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

Episode Date: October 27, 2025

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

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. from cbc news it's the world this hour i'm joe cummings our 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 koala lampur trump has now left the summit and carney says it appears the snub is related to the anti-tariff ad campaign ontario has 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, 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. Marie Brewster, CBC News, Kuala Lampur, Malay. A new report out this morning from Food Bank's Canada says the country's hunger crisis continues to deepen. The charitable organization says monthly visits in March of this year were up by 5% over 2024, and visits have nearly doubled since the months leading up to the pandemic. The new study 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-employment. workers and to increase the Canada disability benefit, which was introduced this past July. Now to Jamaica. That's from 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, 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 tonight, Melissa is expected to head toward Cuba and then on to the Bahamas. Melissa is being called the strongest hurricane to hit Jamaica since records began dating back to 1851. A Victorian man is telling the story of how he fell victim to one of Canada's biggest ever bank scams. The Canadian and Sr. 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 the details. Can't think of anything else, day in and day out. 89-year-old Ray Anhalt 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, 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 The World This Hour. You can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts. The World This Hour is updated every hour seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings. Oh, day.