The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/04 at 00:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/04 at 00:00 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 israeli media reporting the idf have been told to scale back operations in gaza that follows u.s president donald trump's call 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 that 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. producer and rapper Sean Diddy Combs has been sentenced to just over four years in prison. He was convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. Deanna Sumanak Johnson has more. He begged the judge for mercy. Six of his children spoke during the sentencing hearing.

At the end of the day, Sean Diddy Combs has been sentenced to spend the next four years and two months in prison. Gloria already is a well-known lawyer who represents some alleged victims of Combs in a civil lawsuit. That's somewhere in between, but the prosecution is. wanted and what the defense wanted. In July, the hip-hop mogul was found guilty of two counts of transportation for prostitution, but was acquitted of more serious charges of sex trafficking and racketeering. Judge Aaron Sobramannian said the testimonies heard during the trial, detailing physical abuse, factored into the sentence. Criminal defense lawyer Matthew Galuzzo says that's not unusual. A judge sentences you not just on what you were convicted of, although that is certainly what

governs the maximum and the minimum, but also what's considered relevant conduct. Experts say P. Diddy Combs could spend as little as two and a half years in jail. Deanna Suminac Johnson, CBC News, Toronto. Striking postal workers are calling Canada Post's latest offer insulting. The carrier's new proposal maintains the previous offer of a salary increase of more than 13% over four years. But it also takes away lifetime employment guarantees and lifts restrictions on post office closures. Workers went on a national strike last week after the federal government announced major operational changes.

Canada Post Vice President John Hamilton insists an overhaul is overdue. We have to put forward offers that we can afford, and obviously I think Canadians are well aware of our finances and well aware that as taxpayers, they're paying more and more to keep the lights on at Canada Post and the clear direction from the government is we can't continue that. The Postal Workers Union criticized the liberal government for making changes without enough public consultation, It accused the corporation of refusing to negotiate. The federal public safety minister wants to know what caused two IT outages at Canada's borders this week.

Gary Anand Sangaree is giving the Canada Border Service Agency 30 days to come up with a plan to prevent future blackouts. As Philip Lee-Shanock tells us, the outage caused chaos at border crossings and airports. Started seeing the signs on the interstate, seeing that the Canadian border was closed. Truck driver Eve Duaron was headed back to New Bruns. 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 Laskeowski is with the Canadian Trucking Association. He says many of the more than 12,000 trucks that crossed the border per day were idle. It's not like the lights have gone out and you're home and you're annoyed. That means trade isn't moving across the border. The CBSSA 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 Lyshenock, CBC News, Toronto.

And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles. Thank you.