The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/15 at 04:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 15, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/15 at 04:00 EDT

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Voters in Newfoundland and Labrador have ousted the Liberals after nearly 10 years in power. Last night, the Progressive Conservative Party won a majority government in the province. PC leader Tony Wakeham will be Canada's newest premier. Brett Ruskin reports from St. John's. Tony, Tony, Tony, Tony, Tony. Wakeham is leader of Newfoundland and Labrador's progressive conservatives. It was exactly two years ago that he got that job. Now he has another.

Wakeham is now Newfoundland Labrador's premier designate and will form the next provincial government. Holsters and pundits were saying it was going to be another liberal majority. But we knew all of us. This ends 10 years of liberal wins, with provincial liberal leader John Hogan winning his seat, but losing his status as premier. People of Newfoundland and Labrador have spoken, and we will always respect their choice.

And in the coming days, I'll meet with the lieutenant governor and Mr. Wakeham to ensure a smooth government transition. Throughout this campaign, the progressive conservatives promised to help families balance their own books before balancing the government's finances. They made promises to invest in health care, policing, and mental health support, all while committing to cut taxes. Brett Ruskin, CBC News, St. John's. The Israeli public broadcaster Kahn says that Israel will proceed with opening the Rafa border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, allowing the transfer of more humanitarian aid into Gaza. Israel had threatened to limit the number of aid trucks after the Palestinian militant group Hamas did not return all the bodies of dead hostages this week. An inquest begins today in a remote northern Ontario First Nation. The coroner's jury will examine the circumstances surrounding the 2021 deaths of five people.

As Kate Rutherford reports, they fell ill during an outbreak of a fungal illness. They diagnosed them for pneumonia. Arthur Moore says his son, 43-year-old, Luke, was the first of five people from Constance Lake, First Nation, to die during an outbreak of a fungal disease. An autopsy identified the cause as blastomycosis. It's caused by breathing in spores from damp soil and rotting wood and is naturally occurring. The chief during the outbreak, Ramona Sutherland, says dozens of people were sickened. People were afraid to go outside, she says, or even worried the spores were in their basements.

We don't really know how it's going to be held or what it actually means. Chastity Finless and Moore is ready for the inquest remembering the loss of her cousin Luke. She hopes to find out where the blastomachosis came from. There hasn't been any cases since. Investigators took more than 350 soil samples, but Indigenous Services Canada says the source remains a mystery. The inquest is set to run for 25 days. Kate Rutherford, CBC News, Sudbury.

If you're buying what Walmart is selling, you'll soon be able to shop for it on ChatGPT. OpenAI's ultra-popular chatbot is entering the e-commerce space, and the retail giant is the latest to partner with it. Jenna Benchutrade reports. You'll soon be able to tell ChatGPT to generate a shopping list, and it will supply one with real products that you can buy with a single click. Walmart, after Etsy and Shopify, is the latest retailer planning to sell through the chatbot.

Here it will allow some shoppers to interact, ask question, delegate tasks. Maxime Cohen is an AI and retail expert at McGill University. ChatGPT's offering puts it in competition with e-commerce giants like Amazon, on, but he cautions that small businesses could fall by the wayside if some brands are boosted at the expense of others. Shopify President Harley Finkelstein recently said in Toronto that that won't be the case. He's going to have a perfect history of every sneaker you've ever purchased. But that poses some privacy concerns, says Ritesh Kotak, a cybersecurity analyst in Toronto. Where is that data actually housed? Who has access to it?

If the company's latest experiment succeeds, chat GPT could become your personal shopper. Jenna Benchit, CBC News, Toronto. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland.