The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/02 at 04:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 2, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/02 at 04:00 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. Several first nations in Western Canada are already opposing the Alberta government's plan to build a new oil pipeline to the BC coast, and that no amount of influence from any government can change that. Still, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she's willing to spend $14 million to get that pipeline built. Polosa Hatchettuck reports. And so we've got to do something to break the logjam. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith blames federal environmental policy

for the fact that no private company has stepped up to build a new oil pipeline. We'll work with the federal government to clear away some of those barriers. Alex Porbe, executive chair of Cinovus Energy, says the province is making a smart move. This is truly a nation-building kind of a project. Others disagree. One of the policies Smith wants repealed is the so-called tanker ban. BC Premier David Eby says getting rid of the policy could erode support for other types of major projects. The challenge that I have is that this proposal from the Alberta Premier for taxpayers to do this work

comes at the expense of real private sector projects. Premier Danielle Smith pledged taxpayers won't be on the hook for the project itself and plans to submit a proposal to the major projects office next spring. Paula Duhatch, CBC News, Calgary. Vessels in a flotilla originally headed to Gaza are going to Israel instead. That's audio from one of those boats as it was being boarded by the Israeli Navy. Several arrests were made, including activists Great a Toonberg. Israel says all are safe and that once they land deportation proceedings will get underway.

The flotillas organizers says they were trying to get around Israel's naval blockade to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, but Israel says some of those organizers have ties to Hamas. Denmark's prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, says Europe is now in a hybrid war. I think everybody underestimated how big a threat Russia actually is. Not saying that we haven't done anything because we are doing a lot. And my hope is that everybody will recognize that we have to look at Ukraine as the first line of defense. So everything we do in Ukraine is defending ourselves and the rest of Europe. Fredrickson says the continent needs to arm itself. She and other European leaders are meeting in Copenhagen.

Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelensky will join them. With Ontario's municipal elections about a year away, a new study warns, the province's online vote in 2022 was wide open to attack. Researchers at three universities found flaws in logistics and technology left 70% of municipal races at high risk. As Colin Butler reports, the real shock was the security of millions of votes rested on whether people treated a government password like another piece of junk mail. They were concerned that all these credentials are ending up in the recycling. That's Carlton University's James Brunet. He says a senior bureaucrat pulled the researchers aside and told them about a post office in rural Ontario. There, people were taking voter information letters with pins and instructions and tossing them into the recycling bin.

Someone else could go into that recycling bin, use those credentials. to vote on behalf of another person. In some Ontario municipalities, a pin is all you need to cast an online ballot. The other flaw was in the computer code itself. Someone could mask the real ballot with a phantom layer so your click picks the wrong candidate. Elections Ontario says it has no authority over civic elections.

Municipal Affairs Minister Rob Flack's office didn't respond. That leaves Ontario with a patchwork system vulnerable to simple mistakes and low-level hacks where democracy is only as safe as the mail we throw away. Colin Butler, CBC News, London, Ontario. Christmas has come early in Venezuela. That celebration Wednesday night, President Nicola Maduro, decreed it to be the season of joy,

possibly to distract from the increased U.S. military activity offshore and stepped up troop deployments along land borders. That is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles. Thank you.