The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/02 at 07:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 2, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/02 at 07:00 EDT

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Go to Building Better Schools.ca. A message from the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario. from cbc news it's the world this hour i'm joe cummings it was a big part of mark carney's election campaign a promise to establish an agency to help coordinate the production and delivery of canadian military equipment and today the defense investment agency is being rolled out murray brewster has more jordan miller an analyst and executive says the fine print of that agency will be very important. What's needed, he says, is an organization that can decide what to prioritize in terms of defense

production. In other words, what Canadians should be building themselves in order to protect their sovereignty. 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. Lately, it has experimented with the national shipbuilding strategy, constructing Arctic warships and now destroyers. But that program has been plagued with cost overruns and delays. Marie Brewster, CBC News, Ottawa. Senior European leaders are meeting today in Copenhagen with Russia dominating the agenda.

Meta Fredrickson is the Prime Minister of Denmark. I think everybody underestimated how big a threat Russia action 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. Denmark and Poland have both been seeing drone activity in recent weeks that they say appears to be Russian. Fredericton says Europe needs to arm itself for a high. hybrid war, one that combines drone and cyber technology.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is scheduled to address this leader's summit at some point today. The Israeli military is in the process of intercepting the boats sailing with the global Samud Flotilla. The flotilla is attempting to deliver aid to Gaza, but the boats are being stopped, with those aboard being taken to Israel for deportation. Sasha Petrissik reports. A 160 kilometers from Gaza's coast, a boatload of heavily armed Israeli troops board the sailboat all in. Its crew and passengers, activists, are detained at gunpoint. The scene has been repeated all night. I am concerned with my safety.

Canadian Zahirah Sumar watches from a nearby ship, which keeps sailing. The global Samud flotilla still trying to deliver aid to Gaza. and to pierce Israel's blockade. We have 40 plus boats, and we're hoping that maybe some make it to the shores of Gaza, we don't know. From Rome to Buenos Aires, Tunis to Istanbul, pro-Palestinian protesters support the flotilla and denounce the war. Sasha Petrusik, CBC News, Jerusalem. A new study has found the online voting in the 2022 Ontario municipal elections was wide open to fraud. Researchers at three universities found flaws in the logistics and technology left 70% of the municipal races at high risk.

Colin Butler explains. 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, 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. And that is the world this hour.