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

Episode Date: October 10, 2025

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

A new season of Love Me is here. Real stories of real, complicated relationships. It's not even like a gender. I mean, it's wrapped up in gender, but it's just a really deep self-hate. I think I cried almost every day. I just stole myself on the floor. It's coming on really straight.

It's like he's trying to date you all of the sudden. Yeah, and I do look like my mother. Love Me, available now wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Kate McGilfrey. Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced measures, he says, are aimed at making life more affordable. They'll be part of next month's budget

and include automatic tax filing for low-income Canadians. Millions of lower-income Canadians don't file their taxes, either because they don't have the resources to do so, or because they think that their income is too low for it to matter. And that means too often that the people who most need benefits often don't get them. Carney says the process will be free and automated. Eligible Canadians will just need to confirm details on a pre-filled tax return to receive all the benefits they're entitled to.

The liberals are also making the National School Food Program permanent. The union representing 50,000 Canadian postal workers, is changing up its strategy. It will end its national strike tomorrow. and move instead to rotating strikes, but it says it is not giving up the fight for what it calls a good collective agreement. Canada Post says it welcomes back its employees, but says the uncertainty created by the rotating strikes continues, and as a result, all service guarantees are suspended. Canadian employers added 60,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate held steady at 7.1 percent. As Peter Armstrong tells us, both numbers are better than

expected. It's been a rough year for Canadian businesses. The trade war crashed into the economy in April. GDP contracted sharply and tens of thousands of jobs were lost. But since then, things have stabilized. The headline in the jobs report was good, but the details were better. 106,000 full-time jobs were added and 40,000 part-time jobs were lost. Even manufacturing, the hardest hit sector, actually added jobs. Bimo's chief economist Douglas Porter, says, there are encouraging signs that the economy has absorbed the uncertainty caused by the start of the trade war. This might be an early indication that things are turning the corner. It's certainly eye-popping that the manufacturing sector reportedly added more than 20,000 jobs in the month.

But he says it's way too early to say that Canada has put the worst of the trade war behind us, pointing out the economy lost 60,000 jobs in August alone. Peter Armstrong, CBC News, Toronto. A massive explosion in Tennessee has killed several people. Can I describe the building? There's nothing to describe. It's gone. Humphrey's County Sheriff Chris Davis says 19 other people are still missing.

The exact number of fatalities is unclear. This factory produced explosives for the military and for industrial use. It's probably been one of the most devastating situations that I've been on in my career. Davis says an investigation into the cause of the blast will take several days. With a ceasefire now in effect in Gaza, the wait begins for the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. There's also hope for a large increase in the amount of aid entering the territory. Breyer Stewart reports. Thousands of Gazans are heading north, some carrying mattresses and wheeling suitcases,

desperate to return home, even if it means sleeping in a tent amid the ruins. of their street. Under the ceasefire agreement, Israel is supposed to allow 600 aid trucks into Gaza each day. But for now, Ahmed Byram with the Norwegian Refugee Council says aid groups are waiting for the green light. Just open the gates. That's all we need Israel to do. Open all crossings and keep those crossings open so that aid can gush in. There are reports that Israel will begin allowing more aid in on Sunday. By Monday at noon, Hamas is supposed to have released the 48 hostages. 20 of them are believed to be alive. In exchange, Israel will release around 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. That same day, U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to arrive in Israel

and address the country's parliament. Breyer Stewart, CBC News, Jerusalem. And that is The World This Hour. For news anytime, visit our website, cbcnews.ca.ca. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey. Thank you.