The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/26 at 01:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 26, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/26 at 01:00 EDT

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A message from the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Mike Miles. Postal workers are on strike. Their union announced the move just hours after the federal government gave Canada a post the green light to bring in big changes aimed at keeping the struggling Crown Corporation afloat. Kate McKenna takes us through the day. And at present, the corporation is losing $10 million every day. With no money, a labor dispute that's gone on for almost two years,

and a sharp decrease in mail being sent, Canada's public works minister Joelle Lightbound says government had no choice but to act. There are limits to our capacity to bail out Canada Post. To make Canada Post more financially stable, Ottawa is overhauling the way the Crown Corporation can operate, ending door-to-door delivery of mail-to-homes, and shutting down post offices in areas that were once considered rural but are now more developed. Canada Post says it supports this decision, but the union representing workers, came out swinging. In the late afternoon, Cup W said it's on strike, effective immediately. There are already picket lines in Atlantic Canada. Negotiator Jim Gallant broke the news on CBC's power and politics. It is your expectation that Cup W national leadership will call for

everybody to go on the picket lines within the next 24 hours. You're correct in what you just said. Kate McKenna, CBC News, Ottawa. Closing some rural post offices could have a major impact on small businesses that rely on the service. Kyle Moffitt is co-owner of sticks and doodles in Regina. Moffitt says they ship a lot of her personalized gifts and artwork to rural areas. If customers have to travel farther and farther to pick up the mail, it will affect their business. Maybe they won't be ordering as many of large products from us because it's a bit more difficult to pick them up or have them delivered. And so definitely some caution in how we approach that and what changes we're going to have to make as a business.

Moffitt says the other worry is a disruption in deliveries will arrive. road consumer confidence and pushed them towards buying through sites like Amazon instead of locally. Former FBI director James Comey has been indicted on charges of making a full statement and obstruction of justice. U.S. President Donald Trump has been publicly pushing his attorney general to launch a prosecution. That's alarmed many, including former Justice Department attorney Stacey Young. The president said the quiet part out loud. He directed DOJ to pursue his enemies and that's antithetical to the rule of law. Trump's calling the Comey indictment

Justice for America. Comey, though, says he's innocent. He'll reportedly turn himself in Friday morning. Some say they save lives. To others, their cash grab. Speed cameras have been both praised and cursed across Canada. Now they're about to be scrapped

on some of the busiest roads in the country. Philip Lee Shenock has more on Ontario's plan. Enough is enough. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he will introduce legislation to ban speed cameras. Municipalities have seen how easy it is to make a quick buck more and more cameras have been set up across Ontario.

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow says the cameras save lives. Torontoians, especially those most vulnerable, need to be safe. And we know speed camera works. A large-scale study by Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto Metropolitan University found the cameras reduced incidence of speeding by 45%. Average speeds, they say, were reduced by 11 kilometers per hour. It's a patchwork across the country. BC got rid of speed cameras decades ago while Quebec strongly supports them.

Ontario will give municipalities a year to get rid of their cameras and implement alternative traffic calming measures such as speed bumps. Fultes-Shanock, CBC News, Toronto. Manitoba Premier Wab Cano says costs associated with this year's wildfire season amount to roughly $180 million so far. with some invoices still to come. That's more than triple what the province budgeted for all emergencies. Kanoos says cost is not an issue, though. The fire started in May and over the course into the spring and summer, affected wide swath, the northern and eastern Manitoba. The Canadian Red Cross says 32,000 people were registered as evacuees at various times.

That is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles. Thank you.