The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/02 at 23:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/02 at 23:00 EDT

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Alberta is reporting the first death in its measles outbreak. A newborn baby has died, and critics are doubling down on calls for the province to do more to curb the virus. Sam Sampson reports. Officials say the baby died shortly after it was born, after contracting measles while in the womb. Alberta's health minister sent condolences to the family and added anyone planning a pregnancy should have two doses. of measles vaccine prior to conception. Since the measles outbreak began in the spring, many physicians and scientists have pressed Alberta officials

to do more to address the virus, including special vaccine clinics and stronger outreach. Alberta NDP health critic Sarah Hoffman added to that criticism. I'm blaming the government for allowing things to get as bad as they are and for the outbreak to have been as terrible as it is. And Lenora Sackinger, an infectious diseases specialist at the University of Alberta, says disinformation about measles vaccines has to be addressed. This risk to babies can be contained if we actually look at, you know, the true science

and the true data around the safety and the effectiveness of these vaccines. Alberta has the second highest number of measles cases so far this year. Sam Sampson, CBC News, Edmonton. British police say the man suspected in a deadly attack at a synagogue was a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian descent. Jihad al-Shamee was shot and killed by officers. in Manchester. He's alleged to have killed two people and sent four others to hospital in a car ramming and stabbing attack on Yom Kippur. Three others were also arrested on suspicion of the

commission, preparation, and instigation of acts of terrorism. It's a stark contrast to the urgency and pace of the battlefield, the often slow and inefficient process of acquiring and delivering the equipment Canadian soldiers need. Now a new federal agency will try to speed things up by changing how the military procures equipment and where it comes from. Tom Perry has more. Many governments have talked about it and over the last couple months I've realized why it never got done because it was very, very difficult to do. Stephen Fuhr, Secretary of State for Defense Procure announcing Ottawa's new Defense Investment Agency. Its job will be to streamline military procurement while trying to move the military away from U.S. suppliers and put more emphasis

on purchasing from European and other allies, or ideally buying Canadian. But conservative defense critic James Bazan doesn't see much good in the liberal plan. Creating another level of bureaucracy and red tape will do nothing to actually improve the procurement that our troops need desperately to get the killed. With Canada pledging to dramatically boost defense spending across the board, the question is, can this government succeed where others have failed and finally speed things up? Tom Perry, CBC News, Ottawa. There will be dueling bills in Parliament this session on bail reform.

Conservative leader Pierre Pollyoff says one of his MPs will introduce a private member's bill, repealing changes to the bail room's rules, rather, adopted by the Trudeau government. We don't need the liberals to do anything. We just need them to get out of the way. If they will abstain on this vote and agree to let this bill pass, we can scrap liberal bail. They've had six months since the last election. And here we are a half a year later, and they haven't even introduced a bill. Full Liberals have already said they'll be introducing a bill reform bill of their own this fall.

Private members' bills are rarely passed by Parliament. U.S. President Donald Trump says if government workers get fired, it's the Democrats' fault. And in an interview with Trump-friendly Network One America News, he suggested more cuts are coming. We could cut projects that they wanted, favorite projects, and they'd be permanently cut. So you could say a lot of people are saying, Trump wanted this, that I wanted this closing, and I didn't want it. But a lot of people are saying it because I'm allowed to cut things that should have never been approved in the first place. And I will probably do that. One program is a clean and energy initiative.

Seven and a half billion dollars in funding was stopped. The Trump administration says the projects don't line up with America's energy needs. That is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles. Thank you.