The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/14 at 08:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/14 at 08:00 EDT

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From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Clawfagg. The latest tariffs in U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war kick in today. It's a global 10% tariff on all softwood lumber and timber entering the U.S. For Canada, this will come on top of steep levees already in place. The CBC's Janice McGregor reports from Ottawa. The thing about lumber tariffs is, that they are mutually destructive.

The U.S. construction industry not only likes the stronger softwood lumber from Canada's colder climate, it needs it. Its own mills can't meet demand. Housing starts are already down in the U.S. tariffs only make it worse. Nevertheless, two by fours required to frame American homes are now piling on to the list of exports targeted according to the Trump administration's national security rationale. Since the expiration of the most recent softwood lumber trade truce with Canada a decade ago, Canadian forest companies have been on a roller coaster of seemingly endless cycles of anti-dumping

and countervailing duties, legal appeals, any assistance government provides to keep the industry afloat. Well, that just becomes fodder for the next U.S. industry complaint of unfair subsidization. As a result, the Canadian share of the U.S. market has fallen from about a third, two decades ago, to around a quarter of the American market now. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. It's Election Day in Newfoundland and Labrador to elect members of the 51st General Assembly of the province. Liberal leader John Hogan is hoping voters will give his party another majority government.

But progressive conservative leader Tony Wakeham says it's time for a change. Health care, the economy, and an energy deal with Quebec have dominated the campaign. But ultimately, NDP leader Jim Dynne says he thinks this election will be a referendum on the liberal's leadership. A parent in Ottawa is warning others about the possible concerning effects of respiratory illness. RSV can spread quickly among infants and young children. And as Kimberly Molina reports, it can be devastating. Jessica Cohn has a perfectly healthy 10-year-old boy, but when he was less than a month old, he developed respiratory since sysial virus. The thing with RSV is that it tends to peak around day three to day five.

Cohn says he got progressively worse and was almost intubated. They did some more tests and they determined he'd also developed pneumonia. He spent two weeks in hospital. RSV can cause up to 16 times more hospitalizations among infants and young children compared to the flu. Dr. Doreen-El-Charr is a physician at the Ottawa Hospital, and she sits on an RSV task force. There could be long-term effects as well, and we know that it's associated with asthma and wheezing. Dr. L. Char says there are now antibodies and vaccines, but she says some provinces only offer the antibodies and vaccines to high-risk mothers and infants.

Kimberly Molina, CBC News, Ottawa. The U.S. Defense Department is giving an ultimatum to media outlets, agree to follow new rules or hand in your access passes for the Pentagon. Several media outlets are refusing. The CBC's Willie Lowry reports from Washington. Under the new regulations, journalists who cover the Pentagon will have to sign a document that promises they won't use information that hasn't been authorized.

In a social media post, defense secretary Pete Hegseth said, access to the Pentagon was a privilege. He added that under the new rules, the press will no longer be allowed to roam the building, freely and will no longer be permitted to solicit criminal acts. In other words, leaked information. It should be noted that Secretary Hegeseth was partially responsible for what some believed to be one of the biggest leaks of the Trump administration to date when a journalist was inadvertently

added to a government group chat on a U.S. strike on Houthi rebels in Yemen. The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, and a host of other outlets say they have no plans to agree to the Pentagon's terms. Willie Lowry, CBC News, Washington. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fag.