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

Episode Date: October 21, 2025

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

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I'm Neil Hurland. We begin with breaking baseball news. The Toronto Blue Jays are headed to the World Series. Tonight, the Jays beat the Seattle Mariners in game seven of the American League Championship Series. Final score 4-3. Toronto will now face the L.A. Dodgers in the World Series starting this Friday. The CBC's Jamie Strassion was at the game and joined. joins me now. Jamie, what was it like to watch the Jay's win tonight?

Neil, I've been going to Blue Jay Games for more than four decades. I've been going to Toronto sporting events my whole life. I've never heard a building louder ever. You know, you hear the, you know, people say, oh, the roof was going to get blown off the dome. You really felt in that moment that it could have. An epic crowd, an epic reaction, an epic moment. And Jamie, what's the historic context here? When you look at Toronto Blue Jays sports history, you have Joe Carter's home run, you have Jose Batista's bat flip, and now you have George Springer's go-ahead three-round homer that propelled the Blue Jays into their first World Series in more than 30 years, absolutely blowing the roof off of the dome. You couldn't hear yourself thinking there when that ball went out, giving the Blue Jays a 4-3 lead, which they held on to defeat the Seattle Mariners in seven games. and they'll now go on to take on the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series.

And of course, this didn't look likely at the start of this series. It looked like the Jays might go down and defeat. Neil, this series really represents all that this Blue Jay season has been, down but never out. They lost the first two games at home. They had to go to Seattle and win at least two games just to come back to Toronto. They won game six, down 3-1 in game seven. They came back to pull it out.

We've heard the word resilience. see all year around this Blue Jay team, no more so than tonight. Thanks, Jamie. Thank you, Neil. The CBC's Jamie Strassion in downtown Toronto tonight. The polls are now closed across Alberta, and the counting is underway in municipal elections. We're keeping a close eye tonight on the vote for mayor in Calgary and Edmonton. This year's results could take longer because each ballot is being counted by hand.

A Quebec judge will decide whether there should be a new election in the federal riding of Tehrbonne. The seat was narrowly won by the Liberals in the last election by one single vote over the Bloch Quebecois. Lawyers for the bloc argue the election needs to be rerun because a woman who had voted Block had her ballot rejected because of a wrong postal code. The federal government has announced new plans to protect Canadians from financial scams and abuse. It includes a national agency to investigate and recover money from laundering, organized crime and online scams. As Marine von Stackleberg reports, the announcement comes just weeks before the Carney government presents its first budget. What's taking so long? Well, I'm taking that

over now, so it's going to happen. Finance Minister Francois Philippe Champagne sloughing off questions about his new anti-fraud organization. The Liberals first promised it four years ago. The financial crimes agency will be created this spring. The finance department, can't say exactly what it will look like, who will be in charge, or how much it will cost. It's the fourth new agency the Carney government is creating, aimed at streamlining the federal bureaucracy. You need something different. Fighting financial crime in the 21st century is something very complex. Other new measures include requiring banks do more to detect and prevent fraud. Canadians will also have more control over their bank accounts.

to explicitly approve e-transfers and other payments and set their own transaction limits. Marina von Stackleberg, CBC News, Ottawa. One of the world's largest cloud computing services is back online after a massive disruption on Monday. Amazon Web Services says the outage that began early Monday morning affected millions of users globally. And that is your world this hour.

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