The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/23 at 21:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/23 at 21:00 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 is sour i'm neil kumar the karny government is revealing more details about its bill to reform bail and sentencing

justice minister sean fraser says the law would make it more difficult for repeat or violent offenders to get pretrial bail marina von stackerberg has more this is a package of sweeping reforms that includes more than 80 targeted measures that will make bail laws stricter and sentencing tougher, in particular for violent and repeat offenders. Those changes would make it harder for someone charged with serious crimes to get bail. The onus would be on the accused to prove why they should be released from jail. Police and courts would also need to consider if the person was at risk of random or unprovoked violence before letting them out.

But civil liberties groups say the legislation will violate the constitutional right. to bail and disregard the basic principle that someone is innocent until proven guilty. Criminal defense lawyer Lawrence Greenspawn. It completely ignores the existing problem, which is that you have a whole bunch of presumed innocent people already in jail to the extent that there's three or four of them in a cell. Marina von Stackleberg, CBC News, Ottawa. Ottawa and Ontario are setting aside $3 billion to build four small nuclear reactors in Bowmanville. An investment that will extend Canada's world leadership in clean energy.

We are an energy superpower, and we are only getting stronger. Prime Minister Mark 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. Sources are telling CBC News that Ottawa is pushing back on two American automakers. by limiting the number of vehicles they can import into Canada tariff-free. Stalantis announced it was moving production out of Ontario to the U.S. And General Motors is an ending production of electric vans.

As Ashley Burke explains, the governments are looking to compel the automakers to continue production in Canada. We've heard the industry minister Melanie Jolie be very clear that she was disappointed in Stalantis. She called it unacceptable. And she said she was going to put maximum pressure on them. She threatened to sue them. We also learned that the federal government gave them

$105 million to retool that Brampton, Ontario plant and its Windsor plant for production. And the government feels that after giving them this money, they didn't live up to their promise. The condition was they had to keep that plant going. Ontario's Premier Doug Ford also said they would sue GM if they didn't live up to what they committed to. And we heard the Prime Minister, too, weigh in, saying that he spoke to GM, that they have said that they will pay their workers like they have to and live up to that obligation. But he said it's not enough. that he's not satisfied. They're looking for ways to try to keep that plant, that GM plant and Ingersoll open. But all of this really appears to be a move to put pressure on them to not drain production out of Canada to the U.S.

That's the CBC's Ashley Burke in Ottawa. 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. Chaunty Billups, a former Toronto Raptors player and current head coach of the Portland Trailblazers is some of 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 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's putting Billups and Miami Heat Guard Terry Rozier on immediate leave while the investigation continues. The Canada Industrial Relations Board has ruled that 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. And that is your rule this hour for CBS News. I'm Neil Kumar.