The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/08 at 00:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/08 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 Neil Hurland. Mark Carney's visit to the White House ended without a deal. The Prime Minister was hoping for some relief from hard-hitting U.S. tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum, and autos. Katie Simpson reports.

There had been this sort of expectation. That was the phrase that was used by multiple sources to CBC News and Radio Canada, that Canada was going to see some limited tariff relief, particularly around steel and possibly aluminum. And something didn't go the way Canada had expected. So that is going to be a setback. And if tariffs remain as is or even get worse, that is going to make the renegotiation of Kuzma, the Canada-US-Mexico trade agreement, even more complicated. The U.S. can use tariffs to try to pressure Canada into even more concessions when the formal renegotiation process starts next year. You know, if we take a step back, what a difference a few months makes?

No more is anyone in Canada expecting to see tariffs come to an end. Trump has made it explicitly clear. Tariffs are here to stay, and that's what every U.S. trading partner is going to have to deal with. It's just now a matter of whether Canada can get some limited relief from those tariffs. Katie Simpson, CBC News, Washington. Two leaders of the truck convoy that took over downtown Ottawa in 2022 will not face any jail time. and Tamara Leach were both found guilty of mischief back in April. Nicole Williams reports on their sentencing Tuesday.

It's a far cry from the sentences Crown attorneys were asking for. They argued freedom convoy leaders Tamara Leach and Chris Barber should face significant jail time for their part in the 2022 protests. It saw truckers from across the country occupy the nation's capital for three weeks in a protest of COVID-19 vaccine mandates at the time. Barbara and Leach were both found guilty of mischief in court six months ago. Barbara also convicted for counseling others to disobey a court order. The judge in this case has now sentenced Barbara to a year of house arrest with conditions and six months of probation.

As for Leach, she's also received a year of house arrest, followed by three and a half months of probation. Both have been ordered to also do 100 hours of community service. A victory for the dozens of people who showed up in support of Barber and Leach. Nicole Williams, CBC News, Ottawa. Now to Israel. Mourners arranged flowers at the site of the Nova Music Festival, one of several locations where the Palestinian militant group Hamas killed 1,200 people and took 251 hostages two years ago on Tuesday.

Oryt Barron's daughter Yuval was among the victims. is important. Nothing else is, can be complete because she's my heart, and they took it for me. Israel believes roughly 48 hostages remain in Gaza, about 20 of them are still alive. The memorials come as delegations from Hamas and Israel work to finalize a deal that would free the hostages. Since the October 7th attacks, Israel has been fighting a war with Hamas in Gaza. The Gaza Health Ministry, which is run by Hamas, says 67,000 Palestinians have died, although that number doesn't distinguish between civilians and armed fighters. Police in Lungay, Quebec, have released a video they hope will locate the parents of an abandoned baby.

On Sunday, the infant was found on the front step of a residence. The grainy video shows a person holding the baby while walking on the sidewalk. Police say they don't know if the person in the video is one of the parents. They're urging the parents or anyone with information to come forward. We've got breaking baseball news. Diving stop at third by Cataillero. He will fall out and that's the ball game. The New York Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays tonight 9-6 in game three of the American League Division series.

The Jays were ahead six-one at the start of the night, but the Yankees roared back. Toronto leads the best of five series two to one. Game four is Wednesday in New York. And that is your world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland.