The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/16 at 21:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/16 at 21:00 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 is sour i'm neil kumar prime minister mark carney has unveiled some of the details in its government's new crime bill which will be tabled next week it includes measures making bill more difficult to get and tougher sentences for violent crimes olivia stavanovitch has more

canadians deserve to feel safe in their community prime minister mark carney announced his government's long-awaited plan to crack down on crime With so-called reverse onus bail, it will be up to the accused to prove to the court why they can be trusted to be released. The proposed legislation would allow consecutive sentencing for those offenders accused of serious crimes, including violent auto theft, human trafficking, and sexual assault, along with a pledge to hire 1,000 more Mounties. We are going to scrap liberal bail. Conservative leader Pierre Pauliev is dismissing carnation. proposed changes, urging the federal government to pass his party's private members bill on bail reform instead. The previous liberal government made bail less onerous. Now it's become the latest Trudeau-era policy to be put on the chopping block. Olivia Stefanovic, CBC News, Ottawa.

Prime Minister Mark Carney 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 production of the Jeep Compass from Brampton to its Illinois facility. In BC, a cafe and Surrey has been targeted by gunmen for a third time. Police say they received a call just after 3.30 in the morning. And they say the shooting appears to be part of extortion-related violence, which is targeting people in the South Asian community. Ian McDonald speaks for Surrey police. The only silver lining in this very disturbing sort of trend,

and targeting of this business is that none of the staff have been hurt. Certainly, this has the earmarks of extortion. Ourselves, in terms of Surrey Police Service, as well as the provincial extortion task force, already have eyes on this investigation, and we plan to move it forward. There have been 65 extortion-related cases and 35 associated shootings in Surrey this year. Similar incidents occurred in Alberta and Ontario. Former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton has been indicted on charges of mishandling classified information. Bolton worked in the first Trump administration

and has since become a harsh critic of the president. Bolton is accused of transmitting and retaining classified materials and sharing more than a thousand pages with family. Bolton's lawyer says not so. The news comes on the heels of indictments against Donald Trump's other perceived political enemies, including former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. There's a new push for U.S. President Donald Trump to end the war in Ukraine. And it includes a plan for another in-person meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Paul Hunter reports from Washington. Almost exactly two months after U.S. President Donald Trump sat down with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska.

A summit Trump said was aimed at finding peace in Ukraine, a follow-up phone call between the two. We just had a call, as you know, with President Putin. I thought it was a very good call. Trump is believed to be frustrated that ending the war has proven elusive. Russia attacked Ukraine in 2022, and though Trump has often said he could end it quickly, the fighting rages on. We hope we're going to get it stopped. I thought this would be very quick.

Trump announcing he and Putin will soon sit down for another face-to-face in Hungary, as Trump put it in a truth social posting, to see if we can bring this inglorious war to an end. All of it. Just a day before Trump meets with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky at the White House. Paul Hunter, CBC News, Washington. And that is your world this hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you got your podcast. The World This Hour is updated every hour seven days a week.

For CBC News, I'm Neil Kumar. Thank you.