The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/02 at 09:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 2, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/02 at 09:00 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 it's the world this hour i'm joe cummings two people are dead and three are injured following an attack today on a synagogue in manchester england

they say a vehicle was driven into a crowd outside the synagogue with the driver then attacking people with a knife Crystal Gamansing reports. Well, we know that Greater Manchester police say that this was a vehicle and knife attack at the Heaton Park Synagogue. This is a synagogue located in Krumsall. It's a suburb of northern Manchester. Now, police say there were a number of people in the synagogue at the time because it is Yom Kippur. Now, the suspect believed to have been shot and killed by police, but they have not officially confirmed that because they say there are suspicious items

near the body and they are waiting to make sure the area is safe before they offer any sort of confirmation. UK Prime Minister Kirstarmer has called the attack absolutely shocking. I'm already able to say that additional police assets are being deployed to synagogues across the country and we will do everything to keep our Jewish community safe. King Charles and Queen Camilla have also released a statement saying that their thoughts and prayers are with those affected by this a polling incident. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, London. 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. Murray Brewster, CBC News, Ottawa. The Trump administration is threatening to carry out mass job cuts across the federal public service. The threats come on the second day of the U.S. government shutdown. Willie Lowry reports from Washington. The Trump administration has been pretty adamant.

It wants to use this shutdown as an opportunity to cut what it perceives as government. government waste. And that very well may mean laying people off. President Donald Trump on social media said, quote, Republicans must use this opportunity of Democrat forced closure to clear out dead wood, waste, and fraud. Billions of dollars can be saved. Now White House press secretary Caroline Levitt echoing the president's comments. Unfortunately, because the Democrat shut down the government, the president has directed his cabinet and the Office of Management and Budget is working with agencies across the board to identify where cuts can be made. And we believe that layoffs are imminent. And this all comes after a tumultuous year for federal employees. The Trump

administration has already laid off tens of thousands of workers as part of the Department of Government Efficiency's efforts to reduce spending. Willie Lowry, CBC News, Washington. 75 years ago today, one of the most popular comic strips of all time made its debut. The Peanuts gang, Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, and Lucy made their first appearance in seven American newspapers on October 2, 1950. By the time creator Charles Schultz died 50 years later, the strip was appearing daily in more than 2,000 papers in 75 countries. Schultz wrote, drew, and colored every strip, and at the height of its popularity, merchandise and product endorsements were generating upwards to a billion-staffirms. a year in revenue.

And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.