The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/27 at 21:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/27 at 21:00 EDT

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A message from the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario. From CBC News, The Worldless Hour, I'm Mike Miles. Prime Minister Mark Carney is weighing in on Canada Post future as its workers take to the picket lines for the second time in less than a year. 55,000 unionized workers walked off the job this week after Ottawa greenlit major changes at the Crown Corporation, including closing post offices and ending home delivery. Philip Lee Shanlock is more.

In London, Prime Minister Mark Carney painted a picture of a broke corporation. with a broken business model. A company is not viable if it has cost $5 billion over the course of the last decade, if it's losing $10 million a day. Carney said government restrictions needed to be dropped so Canada Post can make needed reforms to its operations. That could put an end to a promise to protect door-to-door delivery made by former Liberal Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, in 2015.

Wycliffe O'Dore of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, as the government is favoring the corporation. Instead of being one would speak on behalf of the government in support of workers and workers' rights. Postal workers remain on strike. Canada Post now has 45 days to come up with a modernization plan, and it says it wants the union to have a say in its new strategy through renewed contract negotiations.

Philip Lichanok, CBC News, Toronto. The search continues for a six-year-old boy last seen near his family's campsite in Southern El. Alberta last Sunday. Darius McDougal went missing while walking with several younger relatives. Alex Kennedy of Alberta Search and Rescue says the search was expanded today. Approximately 225 personnel are on scene, including 128 SAR volunteers from Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan. Search dogs, a helicopter and drones with infrared cameras continue to be used. Police say private drones are not allowed to fly in the area.

Darius has autism and is nonverbal forcing searchers to address. adapt their techniques. Obviously, long research lasts, the probability of favorable outcome does decrease, but as off today, the search effort is reflecting the assumption that Darius is alive. Kennedy says it's been warm enough and there's a lot of water sources in the area, improving Darius's chances of survival. Mass shooter who targeted the New York offices of the National Football League was suffering from CTE, a degenerative brain condition linked to repeated head at dramas like those suffered by football players. Steve Futterman has more. He was focused on the NFL. Shane Tamura walked inside the building housing the NFL and opened fire, killed four people, and then himself.

He left a note accusing the league of trying to hide the dangers of head trauma. His note ended with the words, steady my brain, please. The coroner found unambiguous diagnostic evidence that Tamora suffered from CTE. It's a form of brain damage linked to repeated head. trauma that can cause mood problems, behavioral changes, and eventually dementia. Although Tamora never played college football, he did play in high school. Chris Nguinsky is the co-founder of the Concussion Legacy Foundation. If you start at six, you play through high school, no researcher is now surprised to find somebody who played that long having CTE. After long denying a link, the NFL has paid $1.4 billion in CTE claims from retired players. Steve Futterman

CBC News, Los Angeles. Canada fell to England today in the Women's Rugby World Cup final, losing 1333 to the top-ranked team. Canada was looking for its first ever title after losing to England in the 2014 final. A bright spot, though, Canada's star player Sophie de Goody has been named World Rugby Player of the year. In Spain, refugees welcome! Tourists go home! Refugees welcome! Protesters chant and squirt water pistols at tourists in one of Barcelona's most iconic parks. It's the latest in a series of protests against over tourism in major European cities. Protesters say throngs of visitors drive up housing prices and crowd locals out of their own neighborhoods.

The demonstration was time to mark the UN's World Tourism Day. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles. Thank you.