The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/26 at 06:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 26, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/26 at 06:00 EDT

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steve futterman has more winning the first two games of the world series doesn't guarantee victory but it gives you a pretty good chance and that's what the blue jays were hoping to do the dodgers took an early one-nothing lead in the first first, but Toronto came back to tide in the third. It stayed that way until the seven. High drive deep to left field. It's Smith with a big swing. Dodger catcher Will Smith hit a solo home run to make it two to one. Two batters later, it was three to one. This time it was Max Muncie hitting the home run. L.A. added two more runs than the eighth. That was more than enough for L.A. starter, Yoshiyamamoto, who did something very rare in modern baseball. pitch a complete game in the World Series.

Before the game, the hero of the Blue Jays' 1993 World Series Championship, Joe Carter, throughout the ceremonial first pitch. But on this night, there was no Joe Carter walk-off magic. Steve Futterman, CBC News, at the World Series in Toronto. In Kuala Lompur, Prime Minister Mark Carney is attending the summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. We are going to double our non-U.S. exports. the course the next 10 years. We think we can do it a much shorter period of time. That's 300 billion of additional exports. Most of that is going to come from Asia in our view.

Mark Carney says on top of that commitment, his government will lay out a path for at least a half a trillion dollars in additional investment in Canada. Carney says it will happen in the next five years with a focus on energy, particularly building infrastructure to drive both clean and conventional energy and trade corridors. Still in Kuala Lumpur, the Prime Minister took some lighthearted jabs at Ontario Premier Doug Ford apparently in response to the anti-tariff TV ads which sparked

the termination of USA-Canada trade talks. A few days ago, I launched with my good friend, Premier Ford. Did I say good friend, Premier Ford? I said the always entertaining, no, the always interesting, the always unpredictable President, Premier Ford.

Yeah, God, sorry, I don't know why I mixed the two up, President and Premier Ford. is that on by the way no Mark Carney made those comments during a news conference from the ASEAN summit this morning Meanwhile US President Donald Trump

has overseen a peace deal between Thailand and Cambodia as both countries have had a long-standing border dispute trade pressure from Trump led to a ceasefire in late July which ended five days of clashes that killed over two dozen people

Trump is in Malaysia where he will attend the summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations today. The province of Alberta could be bracing itself for another strike. Some members of the Alberta Union of provincial employees will hold a strike vote from October 30th through November the 3rd. This time it involves nursing care workers with Alberta health services. Bargaining began in March of last year. The two sides have yet to reach a deal.

Union Vice President Bonnie Gostola says a strike vote could move things forward. Bring the employer back to the table and come back with actually being prepared to bargain with us and address our top priorities at that table, as was actually asked for by the mediator. In a statement to CBC, the office of the press secretary for the Minister of Finance says it won't comment on active negotiations out of respect for the bargaining process. Hurricane Melissa has strengthened into a major category three storm. it has been unleashing torrential rain and threatening to cause catastrophic flooding in the northern Caribbean, including Haiti and Jamaica. Melissa became a hurricane on Saturday and then intensified rapidly into a major storm. U.S. forecasters have issued a hurricane warning for Jamaica and say Melissa could further strengthen into a category four storm. And that is your world this hour.

For CBC News, I'm Claude Fagg. Thank you.