The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/03 at 17:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/03 at 17:00 EDT

I'm Gavin Crawford, host of Because News, Canada's hilarious weekly news quiz. This week, Chris Siddiqui, Alice Moran, and Queen Priyanka, join me. So sit straight up in your chairs and get ready to find out why you can't recline them, at least on one major Canadian airline. This panel may not know baseball, but they will need to brush up on their strike knowledge to win this week. And there's one chip flavor that's only existed in Canada, but we'll soon head to the U.S. I guess we're doing crunch diplomacy now. We'll play a round of eat it or ate it.

try to figure out if it's a chip flavor or a drag queen. We're serving it all up wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Kate McGilfrey. We begin with breaking news from the Middle East. Hamas says it is ready to release all hostages, alive and dead, under the terms proposed by President Donald Trump. The militant group has released its response to Trump's 20-point plan to end fighting in

Gaza, saying it accepts parts of it. Hamas agrees to hand over administration of Gaza to an independent body of Palestinian technocrats. But it says other parts of the Trump plan still need to be discussed by what it calls a Palestinian national network that includes Hamas. Trump had demanded a de facto capitulation by Hamas by Sunday. The Federal Public Safety Minister wants to know what caused two IT outages at Canada's borders this week. Gary Ananda Sangare is giving the Canada Border Services Agency 30 days to come up with a plan to prevent future blackouts. As Philip Lyshanik tells us, the outage caused chaos at border crossings and airports. Started seeing the signs on the interstate, saying that the Canadian border was closed.

Truck driver Eve Duaron was headed back to New Brunswick, but ended up stranded in New York State. Ended up being stuck on the side of the road for over 30 hours. Canada Border Services Agency says a system outage caused delays in commercial processing, mainly at ports of entry in southern Ontario. I would say the last two to three years, systems failure is on a far more regular basis. Stephen Laskowski is with the Canadian Trucking Association. He says many of the more than 12,000 trucks

across the border per day were idle. It's not like the lights have gone out in your home and you're annoyed. That means trade isn't moving across the border. The CBSA says it will produce a report on what caused the outage and a plan to prevent them in the future. IT issues also hit inspection kiosks at Canadian airports causing delays for passengers across the country. Philip Lyshanock, CBC News, Toronto. Canada Post has presented a new contract offer to the Canadian Union of Postal workers.

It includes a wage increase of just over 13% over four years and protecting health benefits and its defined benefit pension plan. But Canada Post says a signing bonus for employees is no longer on the table. The new offer also appears to clear the path for future layoffs. It proposes that Canada Post give the union six months notice of impending job losses, as well as a voluntary departure incentive of up to 78 weeks pay. The chief of the Pegwis First Nation in Manitoba is calling for the immediate termination of an agreement that gave control of child and family services to his community. He says the safety and well-being of children is at risk.

That's the opposite of what his predecessor said when this deal was signed three years ago. Karen Pauls explains. When Pegu's First Nation became the first indigenous community in Manitoba to take control of child welfare, then Chief Glenn Hudson said it was an historic moment. I think the cycle's been broken now. You know, it's our responsibility. It's our care that is going to be provided. Today, a different chief wants the federal and provincial governments to scrap the 300,

$19 million agreement. Instead of helping it, has created a system that is failing us at every level. Stan Byrd, who's also a registered clinical and school psychologist, says he's heard concerns from parents and children, but didn't provide details. He says he's been unable to get answers from the board of directors running the agency. There's no outside oversight, and every day I worry that something terrible will happen. Bird wants to create a new agency. Premier Wab Knew says he wants to know more. more before commenting. Karen Paul's, CBC News, Winnipeg. And Sean Diddy Combs has been sentenced to four years and two months in prison. The hip-hop mogul had previously been convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. Speaking in court, Combs apologized for his past

behavior, calling it disgusting, shameful and sick. The judge said he was unconvinced that Combs won't commit the same crimes if released. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey.