The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/27 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/27 at 12:00 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 out today from food banks canada says the country's hunger crisis continues to deepen 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 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. Here's the 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. 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. Carney leaves Kuala Lampur today for Singapore, from there he flies to South Korea for the APEC summit. 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.

The teachers have been off the job now for three weeks, with class size among the key issues dividing the two sides, depending how fast it takes for the bill to get through the legislature, it's possible the teachers could be back at work by Thursday or Friday of this week. Now to Jamaica. That's a scene along the Kingston waterfront as Hurricane Melissa approaches. It has 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. Melissa is being called the most powerful hurricane to hit Jamaica since records started being recorded back in 1851. It's a slow-moving storm that killed at least three people in Haiti over the weekend and a fourth person in the Dominican Republic. Game three of the World Series goes tonight in California. with the Dodgers at home against your Toronto Blue Jays. The best of seven tied at one win apiece. And Toronto manager John Schneider is saying the game plan is pretty straightforward. At this point, you know, it's going to be all hands on deck.

You know, these guys are going to, I think everyone will be able to throw three days in a row. Starting pitching is going to be important for both sides, for sure. And guys that can throw multiple innings are going to be important in these next three days. But I think especially against this team, you want to try to wear down their starters and get into their pen. The next three games of the series will be played in Los Angeles. Veteran Max Scher gets to start tonight for the Jays. It's Tyler Glasno for the Dodgers. Glasnow's been almost untouchable so far in the postseason.

Over 13 innings of work, he's allowed just one earned run while racking up 18 strikeouts. And that is The World This Hour. For news any time, go to our website, CBCNews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings. Thank you.