The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/14 at 21:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 15, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/14 at 21:00 EDT

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and a digital business library full of on-demand resources. Benefit together with Chambers Plan. Learn more at hellochambers.ca. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. It's election night in Newfoundland and Labrador. The polls are now closed and the votes are still being counted. The progressive conservatives led by Tony Wakeham are leading or elected in 21 ridings.

If that number holds tonight, they could form a majority government and beat the provincial liberals led by John Hogan. The liberals in Newfoundland and Labrador have been, in power for nearly 10 years. Canadian lumber is taking another hit from U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war, and it's not just softwood. New tariffs announced last month are now in effect. Yasmin Rania reports.

As workers sand down kitchen cabinets at Nichols Cabinets in Richmond, BC, Director of Sales and Marketing Keith Grubaugh is anxious. The main driver of the stress is the uncertainty. About 70% of the company's products are shipped to the U.S. Again, we're trying to refocus our efforts looking at different markets, but that takes years to develop. There's now a 25% tariff on kitchen cabinets and vanities imported into the U.S. that could rise to 50% in January if a deal is not reached, and an additional 10% global tariff on softwood lumber and timber imports.

Canadian producers were already facing duties of just over 35%, meaning Canadian softwood will now see total import taxes exceeding 45%. percent. Yasmil Renea, CBC News, Vancouver. After laying off thousands of workers in Ontario earlier this year, the automaker Stalantis says it's expanding its U.S. operations. Stalantis said tariffs led to unstable market conditions here in Canada. Tonight, the Prime Minister's office says it's working with the company to protect Canadian workers and create new opportunities for them in Ontario. The Palestinian militant group Hamas says the remains of an additional four Israeli hostages have been transferred back to Israel. The return of bodies is

becoming an early stumbling block for the peace agreement, and the delivery of aid to Gaza hangs in the balance. Margaret Evans reports from Jerusalem. The Egyptian border town of Areech is thick with aid trucks, waiting to head into Gaza via the Rafah crossing as required by the recent ceasefire. But Israel is now threatening to keep it closed and to reduce aid. accusing Hamas of violating the terms of the truce by failing to return the bodies of all 28 Israeli hostages, along with the living released on Monday. Hamas blames the vast devastation in Gaza,

bodies lost under the rubble. Israel doesn't believe it, although there was an addendum to the agreement providing for a task force to help locate the missing bodies. By nightfall, Hamas had turned to. the remains of four more hostages over to the Red Cross, and they are now on Israeli soil. But it's not clear whether it will be enough to satisfy Israel. Margaret Evans, CBC News, Jerusalem.

Instagram is introducing new safeguards for teens by limiting what they can access on the app. The changes come as its parent company, Meta, faces intense criticism about exposing young users to inappropriate content. Nisha Patel has more. I think this is one step on a much longer path to try to be the safest platform for teens online. Head of Instagram Adam Masseri says teen accounts will now become even more restrictive, allowing them to only see content similar to what they might see in a PG-13 movie, with tighter controls on strong language and suggestive visuals. And if you as a parent, you want to go even a step further, you can.

You can actually set up parental controls and lock down the content setting to something called... Even if teens claim to be able to... The company said it will use age prediction technology to place users into certain content protections. The changes come just weeks after a U.S. study by a group of online safety researchers found that nearly 60% of teens using Instagram reported seeing unsafe content over the last six months. Nisha Patel, CBC News, Toronto. And that is your world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. Thank you.