The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/28 at 01:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/28 at 01:00 EDT

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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 not-withstanding clause of the Canadian Constitution. Aaron Collins has more. 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 Nehead 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-taxie. 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 his 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. 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, 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 2020.

and could be the most powerful ever to hit Jamaica. Hurricane Melissa is a Category 5 storm, and it will make landfall Tuesday. Nick Davis reports from Jamaica tonight. Hurricane Melissa is slowly turning inland towards Jamaica, but as the storm continues west, it's placed areas that we're expecting heavy impacts to lessen in severity and others to now face the full brunt of this Category 5 hurricane. The drift has allowed it to build an intensity over the sea

and take the capital Kingston home to nearly a million people out of the impact area and the major wind field. Instead, areas along the south coast, the central rural communities in the interior, and the coastal resort areas like Nagler and Montego Bay are expected to see greater hurricane conditions. With much of the emergency response based around the capital, this could leave some communities isolated for days

and without power, for weeks. That's freelance journalist Nick Davis in Kingston, Jamaica tonight. In Major League Baseball, it's game three tonight of the World Series, and what a nail-biter. The Toronto Blue Jays are playing the L.A. Dodgers right now. The game is tied 5-5 in extra innings. Right now, the Dodgers are at bat in the bottom of the 13th.

The series is tied at one game apiece. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland. Thank you.