The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/28 at 03:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/28 at 03:00 EDT

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I'm Neil Hurland. The Alberta government is ordering striking teachers back to work, introducing a bill that will see students and teachers return to school in the coming days. But as Julia Wong reports, there's anger over how the government is doing it. It also invokes the notwithstanding clause to help ensure stability for the school system moving forward. Booze and jeers, as the Alberta government tables bill too

to force 51,000 striking teachers back to work. Ending a three-week-long strike. The province will impose the last contract offer teachers overwhelmingly rejected, and it's using the notwithstanding clause to protect the bill from a charter challenge, Alberta Premier Daniel Smith. And this is a unique strike. We've never had 51,000 workers off the job at the same time. The Alberta Teachers Association is angry.

And exploring legal options, says President Jason Schilling. And I'll tell you right now, if they think by what they have done here today, is going to quiet down the tens of thousands of voices of teachers across this province, then they're sorely mistaken. Students and teachers are expected to be back in schools Wednesday. Julia Wong, CBC News, Edmonton. Hurricane Melissa is approaching the coast of Jamaica and is expected to make landfall today. It was just a tropical storm this past weekend.

but it grew into a hurricane with winds of 225 kilometers per hour. Anayat Singh has more. We've had five hurricanes and now four of them have undergone this extreme rapid intensification. Shell Winkley is an expert with Climate Central, a New Jersey-based science nonprofit that's analyzing the rapid strengthening of Hurricane Melissa, which it says is fueled by an overheating planet. This is something that we didn't see a couple decades ago, but that we're now seeing at least every season.

Hurricanes derive energy from the heat in ocean water and ocean temperatures in the Caribbean are unusually high, about 2 to 3 degrees above normal. Oceans absorb excess heat from the atmosphere, which has been warming because of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. Last year saw the highest average ocean temperatures on record globally. Experts say it's a warning sign that the overheated oceans will continue leading to more and more destructive hurricanes. In Ayat Singh, CBC News, Toronto. Japanese media say the man accused of killing former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has just pleaded guilty to the crime. Tetsuya Yamagami is appearing in court today. He's charged with murder in connection with the assassination three years ago. The stakes are high as U.S. President Donald Trump is slated to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the APEC summit in South Korea later this week.

As Lisa Singh reports, China is going in with significant leverage. to have respect for strong leaders. Zetsun Wang, a fellow at the Beijing-based think tank, Center for China and Globalization says U.S. President Donald Trump does not have much leverage. Utilizing its unique advantages in the global supply chains seem to have worked very well. Those advantages include having a near monopoly on rare earth minerals

essential to everything from smartphones to electric vehicles, materials on which China has threatened to tighten export rules. The latest escalation in a months-long truce after Trump started his global trade war. Now, officials have just reached a framework agreement, which will see China delay that measure, start buying U.S. soybeans again, and finalize an agreement on U.S. ownership of TikTok, brokered by Chinese Vice Premier Hele Feng and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson. Lisa Singh, CBC News, Toronto. and finally we've got breaking baseball news from los angeles the dodgers win it and they take a two to one lead

in the world series the l a dodgers have just beaten the toronto blue jays six five in game three of the world series it was one of the longest world series games in history the game was tied until the 18th inning and that is your world this hour for cbc news i'm neil hurland Thank you.