The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/23 at 20:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/23 at 20:00 EDT

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Sources are telling CBC News, Ottawa is pushing back on two American automakers by limiting the number of vehicles so they can import into Canada tariff-free. Stalant has announced it was moving production out of Ontario to the U.S. And General Motors is ending production of electric vans. The two will no longer be exempt from paying Canada's retaliatory tariffs on U.S. assembled vehicles. Ottawa's unveiled its plan to toughen bail rules and sentencing, especially for repeat and violent offenders. Civil liberties groups are not happy with the bill, but BC's government seems pleased. Mirabane's reports.

The bail and sentencing reform act includes a big shift for those charged with violent crimes with a creation of new so-called reverse onuses, Justice Minister Sean Fraser. In most bail hearings, prosecutors must demonstrate a person should be tained before a court denies them bail. A reverse onus flips that rule, meaning the accused must convince the court that they should be released. If passed, this will apply to people charged with crimes, including extortion involving violence, organized crime-related car theft, and sexual assault involving choking and strangulation. BC Attorney General Nikki Sharma says BC provided input for the changes and described how the legislation will affect the province.

We'll target prolific offenders, will give us better tools for spail and sentencing on extortions, and will protect people against intimate partner violence. But where the money for more prosecutors to handle the cases will come from is unclear. Mira Baines, CBC News, Vancouver. Ottawa and Ontario are setting aside $3 billion to build four small nuclear reactors in Bowmanville. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the investment alongside Ontario Premier Doug Ford. An investment that will extend Canada's world leadership in clean energy. We are an energy super.

power and we are only getting stronger. Carney says each of the four modular reactors will be able to power 300,000 homes, and he says the Darlington Nuclear Project will create thousands of jobs. The reactors are among the first batch of nation-building projects to be fast-tracked by the federal government. The Alberta government has served formal notice. It will introduce back-to-work legislation to end the teacher strike. Nearly 750,000 Alberta kids have been out of the classroom since the strike began October 6th. Premier, excuse me, Premier Daniel Smith says the legislation will be introduced Monday unless there's a deal by then. Striking teachers from across Alberta are rallying outside the legislature, which began its fall sitting today.

The U.S. Secretary of State is in Israel, trying to shore up the fragile ceasefire in Gaza. But as Willie Lowry reports, efforts by American officials are coming. 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. One of Donald Trump's adversary says she'll move to have federal charges against her dismissed. New York Attorney General Lettisha Chames is charged with bank fraud, among other things. Her legal team plans to argue the Trump picked U.S. attorney that got the indictment was not lawfully appointed. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles. Thank you.