The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/25 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 25, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/25 at 12:00 EDT

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Public Works Minister Joel Lightbound is releasing a series of measures to address the financial challenges currently facing the Crown Corporation. As for the union representing Canada Post workers, it says it has not been briefed on today's announcement. Still in Ottawa, the Parliamentary Budget Office is predicting the federal deficit will top $68 billion this year. That would be up from $51 billion last year. The PBO says weaker than expected economic growth is a major factor, along with other trade-related measures that are impacting both revenues and expenses. The estimate comes ahead of the Carney government's fall budget, which will be tabled November 4th.

Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, says there can be no justice if Palestine is not free. From earlier today, that's Abbas addressing the UN General Assembly and renewing his call for an independent Palestinian state. He says Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are facing a war of genocide, destruction, starvation, and displacement at the hands of the Israeli government. Abbas also says his people reject the Hamas attacks of October 7th and says the militant group will have no future role in governing Gaza. Abbas gave his speech by a video link today after being refused a visa by the United States. Former French President Nikola Sarkozy has been sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of criminal conspiracy. Sarkozy and his wife entering a Paris courthouse earlier today. The court has found that, leading up to his successful 2007 presidential bid,

Sarkozy illegally accepted millions of euros in financing from the late Libyan dictator Momar Gaddafi. So Karz, who served five years as French president, has also denied any wrongdoing and says he will be a little bit. appealing. The Ontario government says it will table legislation next month that bans speed enforcement cameras across the province. Because enough is enough. In a few weeks, our government will introduce legislation to ban speed cameras in Ontario to protect taxpayers and drivers and stop them from being gouged. This despite a plea from the Association of Ontario municipalities to keep the cameras, A recent study by the hospital for sick children found traffic cameras significantly reduced speeding.

Ford says that instead of the cameras, the province will be providing funding for communities to install other traffic slowing measures like speed bumps. A study published in the Lancet Medical Journal is warning that due to an aging population, cancer cases and cancer deaths around the world will increase dramatically over the next 25 years. And as Jennifer Yunn reports, researchers and doctors are saying health care systems need to start preparing. I think we're already feeling a bit of strain. Cancer specialist Dr. Keith Stewart has started to wonder, do we have enough chairs for people to come in to receive their chemotherapy? Beds for those receiving treatments like car T cell therapy.

That strain may be getting worse in coming years. According to a new study published in the Lancet Medical Journal by 2050, Cancer rates and deaths are expected to balloon by the millions around the world. And while Canada is doing well compared to other countries, an Asian population will mean more people getting diagnosed with cancer and more people dying with cancer across Canada. Stuart, the director of Toronto's Princess Margaret Cancer Program, says authorities should start preparing now. We need to do better with our efficiency, getting people out of the hostel and doing that efficiently.

Preparations like that could mean Fewer Canadians die, Stuart says. Jennifer Yun, CBC News, Toronto. And that is the world this hour. For news anytime, go to our website, cbcnews.ca.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.