The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/25 at 15:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 25, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/25 at 15:00 EDT

This week on Commotion, we are finally doing it. We are talking about Bad Bunny's historic residency in Puerto Rico. Like, is it a rare example of fame doing good for the small island? Or might it supercharged the very tourism that his music is warning about? Join me, Alameen Abdul Mahmood in my podcast where I talked to some of the smartest culture critics that I know about how Bad Bunny is rewriting the rules of touring and other big culture stories from this week. You can find and follow Commotion on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour.

I'm Kate McGilfrey. The federal government is making major changes to Canada Post in a bid to stop a flood of red ink that's costing millions of dollars a day. But it also says the Postal Service must still deliver to all households everywhere in Canada. David Thurton has some of the details. At present, the corporation is losing $10 million every day. Canada Post is effectively insolvent, and it is faithful. Facing an existential crisis.

Joe Lightbound is the Minister overseeing Canada Post. Today he announced changes to the national mail carrier to stabilize its finances. Non-urgent mail can now move by ground instead of air. Ottawa will also allow the corporation to end door-to-door delivery service for 4 million households and roll out more community mail boxes. Canada Post can also close post offices in places that were once considered rural but are now urban or suburb. Bourbon. Taken together, these measures will help stabilize Canada Post's financial situation by generating close to half a billion dollars per year. He also urged management and the Postal

Union to work toward a sustainable future. David Thornton, CBC News, Ottawa. Drivers in Ontario will no longer have to watch out for speed cameras. Premier Doug Ford says his government will ban the devices and encourage municipalities to use other traffic calming measures. Colin Butler has more. At a time when life is getting more expensive, Premier Doug Ford says Ontario will outlaw speed cameras, calling them ineffective and the fines they generate nothing more than a cash grab. When you're issuing 65,000 tickets in three months, that's not slowing people down. A parade of mayors stood shoulder to shoulder with Ford today. Vaughn Mayor Stephen Del Ducca says the tickets create a fine line between paying fines and putting food on the table.

This was an individual father who was struggling to pay for the groceries and was nearly in tears. He just didn't understand how he was going to make ends meet. But what happens when the cameras go dark? We need only look to Alberta. They made a similar move, and police there reported a spike in crashes and a rise in deaths. In Ontario, the province says it's giving drivers a break from tickets, a financial win that could come at a deadly cost. Colin Butler, CBC News, London, Ontario.

who killed convicted serial killer Robert Picton says he did it for Picton's victims. Maltin Charray has pleaded guilty to murdering Picton with a broken broom handle last year. Charray was an inmate at the same prison in Quebec. Piquton was convicted of six counts of second-degree murder, but he had confessed to killing a total of 49 women on his pig farm near Vancouver. The president of the Palestinian Authority is urging more nations to recognize Palestinian statehood. Mahmoud Abbas says solidarity with the Palestinian cause should not be confused with anti-Semitism. He spoke to the UN General Assembly via a video link after he was denied a visa by the U.S.

Abbas thanked Canada and a number of other nations for recognizing a Palestinian state in recent days, and he insists the October 7th attacks do not represent Palestinians. His address comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives in New York, ahead of his U.N. speech tomorrow. What he did is the very definition of terrorism. Officials say the gunmen suspected of attacking an immigration enforcement facility in Dallas, Texas, expressed hate for ICE agents and for the federal government. One detainee was killed and two others were injured in yesterday's attack.

The gunmen died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Acting U.S. attorney for Northern Texas, Nancy Larson, says, Police found notes in the suspect's home. He called the ICE employees people showing up to collect a dirty paycheck. He wrote that he intended to maximize lethality against ICE personnel. Larson says evidence suggests he acted alone. No ICE agents were harmed in this attack. And that is Your World This Hour.

Head to our website for the newest headlines anytime, cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Kate. Guilfrey.