The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/16 at 14:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 16, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/16 at 14:00 EDT

The spirit of innovation is deeply ingrained in Canada, and Google is helping Canadians innovate in ways both big and small, from mapping accessible spaces so the disabled community can explore with confidence, to unlocking billions in domestic tourism revenue. Thousands of Canadian companies are innovating with Google AI. Innovation is Canada's story. Let's tell it together. Find out more at g.co slash Canadian Innovation. from cbc news the world this hour i'm mike miles white minister mark carney released details today on his

government's plans to tackle crime at the center of the policy is reforms to the bail system that he says will keep those accused of violent crimes off the streets while they await trial creating new reverse onus bail provisions for violent and organized crime related offenses It will no longer be up to the crown to prove why someone should stay behind bars. It will be up to the accused to prove to the court why they can be trusted to be released. As well, Carney says his government will introduce tougher sentences and the possibility of consecutive sentences for certain crimes, including violent auto theft, organized crime, organized retail threat, theft, rather, and home invasion.

People convicted of sexual assault will no longer be eligible for, conditional sentences served in the community. Kearney also says Stalantis is looking at finding a new model to be produced at its idle plant in Brampton, Ontario, but that decision won't be coming quickly, and it will depend on the language of a renewed free trade deal with the United States. Earlier this week, Stalantis announced it was moving the production of the Jeep Compass from Brampton to its Illinois facility. Police in Surrey, BC are investigating another shooting at a business owned by a prominent

Indian comedian. Shots have been fired at Capp's Cafe twice before, and earlier this morning, it happened again. Surrey police say there were people inside at the time, but fortunately, no one was hurt. Investigators say the violence appears to be related to extortion. There have been more than five dozen extortion-related cases in Surrey this year, and 35 related shootings. The U.S. President says he intends to meet his Russian counterpart again in Hungary. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin discussed the ongoing war. in Ukraine in the phone call today. It comes as Kiev is ordering, excuse me, urging Washington to supply with long-range missiles in a bid to put further pressure on Moscow. Willie Lowry reports.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke at length over the phone. Trump has made ending the conflict a foreign policy priority, but has admitted that it has been more difficult than he anticipated. The two countries will take part in high-level talks led by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio next week. Trump says he then plans to meet with Putin in Budapest, Hungary. The call comes ahead of a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House Friday. Press Secretary Caroline Levitt says Trump will brief Zelensky about the call.

So I think the president deserves a great deal of credit for doing that, coming home, dealing with so many domestic issues, and then again hopping on yet another call with President Putin and hosting President Zelensky to try to move the ball forward in peace and end this conflict in Russia. The war has escalated in recent weeks with Ukraine targeting Russian oil refineries and Russia attacking Ukraine's power grid. Willie Lowry, CBC News, Washington. Afghanistan and Pakistan have agreed to a temporary ceasefire.

It comes after a week of deadly clashes along their border and retaliatory strikes on the Afghan capital. Salima Shivji reports. The streets of Kabul as explosions rocked the Afghan capital. Neighboring Pakistan carried out retaliatory strikes after clashes near their shared border, left at least a dozen people dead and hundreds more injured, both soldiers and civilians. Intense fighting at the volatile border broke out on Sunday. The heaviest clashes between the two countries in years.

Late Wednesday, the two sides declared they had reached a ceasefire, a temporary one that will last 48 hours. But there are concerns the violence and incendiary rhetoric that accompanied it could still spiral. Ties between Afghanistan and Pakistan have. deteriorated rapidly since the Taliban took power in 2021, with Islamabad accusing Kabul of harboring militant groups like the Pakistani Taliban, the TTP, which has been behind a rising number of deadly attacks. Salim Ashvji, CBC News, Mumbai. And that is the world this hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get podcasts.

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