The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/03 at 02:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/03 at 02:00 EDT

Too many students are packed into overcrowded classrooms in Ontario schools, and it's hurting their ability to learn. But instead of helping our kids, the Ford government is playing politics, taking over school boards and silencing local voices. It shouldn't be this way. Tell the Ford government to get serious about tackling overcrowded classrooms because smaller classes would make a big difference for our kids.

Go to Building Better Schools.ca. A message from the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario. from cbc news the world this hour i'm mike miles a terrifying event on the most important day on the jewish calendar a man went on a rampage outside a synagogue in manchester england leaving two people dead and four others wounded brier stewart with the details police sealed off roads outside of the heaton park hebrew congregation synagogue in manchester after the holy day of yam kippur was violently shattered in an attack that the police have called terrorism. Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Stephen Watson. Armed officers from Greater Manchester Police intercepted the offender

and he was fatally shot. Police arrested three people on suspicion of preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism. The police also announced that officers would be deployed to synagogues in Jewish schools across the UK where security is already heightened. Since the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, and Israel's ensuing war in Gaza, there's been a disturbing rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the UK. More than 1,500 were reported in the first half of this year. Breyer Stewart, CBC News, London. With a potential Gaza ceasefire deal on the line, the White House says the U.S. President needs to hear from Hamas soon. Spokesperson Carolyn Levitt says Donald Trump gave the militant group a four-day deadline to accept his plan. It's a red line that the president of

United States is going to have to draw, and I'm confident that he will. This is an acceptable plan, and we hope and we expect Hamas should accept this plan so we can move forward with a more peaceful and prosperous Middle East. Hamas is reportedly still reviewing the plan. It calls for the group to disarm and return the remaining hostages held for nearly two years. In return, Israel would release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and end the fighting in Gaza. Israel has already accepted the agreement. U.S. President Donald Trump says if government workers get fired, it's the Democrats' fault. And in an interview with Trump-friendly Network, you won 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 energy initiative in Democratic states. Seven and a half billion dollars in funding was stopped. The Trump administration says the projects don't line up with energy needs. Liberal MP Marie-France Lalonde wants to put an end to spring forward fall back.

That's why today I'm very excited to share that I intend to present a private member's bill aim at addressing the outdated practice of the biannual time change. Studies show that one hour. change disrupts circadian rhythms that regulate things like sleep, mood, and appetite, the disruption in some cases leading to car crashes. Simon Fraser University study has found Coho salmon populations in BC are on the decline. With drought, marine heat waves, and harvesting threatening the fish. John Hernandez reports. 2025 might be a strong year for Socki and Pink Salmon returns, but researchers born Coho are

facing serious challenges. An SFU study. found coho populations in rivers along the central and north coast are down by more than a third since 2017 when compared to long-term averages. Kyle Wilson is one of the lead researchers. That was alarming because some of those rivers that are in the central coast, they're changing a lot due to climate change. Wilson says marine heat waves, droughts and harvesting are behind the decline. Coho support commercial, recreational, and indigenous fisheries throughout the region. Wilson says historically the fish have rebounded when fisheries were closed. It might mean that we have to harvest and catch fewer coho.

Wilson says coho salmon also face increased competition for food from pink salmon, whose numbers are at an all-time high in the North Pacific Ocean. John Hernandez, CBC News, Vancouver. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles. Thank you.