The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/07 at 13:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/07 at 13:00 EDT

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That's vote.org.com. Thanks for listening. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Mike Miles. Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Washington for talk with President Donald Trump. It's Carney's second visit to the Oval Office since becoming Prime Minister. He's there to discuss lowering tariffs on key Canadian sectors. There are areas where we compete, and it's in those areas where we have to come to an agreement that works. But there are more areas where we are stronger together, and that's what we're focused on.

And we're going to get the right deal. Trump says Carney will walk away from this meeting very happy. He praised Carney and his negotiating skills. He's a good man. He does a great job, and he's a tough negotiator. So then what's holding things up? If he's a great man and you want to do a deal with Canada, why aren't she? because I want to be a great man too Trump says

he will treat Canada fairly and hinted that the trade deal with Canada will be comprehensive U.S. tariffs are hitting the Canadian steel, aluminum, copper, auto and soft with Lungber sectors particularly hard. In Israel, mourners arranged flowers at the site of the Nova Music Festival.

That's where Hamas militants killed more than 1,200 people and took 250 hostages two years ago today. Orr at Barron's daughter, Yuval, was among the victims. She says the pain is still raw. Nothing else is important. Nothing else can be complete because she's my heart. And they took it from it.

Israel believes roughly 48 hostages remain in Gaza, about 20 of them alive. The memorials come as delegations from Hamas and Israel worked to finalize a deal that would see their release. Since the October 7th attacks, Israel's ensuing war in Gaza has killed nearly 70,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials. The U.N. says parts of the enclave are suffering from famine. A U.S. proposed peace deal calls for a ceasefire and scaled up supplies of humanitarian aid. Concordia University has closed its downtown Montreal campus. The move comes as large demonstrations are planned to coincide with today's second anniversary of the October 7th attack. Lauren McCallum reports.

and vice chancellor Graham Carr says hundreds of protesters from other universities in Seychs are expected to gather near Concordia this afternoon, adding that the threat of, quote, extreme disruption is too high to operate as usual. He says yesterday's demonstrators disrupted a class and midterm exam. In the notice, Carr adds one of the two people arrested, was in possession of a metal bar and several incendiary devices. Montreal police spokesperson Rafael Bergeron confirms two men were arrested. One was arrested for a mischief and the other one for assault on a security guard. Concordia says the two men who were arrested had no connection to the university.

Montreal police say they are stepping up patrols today ahead of this afternoon's protests. Dawson College and McGill University are not canceling classes, but they will be increasing security. Lauren McCallum, CBC News, Montreal. Ontario Premier Doug Ford is calling on Ottawa to reverse its decision banning the export of marine lands, beluga whales. The Ontario theme park says sending its 30 remaining whales to China was its only option. It's now asked the federal government to pay for their upkeep. Ford says Ottawa needs to offer solutions. It was the federal government that allowed them to bring these whales here.

It should be the federal government that allows them to move them to China or other marine areas that will take them. The federal fisheries and oceans minister says marine lands request for money is inappropriate and that Ontario also had a role to play. Marine Land has warned it would start euthanizing the whales if it doesn't receive cash by today. Two of the leaders of the truck convoy that took over downtown Ottawa in the winter of 2022 have received conditional sentences. Both Chris Barber and Tamara Leach had been found guilty of mischief. Barber was also convicted of counseling others to commit mischief.

The Crown was asking for at least a seven-year prison sentence. That is your world this hour? remember you can listen to us wherever you get our podcasts we update every hour seven days a week for cbc news i'm mike miles