The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/18 at 04:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/18 at 04:00 EDT

I'm Joshua Jackson, and I'm returning for the Audible original series, Oracle, Season 3, Murder at the Grandview. Six forty-somethings took a boat out a few days ago. One of them was found dead. The hotel, the island, something wasn't right about it. Psychic agent Nate Russo is back on the case, and you know when Nate's killer instincts are required, anything's possible.

This world's gonna eat you alive. Listen to Oracle Season 3, Murder at the Grandview, now on Audible. From CBC News, The World This Hour, I'm Gavin Day. World leaders have been departing Alberta after the G7 Summit. The gathering concluded Tuesday without US President Donald Trump, but even without him there in person, his influence was never far away. CBC's Murray Brewster has more. This was discussed by all seven leaders.

Prime Minister Mark Carney clarifying what went on behind closed doors as G7 leaders discussed what to say about Ukraine. Curiously, as the summit closed, there was no separate joint statement from leaders about the situation in Eastern Europe. Instead, Carney referenced the country's struggle in his chairman's remarks, hitting all of the points leaders agreed upon. The recognition of the importance of the initiative of President Trump to achieve a lasting peace. However, officials in Carney's office told Canadian journalists on background that the United States wanted any criticism of Russia watered down in earlier drafts because it

would endanger Donald Trump's peace initiative. Those officials later retracted those remarks. Carney, however, in his news conference, hinted that other nations had wanted him to go further in his statement. Murray Brewster, CBC News, Banff, Alberta. Air raid sirens in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. Cities across Israel have braced for more missiles from Iran. The two sides have been exchanging strikes for a sixth day.

US-based group human rights activists say at least 585 people have been killed in Iran. Close to 250 of them are civilians. US President Donald Trump has been calling for Iran's unconditional surrender while also hinting the US may join in the fighting. Police and volunteers in Quebec searched for another night for any sign of a three-year-old girl missing since Sunday. They searched through ditches along the highway west of Montreal Tuesday night. 34-year-old mother Rachel Ella Todd has been charged with unlawful abandonment of a child. Meantime, there is still no trace of two young

children who went missing in Nova Scotia more than six weeks ago. Police are saying very little about what may have happened to them other than they have no evidence to suggest the children were abducted. It is a mystery that is baffling the country. Kayla Hounsell has the latest. Belinda Gray is pleading for information about the whereabouts of her grandchildren, Lily and Jack Sullivan, six and four years old,

missing from their rural Nova Scotia home since Friday, May 2nd. It's quite rare. In my career, I've never seen two missing children go at the same time. The RCMP's Corporal Guillaume Tromble maintains there is no evidence to suggest the children were abducted. More than 50 people have been interviewed. Gray says her son, the children's biological father, has been questioned three times. A couple of days ago they had contact and they told them that they weren't looking his way anymore, that everything was fine. She says she doesn't have much hope the children will be found alive, and even worries the mystery of what happened to them may never be solved.

Kayla Hounsell, CBC News, Lansdowne Station, Nova Scotia. Experts say freezing permafrost may have led to the destruction of a village in Switzerland last month. Most of Blattin was flattened in a landslide. Swiss scientists say permafrost in the country's Alps is now at the warmest level since records began. And as it thaws, so does the risk of rock falls and landslides.

On dynasty's doorstep, the Florida Panthers back to back Stanley Cup champions. And as seen on CBC and Sportsnet, the Stanley Cup will call Florida home for another year. The Panthers beating the Edmonton Oilers 5-1 in game six of the Stanley Cup Finals. They take the series four games to two and successfully defend their Stanley Cup Championship beating the Oilers for the second final in a row. That means the cup drought will continue for Canada's teams.

The 1993 Montreal Canadiens remain the last Canadian franchise to win the cup. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Gavin Day.