The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/27 at 13:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/27 at 13:00 EDT

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Stephanie Skanderas. Doug Ford says the anti-tariff ad that aired south of the border achieved its goal beyond his wildest dreams. The Ontario Premier insists the commercial started a conversation in the U.S. that wasn't happening there before. Ford says the ad had over a billion views and was shared around the world. It also provoked the fury of Donald Trump, who broke off trade talks and ordered tariffs on Canada raised by 10%. You know why President Trump's so upset

right now because it was effective. It was working. It woke up the whole country. There isn't probably, unless you're living underneath a rock down there, probably there isn't one American that hasn't viewed it. On social media or on television. Ford says Prime Minister Mark Carney

saw the commercial before it was released. Both Carney and Trump took part in an economic summit in Asia but did not meet face-to-face. Trump says he has no plans to meet with the PM. A tax credit for personal support workers will be part of next week's budget.

Jobs Minister, Patty Heidu, made the announcement in Ottawa surrounded by a group of PSWs. 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. The tax credit will be in place for the next five years.

Personal support workers will be able to claim 5% of their eligible earnings up to $1,100. It'll be available in provinces that don't have an agreement with Ottawa to increase wages for PSWs. The budget will also boost a program that helps unions fund apprenticeships and purchase training equipment. Police in Longay, just outside Montreal, say they have arrested a 33-year-old woman after a newborn was abandoned at a bus stop and died. The woman is in hospital as police continue their investigation. As the CBC's Rowan Kennedy reports, this isn't the first abandoned newborn recently found in the area.

The newborn baby was found around 6.30 this morning. Long gay police say a passerby called 911. They rushed to the scene and first responders performed CPR on the baby before it was sent to the hospital. Long ago, police have confirmed that the baby has died. There are big questions police are hoping to answer. How long was the baby out in the cold? Was it minutes? Was it hours?

And how exactly did they end up there? This is just 10 minutes away from where another newborn was abandoned on a doorstep just three weeks ago here in Langeu. As police try to understand exactly what happened, they plan to review surveillance footage and speak to possible witnesses. They're asking anyone with information to come forward. The number of food bank visits in Canada has doubled since before the pandemic. That's according to a new report from Food Bank's Canada.

Neil Hetherington is with Toronto's Daily Bread Food Bank. He says this number is a reflection of larger problems. The first is the lack of affordable housing. We get that solved. Then we start to see a reduction in 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 candidate disability program is wholly adequate

so that if you're living with a disability, you're not legislated to live in poverty. The new study says one third of those now using food banks across the country are children, one in five, are working adults. Hurricane Melissa nears Jamaica as a powerful Category 5 storm. It's threatening to bring catastrophic flooding, landslides, and widespread damage to the nation. Prime Minister Andrew Holness is ordering communities

along the South Coast to be evacuated. By all assessments of the current situation, while we pray for the best, all by all, it is becoming apparent that the impact of Hurricane Melissa could be greater than Hurricane Burial, certainly in terms of rainfall and flooding. Melissa is expected to make landfall on Tuesday. The slow-moving storm has already killed at least three people in Haiti and a fourth in the Dominican Republic. And that's the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Stephanie Scandaris. Thank you.