The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/28 at 04:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/28 at 04:00 EDT

Too many students are packed into overcrowded classrooms in Ontario schools, and it's hurting their ability to learn. But instead of helping our kids, the Ford government is playing politics, taking over school boards and silencing local voices. It shouldn't be this way. Tell the Ford government to get serious about tackling overcrowded classrooms because smaller classes would make a big difference for our kids.

Go to Building Better Schools.ca. A message from the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario. From CBC News, The Worldless Hour, I'm Mike Miles. Small businesses are scrambling to find alternate ways to ship and receive goods as Canada Post workers go on strike for the second time in less than a year. As Philoply, Schenock reports, they're also pricing for the potential loss of door-to-door delivery. It would be rarely unfortunate to lose that. Christine Quale is a small business owner in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

She doesn't like Canada Post's plan to do a way. with home delivery. So I get lots of stuff that's delivered to my house. So I got to, you know, go out of my day to go pick up stuff now. On top of that, for the second time in a year, Canada Post workers are off the job. We've called for Canada Post to be temporarily deemed an essential service. Ryan Mitton is with the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. He says members are dealing with the U.S. tariffs and now the uncertainty caused by another postal strike. And although it could lead to the end of door-to-door delivery, he says the CFIB supports Canada Post's modernization efforts. But the CFIB says for many businesses, time is running out. The last postal strike,

just before the critical holiday retail shipping season, cost members a billion dollars in lost sales and increased costs. Volpe Shannock, CBC News, Toronto. Prime Minister Mark Carney returns to Canada today. He's been in the UK since Friday, meeting with world leaders and potential. investors and pitching trade with this country. Carney's looking to raise Canada's profile and lessen this country's economic and security dependence on the U.S. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia lobbed about 500 drones and more than 40 missiles at the country overnight.

Fire crews hosed down hotspots after hundreds of homes, buildings, and vehicles were damaged or destroyed. At least four people were killed. Zolensky's calling on the world to keep up its pressure to get Russia to stop. U.S. President Donald Trump is sending soldiers into another Democrat-run city. This time, it's Portland, Oregon. Calling it war-ravaged, he's authorizing troops to use force if necessary. It follows Trump's – seriously me, it follows protests by Trump what Trump's terming domestic terrorists outside immigration facilities.

Local officials are accusing Trump of misrepresenting the situation. Keith Wilson is Portland's mayor. We do not need any intervention. This is not a military target. The president will not find lawlessness or violence here. I've been so deeply disappointed to see the footage from a half decade ago, recycled and then recycled again. Oregon's governor says the military presence will ramp up fear

and possibly inflamed the situation. American medical misinformation is having impacts more than halfway around the world with senior Australian public health officials blaming it in part for falling childhood vaccination rates. There's been a drop in the number of children receiving vaccinations since the COVID-19 pandemic. From Sydney, Phil Mercer reports. Free childhood immunizations help protect our kids from dangerous diseases. For two decades, Australia's childhood vaccination rates increased every year

before they peeped at 95 percent, the national target. But that trend has reversed since the COVID pandemic. Experts say misinformation from the United States has gone. made it worse. Danielle McMullen is the president of the Australian Medical Association. There's a whole lot of misinformation and fear being circulated on social media. And we know in a cost of living crisis, it's difficult for people to take the time off of work or school to get their vaccines. Some parents and caregivers have questions and concerns. Kasha Bolshevich is from Australia's National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance. But also not always, you know,

have the time during the appointment with the doctor or not feel that they can, ask questions. Film us, sir, for CBC News, Sydney. A new storm is brewing in the Atlantic. Right now, it's called Tropical Depression 9, but overnight it's forecast a build into tropical storm in Melda, developing in the coming days into a hurricane heading to the coast of South Carolina. Neighboring North Carolina is already declaring a state of emergency. That is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles.