The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/27 at 21:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/27 at 21:00 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 the world this hour i'm neil hurland the alberta government has tabled back-to-work legislation to end the strike by 51,000 teachers in the province

the government of premier daniel smith is also preemptively stopping a potential court challenge of the legislation by using the notwithstanding clause of the canadian constitution erin collins has more we know and feel like this is the right bargaining decision. Danielle Smith defending her decision to fast-track back-to-work legislation for teachers. Alberta's Premier using the notwithstanding clause to prevent a challenge to the law, forcing teachers to take a deal they'd overwhelmingly rejected. Many of the teachers who've contacted us, I think it's fair. And I think most of all, it's fair to the students who are the ones who are most impacted.

Teachers were pushing the province, among other things, for caps on class sizes. The province refused and forced them, back to work. NDP opposition leader Nahed Nenshi says using the notwithstanding clause is a mistake. They could have done it by enforcing binding arbitration. They've taken the nuclear option on something that they could have avoided. Alberta's teachers walked off the job on October 6th. The government hopes to get kids back to school by Wednesday. Aaron Collins, CBC News, Calgary. The Premier of Ontario says he showed his now infamous anti-tarifat to Prime Minister Mark Carney. Doug Ford also says he has support from other Canadian leaders.

The TV commercial was blasted by U.S. President Donald Trump and has tanked trade talks. Kate McKenna has reaction. Did we get our money worth? Oh my goodness. Did we get our money's worth? Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he has no regrets after his province's anti-tariff ad prompted U.S. President Donald Trump to torpedo trade negotiations and threaten higher tariffs on Canadian goods.

Do you know why President Trump's so upset right now? because it was effective. It was working. It woke up the whole country. Ford says he has the support of most of his fellow premiers and claims that Prime Minister Mark Carney and his chief of staff saw the ad before it aired. Carney was in Malaysia today, selling Canada as a reliable trading partner at the ASEAN summit. He told reporters Ottawa and Washington were close to a deal on steel, aluminum, and energy before this blow up. Trump has called the ad a fraud and says he's done dealing with Carney for now. as punishment for running the ad over the weekend, including during the World Series.

Kate McKenna, CBC News, Ottawa. The polls are now closed across Nunavut, and the counting is underway in a territorial election. There are no political parties in Nunavut, and the Premier will be selected by the politicians who get elected tonight. You can find the results on our webpage. It's the strongest hurricane of 2025 and could be the most powerful ever to hit Jamaica. Hurricane Melissa is a category. Five Storm, forcing airports to close and communities to evacuate.

Paul Hunter reports. As Melissa's winds gain strength and ferocity, Jamaicans brace and flee. Our residents, our resident, evacue is to eye across. Everyone needs to get ready. Anyone in low-lying areas directed in no small way to run for their lives. Jamaica's Prime Minister Andrew Holness put in. bluntly. You have been warned. So it's now up to you to use that information to make the right decisions. As Jamaicans prepare, forecasts predict a complete horror show with sustained winds

up to 280 kilometers an hour, more than a meter of rain, a storm surge up to four meters. With the storm now poised to strike, Jamaicans in its path, await. Paul Hunter, CBC News, Washington. In Major League Baseball, it's game three tonight of the world series. The Toronto Blue Jays are playing the L.A. Dodgers right now. The Dodgers are leading 2-0 in the bottom of the third inning. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland. Thank you.