alberta. Aaron Ross Powell, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New

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York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New why he was heading back to Washington. Benjamin Netanyahu says the campaign against Iran is changing the Middle East. Israel's prime minister speaking as the Israeli military hit more targets in Tehran. They're claiming to have killed Iran's wartime chief of staff. Netanyahu told a news conference Iranians were seeing that the regime was weaker than they thought. We have eliminated Iran's security leadership, including three chiefs of staff, the commander of their air force, two heads of intelligence services, the army and the revolutionary guards. We have struck their chief of operations.

We are eliminating them, one after the other, and our hand can still reach further. Israel says it had destroyed two Iranian fighter jets. Netanyahu says his country has air superiority over Tehran. Anti-aircraft batteries firing in Kyiv overnight. Russia launching its latest barrage of Ukraine's capital. Ukrainian officials say at least 14 people are dead, another 44 are wounded. The Air Force says it shot down 402 of 440 drones and 26 of 32 missiles. Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is set to be in Alberta Tuesday as a guest at the GN G7 summit. The University of Alberta's medical school says it will no longer require applicants to complete a controversial admissions test.

The test, called the CASPER, is widely used by medical schools across the country, and its use had been the subject of a go-public investigation. Erica Johnson reports. The CASPER test, designed by a Canadian company, claims to assess people's soft skills like empathy and ethics, and predict who'll make good doctors. Canada's biggest med schools, like U of T and UBC, don't use the CASPER, but 12 other med schools do. Starting next year, the University of Alberta's med school says it made the decision to stop

using it, in part because of the limitations of the test which didn't provide additional value to the admissions process. Researchers Go Public spoke to like Jennifer Cleland with experience in situational judgment tests say there's no good evidence to back up the test claims. I was actually very surprised at how poor the research was. The company behind the Casper Acuityuity Insights, told Go Public the test is backed by decades of research and that it respects the autonomy of every medical school's evolving selection process. Erica Johnson, CBC News, Vancouver.

And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Gavin Day.