The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/07 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/07 at 12:00 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, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. Prime Minister Mark Carney has arrived at the White House for talks this hour with U.S. President Donald Trump. The Trump tariffs will be the main focus of discussion with Ontario Premier Doug Ford saying he will be watching

very closely. I'd take a different approach. Try to get a deal if you can't. We've got to hit him back hard and never stop hitting him back hard because we can never take a back seat to anyone, especially President Trump. It's Carney's second visit to the Oval Office

since becoming prime minister, and he's making the trip as UF tariffs are hitting the Canadian steel, aluminum, copper, auto, and softwood lumber sectors. And just yesterday, Trump vowed to impose a 25% tariff on truck imports starting next month. Meanwhile, back in Ottawa, the Kearney government is busy retooling its border security bill. Bill C2 was drafted to satisfy the demands of the Trump White House, but it hasn't survived

the scrutiny of the opposition parties. Janice McGregor has more. C2 is a long and complex bill. Not all of it is controversial, but the way C2 would allow authorities to intercept communications, search and seize digital data, well, that became a bridge too far. Here's opposition leader, Pierre Pollyev, speaking to our colleague Kate McKenna over the weekend announcing conservatives would not allow this bill to move forward. If you expect there's something suspicious in a parcel or an envelope, you set it aside,

you go to a judge, and you get a warrant. The envelope or parcel is not going to grow legs and run away. Not only conservatives, but the bloc and new Democrat MPs were also, not prepared to vote with the liberals on this one. So in a minority parliament, the government's gone back to the drawing board, trying to figure out how to pull what couldn't find support in order to save and pass the rest. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. Today is the deadline for the federal government to respond to marine lands request for emergency funding. The Ontario Amusement Park says if it doesn't get the financial help it needs,

it will have to euthanize its remaining 30 beluga whales. The park had a deal last month to send the whales to an aquarium in China. But Ottawa blocked the export request saying it was not in the best interest of the whales. Two years ago, October 7, 2023, the Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked southern Israel. The coordinated assault claimed 1,200 lives, with Hamas taking 251 hostages. And across Israel today, memorial services large and small are being held. Meanwhile, in Gaza, millions of Palestinians continue to deal with the impact of the going Israeli response. Crystal Gamansing reports.

In Gaza, street noise, people jostling for food and crowds, but it is the cry of her children that caught Salma Toil. They are not able to bear the situation. Toil spoke to CBC over Zoom not long after she was forced to leave Gaza City with her family. She's now in Dira Bala, but isn't sure it's much safer. The World Health Organization says 42,000 people in Gaza are now living with life-changing injuries, save the children last month, said at least one Palestinian child has been killed every hour on average by Israeli forces in Gaza during the course of the war.

Israel says it tries to protect civilians by issuing evacuation notices. Humanitarian groups have repeatedly called for an end to the fighting, citing the right to protection, food, and clean water, none of which are readily available in Gaza. Gilgamancing, CBC News, Sterat, Israel. Toronto Blue Jays can finish off the New York Yankees tonight. It's game three of the American League Divisional Playoff Series, with the Blue Jays one win away from a series sweep. The Jays are up 2-0 in this best of five,

with game time tonight in New York at Yankee Stadium, 8 o'clock Eastern. And that is the world this hour. For news any time, go to our website, CBCNews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.