The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/08 at 09:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/08 at 09:00 EDT

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The debater's 20th anniversary season, comedy, worth arguing about. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. CBC News has learned that Prime Minister Mark Carney raised the Keystone XL pipeline in his meeting yesterday with U.S. President Donald Trump. Keystone XL would move oil from northern Alberta to the American Midwest, but both the Obama and Biden administrations kept the project from

moving forward. Trump has said in the past that he wants to revive Keystone, and it's possible Carney is prepared to use it as leverage in his tariff negotiations with the White House. However, Canada U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc has yet to offer any specifics about the latest Washington talks. We talked about ways to quickly arrive at a deal that will bring a better circumstance to both countries. Incidentally, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is still in Washington and we'll be meeting today with Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The Israeli military has intercepted another aid flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea, and

according to Israel, six Canadians are among the activists who have been detained. The flotilla includes nine vessels that were believed to be looking to challenge Israel's naval blockade of Gaza. Israel says 145 people were aboard the boats, and they are now being processed for deportation. National Guard troops from Texas are in Illinois. preparing to enter the city of Chicago. It's deeply concerning. We don't know exactly where this is going to end.

What we know is that it is striking fear in the hearts of everybody in Chicago. That is Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker. U.S. President Donald Trump says the Chicago deployment is necessary to help with immigration enforcement and to fight crime. The National Guard troops are being housed outside the city at an army training facility that was entirely enclosed this week by security fencing. Both the city and the state are before the court's looking to get the deployment stopped. It's a dispute that's not even a year old, but it's already cost Via Rail $30 million. At issue, speed limits imposed on Via by CN. Gabrielle Lamarcahn-Paro has the details.

Via Rail has been paying the price for its dispute with CN since the fall of 2024. CBC has learned that the conflict related to Cien's decision to impose speed limits at railroad crossings has cost nearly $31 million in travel credits in nine months. Travel credits of up to 100% of the price paid are offered to passengers whenever

a train is more than an hour late. Jacques-Ras is a retired professor specializing in transportation and logistic management. It adds to the frustration of the rail users who are facing an unreliable schedule

service. For the past few weeks, train have been able to run at a constant, albeit reduced, speed over longer segments. Both VRL and CN insist they will not compromise on safety, but the two cannot agree and the measures that should be put in place to protect all passengers. Gabriel Markampéro, CBC News, Ottawa. Nobel Week continues with the prize for chemistry being awarded today. Susume Kitagawa, Kyoto University, Japan. Richard Robson, University of Melbourne, Australia,

and Omar Jagie, University of California at Berkeley, USA, for the development of metal-organic frameworks. It's a Nobel committee honoring three scientists for their work in separating toxic molecules from wastewater. The prize for literature will be handed out tomorrow. The Peace Prize will be awarded on Friday. The Yankees beat the Blue Jays last night. Diving stop at third by Cavallero. He will fall out, and that's the ball game.

9-6 was the final score for the Yankees, and New York has its first win in this best of five American League Divisional Series. So the Jay's now up two games to one. They can finish things off tonight, finally, again in New York, to close things out and move on with a victory to the American League Championship series. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.