The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/23 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 23, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/23 at 16:00 EDT

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. Bro.C.A. From CBC News, The World This Hour, I'm Mike Miles. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has moving forward with back-to-work legislation to end a three-week-old teacher strike. More than 750,000 students have been out of class since October 6th. Aaron Collins reports. A convoy of school buses on its way from Calgary to Edmonton.

Teachers like Aaron Criscoe, heading to a. rally outside the provincial legislature. I'm here to support public education and support our students. We've got 27 buses going out to support public education. The fall sitting of the legislature begins with a teacher's strike in its third week. Premier Danielle Smith says back-to-work legislation is coming on Monday. We know that this strike is causing harm to kids. We know it's causing harm to teachers since there isn't a strike fund and we want to be able to end it.

But questions remain about what will happen after teachers are forced back to work. And that's all the time we have for questions today. Are there any meetings scheduled? Premier, when are school going to open? Parents all want to know that. Teachers say growing class sizes and inadequate resources for students with complex needs are their biggest issues.

Aaron Collins, CBC News, Calgary. The Carney government has tabled its long-awaited bail reform legislation. Repeat offenders will now have to prove that it's safe to grant them bail. As well, it will provide for tougher sentences for a number of offenses and allow for consecutive sentences, one after another, for violent repeat offenders. 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 pay for four small modular reactors to be built in Bowmanville, Ontario,

next to the existing Darlington power plant. and he promises that technology will generate thousands of new jobs. The modular reactors are among the first batch of nation-building projects to be fast-tracked by the federal government. The U.S. Secretary of State is in Israel trying to show up the fragile ceasefire in Gaza, but as Willie Lowry reports, efforts by American officials are complicated by recent actions taken by Israeli politicians. First came special envoy Steve Whitkoff and President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner,

Then Vice President J.D. Vance. And finally, Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, a diplomatic quartet with a clear message. We're clear-eyed about the challenges, too. But the President has made this a top priority. That was Secretary of State Rubio, shortly after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel's leader praised U.S. efforts to keep the ceasefire alive. This is a circle of trust and partnership. You've been an extraordinary friend of Israel.

But the diplomatic blitz comes as Israel advances legislation. to annex parts of the West Bank. A move J.D. Vance said the administration would not tolerate. If it was a political stunt, it was a very stupid political stunt, and I personally take some insult to it. On Thursday, Time Magazine published an interview with Trump, who says Israel would lose all U.S. support if it went ahead with annexation. Willie Lowry, CBC News, Jerusalem.

The FBI has arrested dozens of people, including current and former NBA players and members of the mafia. They're accused of being part of a massive gambling scheme involving NBA games and underground poker. Johnson Phillips, a former Toronto Raptor and current head coach of the Portland Trailblazers, is among those arrested. FBI director Cash Patel says that 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 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 says it is putting bullops in Miami-heat guard Terry Rozier on immediate leave while the investigation continues. That is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles.

Thank you.