The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/23 at 14:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 23, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/23 at 14:00 EDT

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. Bro.C.A. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Mike Miles. The Liberal Government has introduced its long-promised bail reform bill. Justice Minister Sean Fraser made the announcement. This is a package of sweeping reforms that will make bail laws stricter and sentencing tougher, in particular for violent and repeat offenders. Ottawa's making dozens of changes designed to make bail more difficult to get.

Repeat offenders will now have to prove that it's safe the grant. than bail. As well, the bill proposes tougher sentences for a number of offenses and allow for consecutive sentences one after another for violent repeat offenders. The changes have long been demanded by victims' rights advocates, police unions, and some provincial premiers. Ottawa and Ontario are investing $3 billion into clean energy. This project will make us the first in the G7 to have an entirely new kind of nuclear reactor. Prime Minister Mark Carney says the money will will pay for four small modular nuclear reactors. They'll be built in Bowmanville, Ontario, next to the existing Darlington Power Plant, and he promises the technology will generate thousands

of new jobs. They'll extend over the next 65 years. A couple of more World Series trips for the Jays. The modular reactors are among the first batch of nation-building projects to be fast-tracked by the federal government. Alberta's government has served former noticed it will introduce back-to-work legislation to end that province's teachers' strike. Nearly 750,000 Alberta kids have been out of the classroom since the strike began October 6th. Premier Daniel Smith says the legislation will be introduced one day unless there's a deal by then. Striking teachers from across Alberta are rallying outside the legislature, which begins its fall seating today. The FBI has arrested dozens of people, including current and former NBA players and members of the mafia.

They are accused of being part of a massive gambling scheme involving NBA games and underground poker. Jonsi Billups, a former Toronto rapper and current head coach of the Portland Trailblazers, is among those arrested. FBI director Cash Patel says the defendants exploited insider information to bet on NBA games. And the fraud is mind-boggling. It's not hundreds of dollars. It's not thousands of dollars. It's not tens of thousands of dollars. It's not even millions of dollars.

We're talking about tens of millions of dollars. of dollars in fraud and theft and robbery across a multi-year investigation. Officials say charges range from money laundering to extortion and armed robbery. The NBA, sorry, says it's putting Billups and Miami Heat Guard Terry Rozier on immediate leave while the investigation continues. History was made today at the Vatican for the first time in five centuries, a Pope and a British monarch bowed their heads together in prayer. Megan Williams has more.

In the hushed splendor of the Sistine Chapel, a scene unfolded that just decades ago was unimaginable. King Charles, head of the Church of England and Pope Leo, bowing their heads in prayer, side by side. God, our Father, you have created the heavens and the earth. Religious affairs commentator Catherine Pepinster says the encounter highlights decades of efforts to bridge the gap between the Anglican and Catholic churches. divisions that began when King Henry the 8th broke away from the Catholic Church some 500 years ago. The thing that it shows is that there is an attempt to bring Christians together. Today's encounter at the Vatican, that included Queen Camilla,

was supposed to have taken place in April with Pope Francis, but postponed due to his hospitalization and then death. Megan Williams, CBC News, the Vatican. The Canada Industrial Relations Board has ruled, the federal government did not violate postal workers' charter right to strike when it legislated them back to work last year. While the bill ended that walkout, the contract dispute continues. Workers are now taking part in rotating strikes. That is your world this hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts. We update every hour, seven days a week.

For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles. Thank you.