The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/08 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/08 at 12:00 EDT

What happens when an identity is stolen? And then what happens when there isn't anyone or any document to help you get it back? He's saying, I'm innocent. I am William Woods. One William Woods ended up in prison. The other went on to live a normal life for decades. I'm Kathleen Goldhar and this week on Crime Story, The Two Lives of William Woods. Find us wherever you get your podcasts. 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 excel pipeline in his

meeting yesterday at the white house with u.s president donald trump and it's possible carney could be looking to use keystone as leverage in his tariff negotiations with the white house Janice McGregor reports. This pipeline was a hot political debate like a decade ago. TransCanada, which is now TC Energy. It had a proposal to send Alberta oil south, first to U.S. refineries, but then onwards it hoped to world markets. This was stopped by Barack Obama's administration amid intense pressure from environmentalists.

But Donald Trump has always liked this pipeline idea and a source with direct knowledge of the president's conversation with Mark Carney yesterday, says the Prime Minister raised the idea of reviving this pipeline proposal as some part of a bigger cooperative deal between Canada and the U.S. But it's unclear how the tradeoffs around this partnership that Carney's pitching would really work. The company has moved on. And as far as we know, this isn't a pipeline that a proponent has put in front of, for example,

the new federal major projects office to prioritize. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. Speaking of pipelines, B.C. Premier David E.B. and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith are at odds over Smith's campaign for a pipeline from the Alberta oil patch to the northern B.C. coast. Katie DeRosa explains. It's a spat that escalated quickly. Last week, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith outlined her plan to get federal support for a proposed bitchement pipeline to British Columbia's North Coast. Major nation building project. BC Premier David Eby tried to be a good neighbor, tempering his.

opposition to the proposed pipeline. But now the gloves are off. It's not the Danielle Smith show. It's the Canadian team. Daniel Smith says, Premier's comments are un-Canadian and they're unconstitutional. Smith insists that private sector backers will build the pipeline if Ottawa removes roadblocks, such as the ban on tanker traffic off BC's North Coast. Following a meeting with the Prime Minister Monday, Danielle Smith insists that Mark Carney pledged to reach an agreement on the proposed pipeline by mid-November.

David E.B., meanwhile, is calling on the PM to focus on shovel-ready projects, not what he calls a fictional pipeline. Katie DeRosa, CBC News, Victoria. Former FBI director James Comey appeared in a Virginia courtroom this morning and pleaded not guilty to two charges laid by the U.S. Justice Department. Comey is accused of providing false statements and obstructing a congressional proceeding. The case is linked to an investigation Comey led into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. His trial is set to start January 5th. National Guard troops from Texas are in Illinois preparing to enter the city of Chicago. U.S. President Donald Trump says the Chicago deployment is needed to help with immigration enforcement and to fight crime.

But Mayor Brandon Johnson calls it reckless and unconstitutional. The federal government is out of control. This is one of the most dangerous times in our nation's history, an unhinged, double-minded, simple-minded man who is not being held accountable. The White House is accusing the mayor of, quote, aiding and abetting criminals, rapists, and drug traffickers. Both the city and the state of Illinois have launched legal campaigns to stop the deployment. Nobel Week continues with the prize for chemistry being awarded today.

Susome Kitagawa, Kyoto University in Japan. Richard Robson, University of Melbourne, Australia. and Omar Jagi, University of California at Berkeley, USA, for the development of metal-organic frameworks. That's the 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.

And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings. Thank you.