The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/03 at 22:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/03 at 22:00 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 the world this hour i'm mike miles israeli media are reporting the idf have been told to scale back operations in gaza

That follows U.S. President Donald Trump's call tonight for it to stop bombing the territory. After Hamas announced it is ready to negotiate the release of all hostages, alive and dead, under Trump's proposed terms. The militant group says it accepts parts of Trump's plan to end the fighting. Trump quickly posted a video thanking other Middle Eastern countries for their help. Everybody was unified in wanting this war to end and seeing peace in the Middle East, and we're very close to achieving that. Hamas has also agreed to hand over administration of Gaza to an independent body of Palestinian technocrats,

but it also calls for negotiations on significant details like timing. Amas also says it won't disarm until Israeli troops leave Gaza altogether, while Trump's plan demands the reverse. The White House will be open when Prime Minister Mark Carney arrives next week, but other parts of the U.S. government may not be. Republicans and Democrats are playing a blame game, leaving hundreds of thousands of workers stuck in the middle. Ashley Wark has more.

After threatening mass layoffs during a government shutdown, U.S. President Donald Trump posting an AI-generated music video featuring his budget director as the Grim Reaper. Trump's latest move to put pressure on the Democrats with threats to Democratic agencies as a standoff intensifies between Republican and Democratic lawmakers over measures to fund the government. On this vote, the yeas are,

54 and the nays are 44. In the Senate, a fourth vote that could have ended the shutdown failed again. Estimates show as many as 750,000 government workers could be furloughed. Others are working without pay, but are guaranteed to be paid later once the shutdown has ended. Ashley Burke, CBC News, Washington. Canada Post has taken lifetime employment guarantees off the table and its latest offer to striking postal workers. Like previous office, it proposes a salary increase of more than 13% over four years. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers calls that insulting. Here's CupW negotiator, Jim Callant. Instead of coming closer, the government has interfered and said that they're going to cut service. And we voted no. The minister ordered a vote back in May, and members heavily voted against

it. And this is the punishment that we receive from this government. This is union busting one-on-one. We need to put a stop to this stuff. Workers walked last week after the federal government announced major operational changes, including ending door-to-door delivery and shuddering some rural post offices. A group opposed to Alberta separation has started a petition asking people if they believe the province should stay in Canada, and it has 80% of what's required by provincial election officials for it to be considered as potential legislation or referendum. Renali Anchen has more from Edmonton. A crowd of over three dozen supporters met at Borden Park in a final push to gather 300,000 signatures

to submit in protest to a movement to separate Alberta from Canada. Thomas Lukazek is the petition submitter and former progressive conservative deputy premier. He says the campaign aims to go past the target set by elections Alberta. We will be running past the finish line. So we will be collecting signatures. on the morning of October 28 so that I can deliver them on the evening of October 28. John Moreau drove from Calgary to Edmonton to deliver nine boxes of 80,000 signatures. It gives an opportunity for people to step up, ordinary citizens, to step up and have their voices heard.

Lukasik says there are about 5,000 volunteers across the province working to gather signatures. Murnalli-Unchin, CBC News, Edmonton. Marine Land is asking Ottawa for emergency funding to feed and care for its whales, saying that otherwise the animals will be euthanized. The Ontario theme park says it's running out of money and has no other option to house them. That is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles.