The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/29 at 20:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 30, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/29 at 20:00 EDT

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A message from the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Stephanie Skanderas. Israel's prime minister says he accepts an American peace plan aimed at ending the war in Gaza. Benjamin Antinjahou met with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House to go over the proposal. The conditions include a gradual withdrawal of the Israeli military from Gaza and the immediate return of hostages. It says a temporary transitional government will be formed by Palestinians and international. national experts with no involvement from Hamas. Netanyahu had this warning for the militant group. We're giving everybody a chance to have this done peacefully. But if Hamas rejects

your plan, Mr. President, then Israel will finish the job by itself. Hamas has yet to respond to the deal. The document says any members who lay down arms and commit to peaceful coexistence will be given amnesty. Canada has now formally listed the India-based Bishnoi gang, a terrorist entity. The designation bars Canadians from financing or aiding the group, which is led by Lawrence Bishnoi. It's believed he's still running the criminal organization despite being in prison since 2014. Last year, the RCMP accused the Indian government of using the Bishnoi gang to carry out acts of violence targeting Canadians who support sick separatism. The biggest steel producer in Canada is getting a half a billion dollar lifeline to weather the tariff war with the U.S.

Algoma Steel has secured a $400 million loan from Ottawa and another $100 million from Ontario. The company says it'll help transform the steel industry in this country. Peter Armstrong reports. Canada's steel industry is one of a handful that's caught in the crosshairs of U.S. President Donald Trump's efforts to upend the global trading order. Decades, producers across North America shared products and competed for customers. Mike Garcia, CEO of Algoma Steel, and Sue St. Marie says those days are over. Algoma must pivot its business model to a domestic-focused business model. Historically, 60% of our volume has been in the United States, but that's now unviable.

Most of what is sold in the U.S. is coiled steel, but Canada imports all of the structural beams it uses to build just about everything. So Garcia says the government loans will help it shift production away from those coils, once sold in the U.S., toward beans that will be the backbone of new construction in Canada. Peter Armstrong, CBC News, Toronto. The Saskatchewan government has apologized to survivors of the Isle-Lacross Residential School. It's located about 460 kilometers north of Saskatoon. Premier Scott Moe traveled to the village to make.

make the announcement. This agreement is made in the spirit of building a positive relationship and promoting reconciliation for the historical injustices and challenges that have been faced by any, all too many, many, Métis and indigenous people in our province of Saskatchew. The province agreed to pay more than $40 million in restitution to former students and their families. Isle Lacrosse predates the federal residential school system and because of was not included in the settlement agreement of 2006. Survivors sued both the province and Ottawa for recognition. The federal government agreed to pay $27 million earlier this year.

Police are searching the House of the suspected gunman in yesterday's mass shooting and arson at a church in Michigan. At least four people were killed, eight others injured, at a Mormon chapel in Grand Blank Township. Worshipper, Brant Malone, says seeing the building this morning feels like a lifetime of memories is gone. The hardest thing for our community right now is feeling like that security blanket has been ripped away.

You know, you never want people who are attending these churches to ever feel that way. And so it's hard. And there's a lot of raw motions right now. The suspect died in a shootout with police. Authorities confirm he's a 40-year-old war veteran from Michigan who served in Iraq. A motive is still unclear.

And that's your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Stephanie Scandaris. Thank you.