The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/21 at 05:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/21 at 05:00 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 Neil Hurland.

The Toronto Blue Jays are headed to the World Series. And for the first time in 32 years, the Blue Jays have won the pennies. The Toronto Blue Jays beat the Seattle Mariners last night 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. Voters in Alberta's two largest cities have chosen new mayors. Local elections were held across the province on Monday. But as Dave White reports, the final results could still be days away. The results in Calgary are still too close to call. So obviously the results are very tight. Former city councilor Jeremy Farkas holds a narrow lead for mayor over challenger Sonia Sharp. As for incumbent,

Joti Gondek, she conceded defeat in a distant third. This didn't end up the way that we had all hoped, but I'm standing here very proud of what we have built together. Gondek becomes Calgary's first single-term mayor since the early 1980s. In Edmonton, results had only just begun to appear online late in the evening, but they show Andrew Nack taking a lead over Tim Cartmel. While Albertans await the outcomes, one thing is clear. There were problems across the province with the election process, with many waiting

in long lines to cast votes. New provincial legislation passed about a year ago means election workers had to hand count ballots. For many Alberta communities, official results will not be known until later this week. Dave White, CBC News, Calgary. Japanese lawmakers have elected their country's first female prime minister. It's a historic moment for a country

with the largest gender gap among G7 nations. Caspovin reports from Tokyo. 64-year-old Sana'a Takaichi shattered one of Japan's long-standing glass ceilings in a parliamentary vote after winning leadership of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party earlier this month. She inherits an LDP government on a losing streak, tasked with revitalizing a stagnant economy and reversing a plunging birth rate. Takaichi's a traditionalist who opposes same-sex marriage and allowing married women to keep their maiden names. She cites Margaret Thatcher. is an influence, and she also wants to change the post-war constitution to build up Japan's military to counter China. Takaichi will have to hit the ground running when it comes to diplomacy.

She's attending the APEC summit in South Korea at the end of the month, and in just under a week, she'll host her first foreign leader as Prime Minister, U.S. President Donald Trump. Kasbovind, for CBC News, Tokyo. British Columbia is preparing to welcome more than 140 health care workers from the U.S. The province is actively recruiting doctors and nurses unhappy with delivering health care under the Trump administration. Lindsay Duncombe has more. Randy Fry pulls into the parking lot at Nanaimo General Hospital.

She's a nurse, and she's moved to BC to escape Donald Trump. She and her 13-year-old son, Bruce, moved to Nanaimo from just outside Los Angeles. If you want to care for others in a place that cares about you, come to BC. British Columbia is desperate for health care workers, so the province is targeting Americans with an advertising campaign and fast-tracking the process to get them jobs. Henrietta Addo was working in Michigan. She's black and worried she would lose her job as the administration-slashed diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. It was like, okay, if they start making cuts, will you be it? Both Addo and Frye expect to be busy.

The community is in the grips of an opioid crisis. But Fry says she's ready for the challenge. It just solidifies that this is where I belong. Lindsay Duncombe, CBC News, Nanaimo. Former French President Nikola Sarkozy is behind bars this morning. He arrived at a prison in Paris today to begin serving a five-year sentence for criminal conspiracy. He financed his 2007 election campaign with money from Libya.

And that's the CBC News. News. Thank you.