The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/26 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 26, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/26 at 16:00 EDT

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. From CBC News, The World This Hour. I'm Mike Miles. Both Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump are in Malaysia for a summit, but they're not on the same page when it comes to cross-border trade. An angry Trump saying yesterday, he's going to impose an additional 10% tariff on Canada. David Thurton has more on the reaction from Ottawa. Yeah, I'll just make a few comments. Prime Minister Mark Carney oversees in Malaysia, responding to the latest escalation in trade talk.

talks with the US. Donald Trump angry about an anti-tariff ad from the Ontario government that aired in the U.S. announcing a 10% tariff on Canadian goods and services. Karni seemingly sending a message to premiers like Ontario's Doug Ford. It is the sole responsibility of the government of Canada to have those discussions with the United States. One White House official U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant called Ontario's ad propaganda. The Premier of Ontario seems to have come off the rails a little. He has taken the ads down, but what's the purpose of that other than to try to sway U.S. public opinion? Pressed about the additional 10% tariff, percent couldn't say whether it would apply to specific

sectors or across the board. David Thurton, CBC News, Ottawa. Now a category four, Hurricane Melissa is expected to get even stronger, reaching category five overnight, and forecasters are warning of possibly catastrophic damage in places like Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. Jennifer Glass has more. In Port Royal Jamaica, men pull boats out of the water and up onto land as Hurricane Melissa churns towards the Caribbean nation. Melissa could be the strongest storm to hit Jamaica since record-keeping began, and Deputy Director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center, Jamie Rome, says because it is slow moving, it could linger over Jamaica for 24 hours, dropping more than 940

millimeters of rain. Over heavily mountainous terrain, that is almost certain to create catastrophic flooding, life-threatening, life-threatening flash flooding, roads impassable communities cut off. Rome says conditions are expected to deteriorate rapidly on the island where hotels and Jamaica's convention center have set up shelters. Melissa is expected to make landfall on Jamaica on Tuesday and hit Cuba early Wednesday. Jennifer Glass for CBC News, New Smyrna Beach, Florida. In Kyiv. Excavators clear away rubble from a damaged department building.

Ukrainian officials say three people were killed by overnight Russian drone strikes. Dozens more were injured, including children. City officials say one attack hit a residential neighborhood. President Vladimir Zelensky is now calling for stronger sanctions against Moscow. at the Rafa border crossing trucks cross into Gaza carrying heavy equipment specialist teams from the Red Cross

and Egypt have been given the go-ahead to help Hamas locate the bodies of dead Israeli hostages in the rubble at least 13 bodies have yet to be returned the BC General Employees Union says it has reached a tentative agreement with the province ending an eight-week strike involving more than 25,000 public service workers

The union says the deal addresses wages, affordability, and respect for frontline public service workers. It's been exactly six months since 11 people were killed and dozens more injured at Vancouver's Lapu Lapu Day Festival. This weekend, the community gathered in nearby New Westminster for a day of healing. Bella Sanazero says it's important to have a safe space to connect and grieve together. There's still sadness and grief, right? because we cannot speed up the process of grieving and dealing with loss, especially in our community, Filipino community. We are a collective community, so we really support each other, we rely on each other.

Participants took part in grief seminars, art workshops, and yoga. That is your world this hour. For news anytime, visit our website, cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm... like Miles.