Your World Tonight - Growing the grid, Ontario vs resale tickets, super El Niño, and more

Episode Date: May 14, 2026

Prime Minister Mark Carney explains how he plans to double Canada’s electricity capacity by 2050. One key player: natural gas. In order to use it to generate electricity, Ottawa needs to adjust the Clean Electricity Regulations, aimed at cutting emissions in the sector.And: Tickets? Who’s got tickets? Ontario is cracking down on ticket resale sites, saying they can only post tickets at their original face value. But the devil is in the details; the sites say it’s hard to know what those values are if tickets are purchased elsewhere.Also: You’ve heard of the Pacific Ocean warming trend El Niño. This year, meteorologists have their eyes open for “Super El Niño”. We’ll have more on how it could affect the weather in Canada and around the world.Plus: Trump in China, refugees left with no path to Canada, Cricket Canada under fire, and more.

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Doubling down on Canadian electricity, the Prime Minister wants twice as much capacity and thousands more jobs by 2050. But that may come with a cost. This is Your World Tonight. I'm Stephanie Scandaris. It's Thursday, May 14th, coming up on. 6 p.m. Eastern. Also on the podcast? As time moves on and if we don't see any changes with certain companies, they will be talked to and find. Inspections, warnings, fines. Ontario's government

lays out its new plan to clamp down on ticket resellers with inflated prices. Mark Carney is trying to put a jolt into Canada's electricity market. His plan is to double the nation's grid. In terms of and boosting jobs and lowering energy bills. Critics argue those could come at the expense of Canada's climate change targets. Kate McKenna explains. We will double our grid. That's the headline. Prime Minister Mark Carney putting the focus on cleaner energy,

announcing Ottawa's new national electricity strategy, saying Canada needs more electricity fast. If we get it wrong, Canadians will pay higher utility bills. If we're too timid, Canadians will end up. short of power losing good jobs and growing reliant on foreign suppliers. We can't pursue business as usual. He's proposing a trillion dollar investment, using both private and public funds, to double the capacity of the electricity grid by 2050,

as well as adjusting the clean electricity regulations to allow natural gas to play a bigger role. It's a good day. I think when we think about what Canada's energy future is, a lot of it's going to be electric. Mike Powell speaks for electricity Canada, a trade association representing electricity companies. He says he's happy. Changes are coming to the regulations designed to push the sector towards becoming net zero by 2050. What we saw today was a willingness from the government to reconsider those and focus on how do we make sure that we can have a system that is affordable,

that is growing where it needs to, and that takes advantage of assets that we already have. But environmentalists are more concerned. Stephen Thomas is the Clean Energy Manager with the David Suzuki Foundation. He says tomorrow's looming pipeline announcement in Calgary is overshadowing the electricity announcement. It is deeply cynical to announce some good news on electricity on one day while planning to announce bad news on dismantling climate policies and advancing new pipelines the very next day. Carney is expected to announce that he and Alberta Premier Daniel Smith reached an agreement on industrial carbon pricing, a key step in the agreement to work towards a new pipeline.

Conservative leader Pierre Pahliav says that work isn't happening quickly enough. So we want Prime Minister Carney to announce tomorrow that he will permit a pipeline to the Pacific within 100 days of getting Alberta's application. Meanwhile today, the Prime Minister dodged a question about whether Canada will meet its 2030 emissions reduction target. We are putting in place a series of initiatives that will make, material emission reductions will update our climate plans and our emission reduction targets in due course. But environmentalists warn updating the climate targets is more like admitting the government will likely fall short.

Kate McKenna, CBC News, Ottawa. Sparks are also flying tonight over Honda and its move to scrap its Ontario EV plants. The Japanese carmaker suspended the multi-billion dollar project, blaming U.S. tariffs and a source. soft market. Senior business correspondent Peter Armstrong brings us the details behind the decision and the reaction. This is not good news for the future of automotive assembly in Ontario. There's no way to sugarcoat this news. Greg Lason, the digital editor of Automotive News Canada, says it's a blow. It tells me that automakers invested a lot of time and a lot of money and a lot of electric vehicle plans and they did not pan out. The Honda retool in Aliston was heralded as a way for Canada

to lead the way on EV adoption and investment. But EV sales didn't grow nearly as quickly as planned. EV incentives were eliminated. So this decision has been looming for more than a year. With respect to Honda, it's a disappointing decision. For Prime Minister Mark Carney, that disappointment is one more in a growing pile of problems for Canada's automotive industry. EV adoption rates are one, but uncertainty fueled by tariffs in the trade war

is the bigger issue. Terrace have cost automakers billions. Honda lost a staggering $3.6 billion last year alone, the first time in the history of the company that it lost money. And Brendan Sweeney, CEO of Pacific Manufacturing Association of Canada, an organization that represents Honda and Toyota, says automakers simply don't know if Canadian operations will have access to the crucial U.S. market. More than 80% of the vehicles made at Honda in Alastin,

More than 80% of the vehicles made by Toyota in Cambridge and in Woodstock are exported to the United States. So the communities around those plants are on tenterhooks, worried not just about future plans like this one, but about the very foundation of an industry this whole region depends on. New to Kumsa Mayor Richard Norcross says hundreds of other smaller businesses depend on the auto plants. Well, it's all its spin-off jobs as well, too. Of course we worry about employment, especially in these tough economic times. We want to have as much employment here as we possibly can. And therein lies the rub.

Everyone wants as much employment here as possible. Everyone, that is, except for the president of the United States who's made it clear he wants those jobs and these investments to move to the U.S. You know, we don't need cars made in Canada. We don't need cars made in Mexico. We want to make them here. And that's what's happening. Everybody's moving here.

On that front, Honda was adamant today. that the EV plan may be indefinitely delayed, but that it took none of the money, either the federal or provincial governments promised, to help pay for the EV changes, and that none of this will impact current employment or production levels at the manufacturing plant in Alaston. Peter Armstrong, CBC News, Toronto.

International trade was also on the menu in Beijing, along with roast duck and tomato lobster soup. U.S. President Donald Trump attended a state dinner tonight in his honor. Earlier, he had a closed-door meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, where the smiles and handshakes came with a warning. Lisa Xing has more. Donald Trump, with his signature fist pump, stood by Chinese President Xi Jinping,

watching hundreds of school children waving flags, a military honor guard and a 21 gun salute, an extravagant welcome for the U.S. president at the Great Hall of the People on Tiananmen Square, just the way he likes it. This honor, part of a carefully choreographed summit by Beijing, as the leaders try to find common ground, perhaps indicative of Trump's weakened position heading into this visit.

He only had praise for his counterpart. We've had a fantastic relationship. We've gotten along when there were difficulties. We worked it out. However, at the state dinner, she stressed there's not much room for error. China-U.S. relations are the most important. bilateral relationship in the world and must not be messed up, he said. Earlier, the day was focused on trade and tariffs. A success, said Envidia CEO Jensen Huang, part of Trump's

entourage. The video was incredible. President Xi was so gracious, so welcoming. While no deals have been inked yet, the White House stated China expressed interest in buying more U.S. oil. And in a Fox News interview, Trump said this about the Chinese president. They're going to order 200 jets, 200 big ones. That's a lot of jobs. But what wasn't said also speaks volumes. While neither leader spoke publicly about China's tense relationship with Taiwan over its independence, a Chinese readout, later echoed by the foreign ministry, had the sharpest words yet.

Taiwan is the most important issue in China-U-S relations, said spokesperson Guo Jackwin. If not handled, the entire relationship could be in great jeopardy. The U.S. has long seen the island as part of China, while also unofficially maintaining relations and supplying it with weapons. In an interview with NBC, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that policy would not change. Any forced change in the status quo in the situation that's there now would be bad for both countries. Trump, however, has not yet signed off on a $14 billion arms deal for Taiwan.

And Greg Chin, an associate professor of political science at York University, says there could be a way to appease Beijing that way. These are the red lines. These are the core national interests. I think China's sending a message. You want to back off on some of those sales. After clashing over the course of the war, the leaders aligned on Iran, agreeing the Strait of Hormuz should remain open and Tehran could never have a nuclear weapon. Lisa Sheng, CBC News, Toronto. New data suggests Trump's tariffs and taunting about the 51st state are likely affecting travel to the U.S. from Canada even more than previously thought. Statistics Canada figures had shown a 25% decline.

Now, a study by the University of Toronto's School of Cities found cross-border trips were down about 42% year over year. The U of T researchers analyzed data from Canadian mobile devices in U.S. metro areas. They found in some winter destinations, like Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, trips were down as much as 65%. Coming right up, there's new trouble for Cricket Canada after a fifth estate investigation that uncovered allegations of corruption and mismanagement. Also, on the edge of a new life in Canada, years of hope are dashed. for some refugee families, when job offers are suddenly revoked. Later, we'll have this story.

I'm Nick Logan in Vancouver. Have you heard about Super El Nino? Climate scientists predict the warming trend in the Pacific Ocean could be even warmer this year, affecting weather patterns around the world. There's a serious risk that the effect will result in unprecedented weather extremes. What to watch for here in Canada and around the globe. Coming up on Your World Tonight.

Public health officials across Canada are getting in touch with more than two dozen people who were on flights with someone who is infected with hantavirus. Canada's chief public health officer, Dr. Joss Reimer, says their risk of developing the illness is low. She says flight records suggest they did not have close contact with the sick person or sit near them, so they won't need to isolate. Nine people in Canada are still in isolation, six of whom were on the cruise ship where the outbreak, was first detected. Rimer says no one has been tested because none have shown any symptoms. We may offer testing to asymptomatic people if based on the information we gather from our international partners, from our expert group here on the ground, demonstrates that the benefits of the testing would outweigh the risks. And the risks that I see the biggest risk is the false reassurance that

a negative result can provide. If somebody is perhaps testing negative but later could go on to develop pantivirus. I don't want that individual to be taking their isolation requirements less seriously. Three people have died in the outbreak globally and eight more have been confirmed or presumed infected. All of them were on the cruise ship. Ticket scalpers and resale websites like Stubhub and Seatgeek are facing a crackdown in Ontario. The province is launching an initial blitz targeting online brokers as it moves to ban reselling event tickets above face value. As Dave Seglins reports, it's putting some ticket holders and brokers in the hot seat. Essentially, there is no business.

He's wipes us out. What he essentially is doing is in eliminating at least 100 jobs here in Ontario. Irv Deguosto says the Doug Ford government's new anti-skelping law will kill his livelihood. Deguosto is a ticket broker who's been buying and reselling tickets in Toronto for 40 years. years. Sick broker is someone who procures tickets for an event in town or out of town for that sake. Are you a scalper? No, we're brokers.

Scalpers, you may find them on the street. I thought they were eliminated, actually. He says brokers have offices, pay taxes, and provide a valuable service, sourcing tickets for corporate clients and helping holders of season tickets for major sports teams to manage and resell unused seats. That's the reason why brokers are in existence. We've been around for a long time. People depend on us to create a service. And now it seems that Mr. Ford wants to eliminate us. Provincial authorities this week are inspecting online brokers and ticketing sites to ensure they aren't reselling for more than their original prices. The Ontario Minister responsible for the new law

is Stephen Crawford. If they buy tickets or they get season's tickets to Jays or Leaf Games, they may not want to go to all the games, they want to resell them, but they're going to have to sell them at face value. He says brokers and resale websites can still charge a processing fee. They will still be charging a fee. Let me be very clear on that. These companies will still be making money. Where they will not be making excessive profits is if you have a ticket for $200 and you're selling it for $5,000 and they're taking a massive percentage of that, yeah, those days are over. Let me be very, very clear. Those days are over. Frankie Moukine is with Stubhubhub and its parent company via Go-Go. He says price caps

on resellers in other countries have proven unenforceable, and that by barring sites like Stubhub, which have fraud protections and money-back guarantees, it simply pushes resellers onto less regulated websites. It's like whackable. So because the internet is global and it's overseas and enforcement is challenging at best, and the authorities are just unable, I wouldn't say unwilling, but unable to actually enforce this law. But Ontario is going to try, and this week is inspecting Stubbhubb. hub and other resell sites. Scalpers and websites found charging more than face value could face

fines beginning at $3,000 all the way to $250,000 for continuing to ignore the law. Dave Seagland, CBC News, Toronto. Cricket Canada is facing more scrutiny. A fifth state investigation of the sports national governing body exposed mismanagement and allegations of influence by organized crime. Now the International Cricket Council is freezing a major portion of cricket Canada's funding. Fifth Estate co-host Stephen DeSuzza reports. I won't shy away from saying that we're in a very critical stage of the sport overall. Inside the cream-colored walls of the Marriott Hotel Conference Room this past weekend,

Hassan Mirza was all smiles as he shook hands with provincial cricket representatives. The newly elected Cricket Canada director is eager to help turn around the struggling organization. We need to restore our faith, credibility and trust amongst our partners. So we have a lot of work to do. Last month, an investigation by the Fifth Estate, revealed Cricket Canada was rife with mismanagement and detailed allegations of influence by organized crime, including potential match-fixing involving Canada's captain at February's World Cup in India. And I'm hoping that this is a reset and hopefully we can move in the right direction.

But that work got much harder this week. The International Cricket Council, the sports worldwide governing body, froze Cricket Canada's funding. In its communication, it cited an organization mired in dysfunction and lacking financial oversight. And said when it questioned Cricket Canada about its issues, the answers it got back were evasive and incomplete. I have not seen that letter or any communication from ICC, but I... At an event in Brampton, the fifth estate talked to Cricket Canada's new vice president, Ranjee Chodhry, just a few days into the job. We, as a board itself, pledge that we're going to investigate ourselves first.

We're going to cooperate. Funding from the ICC accounts for 60% of Cricket Canada's revenue. It's not clear how the budget freeze will impact the grassroots or the national teams. All have suffered as a result of Cricket Canada's challenges. But the recent election of the new board hasn't wiped the slate completely. The Fifth Estate investigation raised questions about the man elected president. Arvindercosa is alleged to be connected to people, threatening players, and claiming to be members of organized crime.

Claims he denied to CBC and Vice President Choldery says he denied when questioned by the board. No, I don't think it's a concern for us because we had a candid conversation with the president. Another new board member Amit Joshi from Nova Scotia also backed the president. Whatever came up was again unfortunate but as far as the members know, we trust him.

The ICC didn't mention the president or the allegations in its letter but did tell Cricket Canada it has six months to address its issues or risk losing funding altogether. Stephen DeSouza, CBC News, Toronto. Canadian Pacific Railway Company has been cleared of all liability in the 2013 Lackmagantic train disaster.

A runaway train derailed and the oil tankers on board exploded in the heart of the Quebec town, killing 47 people. The Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from families of the victims and others about CP's responsibility. Previous rulings found only the subcontractor operating the train liable. Ukrainian officials say at least 16 people have been killed in two years. days of attacks from Russia, and more are missing in the rubble of a nine-story residential building in Kiev. President Lodemir Zelenskyy calls it Russia's largest aerial attack since the start of the war. He says Moscow launched more than 600 drones and 50 missiles last night,

and that defense units shot most of them down. They were offered a chance at the Canadian dream and a new life. But tonight, for more than a dozen refugees, With approvals and visas in hand, that hope has been ripped away. The issue is linked to a Nova Scotia employer and the promise of work. Kayla Hounsel has their story. Kakuma in Kenya's northwest corner is the crowded, hot and dusty refugee camp, one of the largest in the world. Some of the people who live there have been waiting years to come to Canada,

approved with job offers in hand, until those offers were abruptly rescinded at the 11th hour. After hearing that information, I was very traumatized, even up to now I'm depressed. Juma Asukulu Shaori has been living in the camp for 16 years after fleeing violence in his native Congo. In 2021, he applied to come to Canada under a federal program designed to help skilled, displaced people, find new homes, while simultaneously addressing labor shortages in this country. He was approved and got a job offer with Northwood, a continuing care organization in Nova Scotia. Then in August 2025, Northwood pulled the offer, saying it was no longer in a position to proceed with the supports and positions necessary to welcome new staff.

For almost three years, we are giving us hope. The visa was approved. Then suddenly, you are not interested. So how can you feel? You know I'm a human being. CBC News has obtained seven of the letters Northwood sent to candidates. Idris Abusine Adams says it was difficult to explain to his five-year-old daughter why they weren't going to Canada after all.

Every day she used to ask me that when we are traveling. Northwood refused to answer questions about this, but in a statement a spokesperson said the job offers were extended in good faith several years ago. But as the program's timeline extended, many of the roles were filled through. local recruitment efforts. This is just not an acceptable development with an employer. Jennifer Wilson is with the Global Humanitarian Organization Refuge Point. She acknowledges processing times have created uncertainty.

The federal government initially pledged to push these applications through within six months. It's now at a year and a half. Wilson says Northwood rescinded 18 job offers and many of the candidates were in the very late stages of what was a difficult program. Literally, they needed housing to be secured and they could get on a plane and they could go. More than 1,200 people have come to Canada this way, entering through all provinces except Quebec and in a range of fields. The federal government has now temporarily paused the program because of the volume of applications.

I don't hate Canada. Through it all, Shaori is still hopeful. I can be proud to come in Canada if I get that chance. A chance to start a new life and build a career helping Canadians. Kayla Hounsel, CBC News, Halifax. You're listening to Your World Tonight from CBC News. And if you want to make sure you never miss one of our episodes, follow us on Spotify, Apple, wherever you get your podcasts.

Just find the follow button and lock us in. Canadians love to talk about the weather, but may not love this. Scientists say El Nino, the Pacific warming trend, will be back this year. And if you add that pattern to an already warming planet, well, they're worried about the possibility of even worse weather extremes, which they're calling a super El Nino. Nick Logan has more.

If an El Nino develops... Climate scientists like Freddie Otto at Imperial College London are already concerned about an El Nino forming this year. Now they're watching to see whether a super-Elnino event could supercharge extreme weather. There's a serious risk that the effect of climate change and El Nino on a extreme weather will result in unprecedented weather extremes. They would not have been observed in similar historical El Nino events. In its latest advisory, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA,

says there is an 82% chance of an El Nino forming between now and July, and a 96% chance it will still be around from December to February. El Nino is a natural phenomenon that occurs every few years. when the water temperature in the Pacific Ocean along the equator between South America and Australia rises by at least half a degree above the long-term average. But this year, climate models suggest it could heat up by at least 2 degrees Celsius or even higher. That's what would make it a super el Niño. It could cause significant rainstorms in flooding in some parts of the world, drought in others.

Here at home, The biggest effects in Canada occurred during the winter, and they are profound. I mean, they're really profound. Kent Moore is a professor of atmospheric physics at the University of Toronto, and he says it's likely parts of Canada will experience a much warmer winter. That's what happened in 2023 and early 2024 during the last El Nino. It was Canada's warmest winter on record. And this year is already forecast to be among the all-time hottest globally.

But because of when it's forming, the Super El Nino likely won't have an effect on this year's wildfire season in Canada. Tonight, a fast-moving wildfire forces residents to flee in northern Alberta, which is already underway. That's only for Canada. For instance, next year, Australia will probably have a really bad wildfire season during their summer, which, of course, is our winter. We'll see probably, you know, heatways through the Indian subcontinent. But scientists say that it's not El Nino, even a super El Nino, that poses the biggest threat. Climate change is the reason to freak out. Freddie Otto and many other scientists agree.

Climate change on the contrast gets worse and worse and worse as long as we do not stop burning fossil fuels. And they worry a super El Nino could throw extra fuel on the fire. Nick Logan, CBC News, Vancouver. Finally, Shakira has just released the official song for this year's FIFA World Cup tournament. It's called Dai Dai, which means come on, come on, or go-go in Italian. And fitting for a tournament hosted by Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, she also tosses French, English, and Spanish into the mix.

Shakira performs Dai-Dai, along with Nigerian star Burnaboy. She will also headline the first ever Cup final halftime show that also features Madonna and BTS. I mean, it makes sense. Shakira is basically the voice of the World Cup. She's the first Latin artist to have four songs associated with it, including the huge hit official song from the 2010 tournament. A lot has changed in the world since 2010, but Shakira and World's World. World Cup organizers hope beautiful music and the beautiful game will still get fans on their feet.

We'll find out when the tournament kicks off just four weeks from now. Here's a bit more of Die Die on Your World Tonight for Thursday, May 14th. I'm Stephanie Skanderas. Good night. For more CBC podcasts, go to cbc.ca.ca.com.