The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/27 at 08:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/27 at 08:00 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 it's the world this hour i'm joe cummings a new report from food banks canada says the country's hunger crisis is getting worse

the charitable organization says monthly visits in march of this year were up by more than five percent over twenty twenty four and visits have nearly doubled since the months leading up to the pandemic the new He says one-third of those now using food banks are children, and one in five are working adults. The lead author of the report is calling on Ottawa to extend employment insurance to gig and self-employed workers and to increase the Canada disability benefit, which was introduced this past July. Prime Minister Mark Carney is confirming that he was never offered the opportunity to speak with U.S. President Donald Trump at this weekend's trade summit in Kuala Lampur. Trump has now left the summit, and Carney says it appears to stay.

snub is related to the anti-tariff ad campaign. Ontario's been running in the United States. Murray Brewster has more. The fact that they haven't spoken, it's not a good sign. And Trump said on Air Force One today that he doesn't want to talk to Carney for a long time. It's been suggested by some of Trump's senior advisors that the Ontario government ads are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the U.S. frustration with Canada. Canada was making important progress on sectoral trade issues with Washington before the Ontario government anti-terror ads started running. But Carney also declined to criticize Premier Doug Ford directly. And others will have opinions and others welcome free advice, unsolicited advice, as is entirely

appropriate. Every Canadian is a stakeholder. The Prime Minister says that he's going to make himself available at any time to talk with Trump. He also says there's a plan B if talks don't resume, but the Prime Minister declined to say, what that contingency would look like. Murray Brewster, CBC News, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia. Now to Jamaica. That's a scene along the coast of Kingston as Hurricane Melissa approaches. It has now been declared a Category 5 storm,

which is the highest designation on the Stormwatch scale. Evan Thompson is the principal director of the Jamaican Weather Service. Right now. is that we will be directly impacted by the eye a landfalling between Monday night and Tuesday morning, and it will move across us right through the day on Tuesday. Melissa is a slow-moving storm that killed at least three people in Haiti over the weekend and a fourth person in the Dominican Republic. Damage in both countries is extensive.

After hitting Jamaica tonight, Melissa is expected to continue moving toward Cuba and then ultimately to the Bahamas. The Victoria man is telling the story of how he felt. victim to one of Canada's biggest ever bank scams. The Canadian senior lost his entire life savings, and he says the most shocking part is that two major banks didn't step in despite seeing numerous red flags. Erica Johnson has a story. Can't 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 C.IBC.

He said Anholz's identity had been stolen. His money was at risk, and he needed to pull it all out of the bank and handed 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 Anholt says it was worse at RBC.

They're not asking for ID. They're not asking any questions. Meantime, C-IBC 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 the world this hour. For News Anytime, go to our website. We're at cBCNews.ca.

For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings. Thank you.