The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/27 at 06:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/27 at 06:00 EDT

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our minister mark carney has confirmed u.s president donald trump left the assean summit this week without speaking to him and he says the snub does appear to be related to the anti-tariff ad ontario paid for during the world series mccarny is insisting that the ascent talks are still important for in Canada, and he wants Canada to double its non-U.S. exports over the next decade. The Canada-Azian relationship is full of potential. This is a region of nearly 700 million consumers, with a market worth over $5 trillion. It's already Canada's second largest trading partner with over $260 billion in two-way merchandise trade alone. Yet, even at those levels, it still only represents about 10% of our exports.

Carney says he's working to complete a new Canada-Acean Free Trade Agreement by next year. He says it would add $1.5 billion to the Canadian economy. Medical analysts across the country are marking the one-year anniversary of one of the biggest measles outbreaks in decades. And their warning, it could easily happen again, especially with Canada on the verge of losing international status as a measles-free country. Lauren Pelley has more. I think it's inevitable that there will be more cases of measles in Canada. One year after Canada declared a measles outbreak, new infections have died down, but concern about the future remains high.

McMaster University immunologist Don Bodesh said childhood vaccination rates have dropped in recent years, while entire pockets of the country remain unprotected. She's among those calling for a national vaccine registry for better tracking to help target public health efforts. It is shocking that Canada is one of the few countries in the G7 that doesn't have such a thing. If chains of measles transmission continue past October, it's also possible Canada could lose its measles elimination status from the World Health Organization. Quite frankly, if we were to lose our status, it's embarrassing. It's embarrassing at an international level.

But Toronto infectious disease specialist, Dr. Isaac Bogosh, says that outcome isn't a sure thing. He said more targeted outreach to under-vaccinated communities could help stop the spread of one of the world's most contagious diseases. Lauren Pelley, CBC News, Toronto. We're expecting the Alberta government to table back to work legislation today that will send the province's 51,000 striking teachers back to the classroom. They've been off the job now for three weeks, and Gil McCowan, the president of the Alberta Federation of Labor, says if the province makes good on its legislative threat, it will be bad news for labor organizations right across the country.

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. It's not clear how much longer the teachers will have on the picket line if the back-to-work legislation is tabled today. It has happened earlier than expected, but Hurricane Melissa, bearing down on Jamaica, is now a Category 5 storm. That's devastating winds and waves slamming against the shore of a Kingston waterfront.

As Melissa approaches, it's gaining strength slowly but surely. Evan Thompson is the principal director of Jamaica's weather service. I think it's inevitable that there will be more cases of measles in Canada. One year after Canada declared a measles outbreak, new infections have died down, but concern about the future remains high. McMaster University immunologist Don Bodesh said childhood vaccination rates have dropped in recent years while entire pockets of the country remain unprotected. She's among those calling for a national vaccine registry.

Our apologies, that is not the report from Jamaica. We go now to Evan Thompson, the principal director of Jamaica's hurricane service. Right now, the forecast is that we will be directly impacted by the eye of landfalling between Monday night and Tuesday morning and it will move across us. right through the day on Tuesday. After hitting Jamaica, Hurricane Melissa expected then to head toward Cuba.