The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/02 at 05:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 2, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/02 at 05:00 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 mike miles the federal government's trying to breathe life back into

canada's military and its industrial base for years canada has simply gone out and bought its equipment mostly from the americans but analysts and former federal officials say the country needs to do its own defense production the cbc's murray brewster explains wendy gilmore is a canadian and a former senior NATO official. She says politicians, officials, and the public in Canada need to understand there's a difference between defense procurement and defense production. I think that Canada is still looking at, yes, we want a military, but we think a deterrent mindset that we're going to do just enough to prevent our having to actually use it, which is a great goal, but perhaps not realistic in today's environment. In announcing the rearmament of the Canadian military, Prime Minister

Mark Carney promised to create a new defense investment agency. Jordan Miller, an analyst and executive says the fine print of that agency will be very important. Miller says the current go-to-the-market approach won't work in a crisis. The idea that we can just buy and that's the end of it, I think, is quite short-sighted. Miller says the last time Canada did defense production on a massive scale was during the Korean War. Murray Brewster, CBC News, Ottawa. Israel's foreign ministry says it is bringing those aboard seized flotilla boats to Israel, where they will begin deportation proceedings. Climate activist Greta Toonberg was among those on board.

The flotilla says it was bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza, but Israel says they were going to provoke unrest. Opponents to a federal gun buyback program will be rallying in Sydney's Nova Scotia today. The pilot project launched in Cape Breton this week. It aims to buy prohibited assault and sell weapons from gun owners. Tom Ayers with more. Anna Manley is a lawyer in Sydney who ran unsuccessfully for the federal conservatives in the last election.

She's one of the organizers. Manley says it'll be a peaceful protest for those who believe the gun ban and buyback program are a waste of money. I don't think that you can just call something assault style, convince the public that it's scary, and then not expect any pushback. Manley says some of the banned guns

are small caliber hunting rifles and banning them will not reduce crime. Talal Dakalbab is with federal public safety. He says polling shows most people, including gun owners, ban and buyback program. Some people have already returned their guns, by the way, without compensation, for example, to police because they didn't want to have a prohibited gun at home. Cape Breton Police Chief Robert Walsh says the buyback program opened Wednesday morning,

and gun owners have started looking to cash in their prohibited weapons. There are people that are interested in participating when they have already contacted us to make arrangements to dispose of their firearms. Tom Ayers, CBC News, Sydney. An out-of-control wildfire northwest of Halifax has forced the evacuation of hundreds of homes and cottages. The Lake George Wildfire comes on the heels of another nearby blaze that destroyed 20 homes as Nova Scotia extends its official wildfire season amid unrelenting dry conditions.

Nicholas Sagan reports. School memories of my children, so I just stuffed it all in my Jeep. It's ready to go. Akalaynar watches water bombers swooping down again and again to reload in the lake near her home in Nova Scotia's King's County. She hasn't yet been ordered to evacuate, but she knows at any time she could be joining the dozens of others

who have been forced to leave their homes fleeing the Lake George Wildfire. Her bags are all packed. That's the way I reduce my stress by sort of preparing. The wildfire, believed to have been human-caused, covers 290 hectares, almost doubling since Tuesday

with more than 350 homes and cottages in the mandatory evacuation zone. As dozens of firefighters, water bombers, and heavy equipment try to push the fire back, residents hope the weather changes before it's too late. Nicholas Sagan, CBC News, Halifax. And that is the world this hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts. We update every hour, seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles.

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