The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/27 at 11:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/27 at 11:00 EDT

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. A new report from Food Bank's Canada says the country's hunger crisis is getting worse. The charitable organization says monthly visits in March is up this year by more than 5% over 2024. And visits have nearly doubled compared to the months leading up to the pandemic. Neil Hetherington is with Toronto's daily-bred food bank. He says these numbers will only keep growing until larger societal issues are addressed.

The first is the lack of affordable housing. We get that solved, then we start to see a reduction, the number of people that need the food bank. The second is income supports. We want to make sure that the Ontario Disability Support Program is appropriate and that the Canada Disability Program is wholly adequate so that if you're living with a disability, you're not letting. legislated to live in poverty. The new study says one-third of those now using food banks across the country are children, and one in five are working adults. Prime Minister Mark Carney says he was

offered no 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 the cold shoulder is related to the anti-tariff ad campaign. Ontario's been running in the United States. But Carney's insisting he didn't come to the summit to talk trade with the Americans. 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 looking to finalize a new Canada-Azian free trade agreement by next year, and he said it could add as much as a billion dollars a year to the Canadian economy. From Kuala Lampur, Karnia is now flying this week to Singapore and then to South Korea. We're getting another preview today of some of the initiatives the federal government will be rolling out in next week's budget, and one of them is a tax credit for personal support workers. Here's jobs minister, Patty Heidu. Now you hear that clapping, and that's the sound of victory for folks that have worked so hard and lobbied so hard to have their profession recognized as essential to the economy of Canada.

That's high-do making today's announcement in Ottawa, surrounded by a group of PSWs. The tax credit is temporary, but for the next five years, PSWs will be able to claim 5% of their eligible earnings up to $1,100. 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 now on the verge of losing its international status as a measles-free country. Lauren Pally 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. And that is The World This Hour. You can listen to us wherever you get your podcast. The World This Hour is updated every hour seven days a week. And, of course, for news anytime, go to our website, cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.