The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/01 at 13:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 1, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/01 at 13:00 EDT

The spirit of innovation is deeply ingrained in Canada, and Google is helping Canadians innovate in ways both big and small, from mapping accessible spaces so the disabled community can explore with confidence, to unlocking billions in domestic tourism revenue. Thousands of Canadian companies are innovating with Google AI. Innovation is Canada's story. Let's tell it together. Find out more at g.co slash Canadian Innovation. from cbc news the world this hour i'm kate mcgilvry cbc news has learned that ontario's marine land may be on the verge of bankruptcy

this comes just as the federal government vetoed the amusement parks plan to send its belugas overseas thomas d'agla has the latest i'm an animal lover and it's just a sad situation Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he's disappointed with the federal government's decision about the future of marine land's whales. Ottawa has now denied the Niagara Falls theme park's request for a permit to export 30 belugas to a similar venue in China. If we want these whales to survive, we have to move them somewhere. Marine land did not reopen for this year and began selling off its amusement rides. Now a source tells CBC News, the theme park is on the brink of filing for bankruptcy. Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson says she quashed marine lands plan after seeing the belugas up close.

It was obvious to me that whales belong in the ocean. Thompson says if the belugas had been sent to China, it would have meant a continued life in captivity for them. Whether the whales will be euthanized or moved elsewhere is not yet clear. Thomas Dagg, CBC News, Toronto. We found that the Ministry of Labor, Immigration, Training and Skills Development's processes for the selection, of applications was not fair, transparent, or accountable. Ontario Auditor General Shelley Spence says her office found discrepancies in how the province picked applications for a $2.5 billion federal fund.

The Skills Development Fund Training Program aims to support the hiring, training, and upskilling of workers. Spence says more than half of all applications approved by the province were ranked poor, low, or medium against the program criteria, while the Labor Ministry rejected hundreds of applications rated much higher. Spence says taxpayers would have gotten better value for money if more of the higher-ranked projects were picked. One person was killed and two people injured in a shooting near a Starbucks in LaValle, Quebec. Quebec's public security minister, Ian LaFranier, says the shooting bears the hallmarks of organized crime.

And in his words, there were no innocent victims. Three sources have confirmed to Radio Canada, the deceased, Haralambos Theologu, the 40-year-old, was a major organized crime figure in Quebec. A frantic search and rescue operation is underway in the Philippines after a deadly earthquake there. At least 69 people were killed and dozens more injured when a 6.9 magnitude quake rocked Cebu province. Officials there have now declared a state of calamity. Mandy Sham reports. Sorrow and desperation in Bogo, the city closest to the city closest to the city.

the epicenter of the quake. With each passing hour, rescuers retrieve more bodies from collapsed buildings. Thousands of residents are camped out on the streets. Resident Marco Cheya says he's anxious because there are still tremors, so many that he's lost count. The National Bureau monitoring seismic activity has recorded roughly 900 aftershocks since Tuesday's earthquake. More except, Mary E. Ram is a reporter at Cebu Daily News. She tells Ceele, CBC, heavy rains are complicating relief efforts. It's just a double whammy for the victims right now. And it's really, really heartbreaking to go there.

Officials have set up mobile kitchens and tent hospitals to meet the urgent need as Sibu prepares for yet another long and weary night. Mandy Shem, CBC News, Toronto. And an annual contest to crown the fattest bear in an Alaska National Park has announced its winner. Anyone could cast a vote online using live cameras stationed in Catmine National Park to get to know the contestants. You could also check out photos of the frontrunners this summer when they were at their slimmest, and this fall, after a record-breaking feed on salmon.

In the end, it was Chunk, a 1,200-pound brown bear who was crowned fattest bear, and he did it all with a broken jaw, likely sustained during a fight with another male bear over a female. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilver.