World Report - May 28: Wednesday's top stories in 10 minutes

Episode Date: May 28, 2025

<p>Indigenous leaders in Yukon say support for the search for unmarked graves near former residential schools appears to be diminishing. </p><p>Prime Minister Mark Carney makes his Question Period debut. </p><p>US President Donald Trump says Canada will have to pay 61 Billion USD to join Golden Dome missile defence system. </p><p>Israel says its forces have killed senior Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar. </p><p>World Meteorological Organization warns the next 5 years could be the hottest on record, and on average, warm by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. </p><p>Two men convicted in a cross-border human smuggling case to be sentenced in U.S. </p><p>US embassies around the world ordered to stop processing new visas for foreign students.</p>

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This is a CBC podcast. This is World Report. Good morning. I'm Marcia Young. Indigenous leaders in Yukon say they are concerned. Support appears to be diminishing in the search for unmarked graves near former residential schools. As the ground thaws and the federal government changes, they say they are worried the project will face cuts. As Katrin Pilkington tells us, there is also concern public opinion is turning against them.

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, in different ways. And one of the ways is by cutting up the financial help that we need in order to get this work done. Over the past year the federal government has

made cuts to organizations that support search efforts. Some indigenous researchers worry the 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. The TRC has established that thousands died at the schools. Judy Gingell is chair of the Yukon Missing Children Project. She says many parents were never told if their children had died or where they were. They just didn't come back in the spring. A lot of our elders at that time have no idea where the children are passed. So you can imagine

the work that we need, the healing. 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. For Gingell, only one thing is clear. There's no certainty as to where we're going to go with this project. Katrin Pokington, CBC News, Whitehorse. The challenges before the Canadian government are significant. Mark Carney's plan to address them, now laid out by the speech from the throne, his time to take action is limited, and the Prime Minister's agenda is packed, starting with a Liberal Caucus meeting this morning and his first question period in the House of Commons this

afternoon. Let's go to Janice McGregor in our Parliamentary Bureau. And Janice, Parliament has urgent business it needs to get done. Walk us through it. That's right, Marcia, because the House hasn't met since December when MPs reconvened after the throne speech yesterday, the government's spending estimates were immediately tabled. House leader Stephen McKinnon laid out a plan for debating and then voting to authorize those. So federal funding is properly scrutinized again.

Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, true to his word, introduced the personal income tax cut that liberals campaigned on. MPs will vote to authorize that before the summer. But for this first week, the House is going to be debating the priorities that the government laid out in yesterday's throne speech. And surprise, Andrew Scheer, who now serves as opposition leader, wasn't impressed. It's not good enough to say what you intend to do.

You have to provide some kind of a roadmap to get there. Look, no one expects the conservatives to support the throne speech when it comes to a vote a week from today, but the Liberals are expected to find the few additional votes they need elsewhere to establish the confidence of the House and then get down to governing again. So when Mark Carney faces his first question period this afternoon, what will you be looking for? Well, how this House rookie performs in his debut, of course. But look, some of the most urgent issues he's likely to be grilled on unfold away from Parliament. If you think about the resource development and trade infrastructure demands that he's going to be discussing with the premiers next

week, the ongoing tariff talks with Washington, something the government would love to make progress on so it isn't hanging over the G7 summit in Kananaskis in a few short weeks, and the shift to massive defence spending, giving Canada more to show for itself with NATO partners at the end of June. These are all matters that Carney has to nail down elsewhere, then bring back to Parliament to authorize, perhaps in the form of a fall budget. Thank you, Janice. You're welcome. Janice McGregor reporting from Ottawa. US President Donald Trump says if Canada wants to join his proposed Golden Dome missile defense system, it will cost $61 billion U.S. dollars. But if Canada becomes the 51st state, he says it will cost nothing to join.

On social media, Trump claimed Ottawa is considering the offer. But in an interview with Power and Politics, Prime Minister Mark Carney said he is focused on strengthening security agreements with other countries. We are seeing the danger of over-reliance on the United States economically and also from a security perspective. So we will cooperate where necessary, when it's in both of our interests very clearly, but we won't necessarily cooperate. Carney says he hopes Canada will be able to join Rearm Europe by July 1st. It's a European defense plan which will see countries spend 1.25 trillion dollars on defense over the next five years. If you missed the exclusive interview with Prime Minister Mark Carney, you can listen to it today on the

Power and Politics podcast. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is confirming his forces have killed senior Hamas leader, Mohammed Sinwar. He was the younger brother of the militant group's deceased leader. Yaya Sinwar is believed to have mastermind the October 2023 attack on Israel. Mohammed Sinwar was believed to be the target of an Israeli strike on a hospital in southern Gaza earlier this month. The Gaza Health Ministry says that attack killed 28 Palestinians and injured more than 50 others.

Globally, the last 10 years were the hottest ever measured. And the World Meteorological Organization says the next five years could be even hotter. years were the hottest ever measured. And the World Meteorological Organization says the next five years could be even hotter. It says there's an 80% chance at least one of the next five years will exceed 2024 as the warmest on record. Liz Bentley is the chief executive of the Royal Meteorological Society. She told the BBC the effects could be devastating. Even with the current warming that we've seen, we're getting more frequent and intense heat

waves, more extreme rainfall events, more devastating droughts. We will see all of those being exacerbated as the global temperatures continue to rise. The annual climate update says there is a 70% chance that on average the next five years will be warmer by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. That puts the world dangerously close to the breaking of the Paris Agreement target. The international agreement aims to limit rising global temperatures caused by the burning of fossil fuels. Two men convicted in a human smuggling case are expected to be

sentenced in Minnesota today. The case involved the deaths of a family of four from India. They were found frozen to death in a Manitoba field in 2022. The family was trying to walk across the border into the US. The two men were convicted for being a part of a smuggling ring. U.S. prosecutors are asking for nearly 20 years for the alleged leader and nearly 11 years for the driver who was supposed to pick up the family. U.S. embassies around the world have been ordered to stop processing new visas for foreign students. It is part of U.S. President Donald Trump's crackdown on certain universities and colleges. But some critics say it's just another attack on academic freedom. of, US President Donald Trump's crackdown on certain universities and colleges.

But some critics say it's just another attack on academic freedom. The CBC's Richard Madden joins me now from Washington. Richard, what can you tell us? Yeah, according to diplomatic cable seen by several media outlets here, the order was signed by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday, telling US consulates and embassies to pause all foreign student applications until further guidance. The administration believes foreign students are mostly to blame for the mass protests on university campuses and it blames the elite liberal universities, especially Harvard,

for allowing anti-Semitism to flourish. This order comes days after a judge temporarily paused President Trump's order to block Harvard from accepting international students. Harvard professor Mark Weiskopf says this is an act of retaliation, a personal vendetta by the president. It literally hurts hundreds of millions of Americans who benefit from serious research in this country and people around the world who benefit from serious research in this country and people around the world who benefit from the work that we do.

Now universities rely heavily on foreign students' tuition for its finances so this move could have a huge impact on its bottom lines. Now another hurdle for international students is this newly proposed plan to screen their social media. What do we know about that? Yeah, so the State Department could also review the social media history of all foreign student applications.

Many State Department officials have reportedly complained privately that the language of what's acceptable of free speech or not is vague at best. One questioned if posting a Palestinian flag on Instagram is grounds for extra scrutiny. So clearly, this would have a tremendous impact on universities should this order be enacted permanently. Thank you, Richard.

Anytime. The CBC's Richard Madden in Washington. That is the latest national and international news from World Report. I'm Marcia Young. young.