The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/27 at 04:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/27 at 04:00 EDT

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I'm Neil Hurland. Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Malaysia at a summit of Southeast Asian leaders, but U.S. President Donald Trump is also there, and over the weekend he threatened to raise tariffs on Canada by 10% in response to an anti-tariff ad from the Ontario government. Katie Simpson reports. The White House has so far. declined to answer specific questions about the threat.

Scott Besson, the Treasury Secretary, was asked, and he was unsure if Kuzma exemptions will continue, but that's only because he said he hadn't been briefed on the situation yet. Trump has put blanket tariffs on Canada because he says the northern border is a security problem for people crossing illegally and for the flow of illegal drugs into the U.S. If he hikes those rates by 10% because he's mad about a commercial, does that undermine the argument that these tariffs are really about border security. But again, we don't even know how this will work yet.

If he goes ahead with a hike, it could weaken his arguments that his team plans to make before the U.S. Supreme Court next month. They will argue that tariffs are a vital tool at the president's disposal to protect national security. The justices will eventually have to decide whether most of Trump's broad tariffs targeting countries are legal. Katie Simpson, CBC News, Washington. Voters in Nunavut will cast ballots today in a territorial election.

There are 22 seats in the legislature, but two of them had candidates acclaimed because no one else ran against them. David Joannisi was acclaimed in South Baffin. We have this privilege entitlement to vote, and we should certainly take it seriously because there's other parts of the world that don't have this. There are no political parties in Nunavut. The government runs on a consensus model,

model. The Alberta government is vowing to force striking teachers back to work with legislation today. Fifty-one thousand teachers went on strike October 6th. Now Premier Danielle Smith says she wants to use the notwithstanding clause of the Canadian Constitution to end the strike. Gil McGowan is president of the Alberta Federation of Labor. If we have a provincial government that uses the notwithstanding clause to crush the rights of workers, especially the right to strike, then other governments, especially conservative governments and other provinces,

we'll see that as a precedent. Residents of Jamaica and Haiti are bracing for the arrival of Hurricane Melissa. They're boarding up windows and stocking up on supplies. Avery Willery lives in Montego Bay. I'm just here to get some gas, and I was trying to see if I can get a generator.

The look of how things is going right now and how I see the sky and the weather coming in, I think this one is different. This one is going to impact us hard. Hurricane Melissa is listed as a Category 4 storm and it could cause catastrophic flooding. A Victoria man is telling the story of how he fell victim to one of the biggest ever bank investigator scams reported in Canada. He lost his entire life savings. Erica Johnson has this go public investigation.

think of anything else, day in and day out. 89-year-old Ray Anholt was left penniless after scammers convinced him to hand over his life savings, almost $1.7 million. It started with a phone call, someone posing as a bank employee with CIBC. He said Anholt's identity had been stolen. His money was at risk, and he needed to pull it all out of the bank and hand it over to a courier who'd collect it for safekeeping. I assume they were telling me the truth. As he repeatedly pulled out thousands, CIBC warned him. Activity on his account was unusual, but let him keep withdrawing.

Ray's son, Lee Anhalt, says it was worse at RBC. They're not asking for ID. They're not asking any questions. Meantime, CIBC said its investigation is ongoing. RBC said it has now resolved the issue with Ray Anhold, but didn't say how. Erica Johnson, CBC News, Vancouver. And that is your world this hour. I'm Neil Hurlin.