The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/07 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/07 at 16:00 EDT

All right. It is October. It is officially spooky season, which is great timing because there is a new Canadian thriller series out. It's called Wayward, and I think we should be talking about it. My name is Alameen Abdu Mahmoud and I love pop culture. And this week on my podcast, Commotion, I called up some of my favorite critics to get into the show about a school for troubled teens and then things start to go wrong. It is just wonderful. And it's bringing something new and interesting to the thriller genre. For that episode and a whole lot more, you can find and follow Commotion with Alameen Abduhne. on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, The World This Hour, I'm Mike Miles. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney have concluded their meeting at the White House. Carney's second visit to Washington comes amid rising tensions over trade and uncertainty about the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement. It's up for a review next year, and Trump says everything is on the table.

Well, we can renegotiate it, and that would be good, we could just do different deals. We're allowed to do different deals if we were. We might make deals that are better for the individual countries. Trump says Canada and the U.S. are in what the calls

a natural business conflict, but spoke highly of Carney's negotiating skills. He says he'll treat Canada fairly, adding Canada will be very happy with the eventual deal. US tariffs are hitting the Canadian steel, aluminum, copper, auto and soft with lumber sectors, especially hard.

Two of the leaders of their truck convoy that took over downtown Ottawa in the winter of 2022 have received conditional sentences. Both Chris Barber and Tamara Leach have both been found guilty of mischief. Barber was also convicted of counseling others to commit, excuse me, commit mischief. Today, they've both been sentenced to 12 months of house arrest, followed by six months' curfew and community service. Ottawa's fast-tracking access to new drugs used to treat cancer.

The province says treatments will be available almost a full year sooner than before. Officials insist the plan prioritizes speed without sacrificing safety. Jennifer Yun as details. When compared to other Western countries, Canada ranks among the last in giving access to new medications for its citizens. Now Ontario is trying to change that. Sylvia Jones is the Minister of Health. This three-year pilot will expedite access to up to 10 high-priority cancer drugs each year. The program would make sure patients get access to those drugs before government.

and pharmaceutical companies agree on how much it will cost. Dr. Bista Giawali is a cancer doctor at Queen's University. We are not bypassing the most crucial steps of Health Canada and CDA, and we are only bypassing the negotiation phase. Even as Ontario starts its fast-tracked program, Giawali says it'll also be important to pressure the industry to lower prices on treatments to make sure the government doesn't end up paying more at the end of the negotiations. Jennifer Yun, CBC News, Toronto.

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. Orat Baron'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 me. Israel believes roughly 48 hostages remain in Gaza, about 20 of them alive. The memorials come as delegations from Hamas and Israel work 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 UN 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. This year's recipients for the Nobel Prize in physics have been announced in Stockholm. John Clark, Michel Deveret, and John Martinez for the discovery of macroscopic

quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit. The three Americans were honored for their work in expanding the study into quantum mechanics, The Nobel Committee says there is no advanced technology used today that does not rely on quantum mechanics. That includes mobile phones, cameras, and fiber optic cables. The Nobel announcements continue all week. The Peace Prize will be announced Friday. The Toronto Blue Jays could finish the best of five American League Division Series with a sweep tonight. They're heading to game three against the New York Yankees with a two-out lead.

If the Yankees win, they'll face either Seattle or Detroit in the AL Championship Series. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles.