The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/28 at 13:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/28 at 13:00 EDT

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Stephanie Scanderas. The Conservative Party is introducing a bill aimed at tackling intimate partner violence. Bill C-225 would create specific offenses under the criminal code for this kind of violence. Conservative shadow minister for public safety, Frank Caputo, drafted the bill. When you assault an intimate partner, it's not just assault. It's assaulting somebody oftentimes who is in an emotional relationship. a physical relationship, a relationship of financial dependence. That's what distinguishes it from simple assault. And that's why we should be calling it criminal harassment of an intimate partner. The bill would also treat the murder of a current or former intimate partner as first-degree murder. Caputo says the bill is nonpartisan and he hopes it can be passed quickly.

Health Canada has approved a drug that targets the underlying cause of Alzheimer's disease. Lacanamap isn't a cure, but it can slow the proof. progression of the disease in its early stages. Healthcare professionals say the medication could be a game changer for some patients. So far, it's not covered by provincial insurance plans. It costs up to $30,000 a year in other countries. The Innu Nation of Lapprador has failed to ratify a settlement with Hydro-Keebec. Both Notwashish and Sheshadit had to have at least 50% voter turnout for the vote to pass.

Polls closed last night, but turnout fell short. Innu Nation's senior negotiator Peter Panashouet says the outcome is disappointing. That's a long process to get to where we are today, but people seem to think that there's a better deal to be had. The agreement would have seen Hydro-Cebec pay the Innu of Labrador $87 million over a 16-year period, as well as 3% of dividends from Churchill Falls' hydroelectric project. Panaschewa says now he doesn't know what the future holds. What could be the strongest storm to ever hit Jamaica is bearing down on the island. I don't believe there is any infrastructure within this region that could withstand the category five storm.

Jamaica's Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, acknowledges the extreme danger of Hurricane Melissa. Local officials are urging residents to rush to emergency shelters or shelter in place. Anne Claire Fontaine with the World Meteorological Organization warns of unprecedented flash floods and landslides. In the eyewall, the total structural failure is likely. I have never seen this sentence before. So it's a massive impact that he's expected to be in Jamaica. Melissa comes just over a year after Hurricane Beryl hit the island with around 200 million US dollars in damages.

The American military has carried out another round of military strikes on four boats in the eastern Pacific. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Higgseth says The operation was targeting narco-terrorists. 14 people were killed in the strikes, conducted in international waters. Hegset says there was one survivor who has since been picked up by the Mexican Navy. This is the first time the U.S. has announced multiple strikes in a single day. Canadian scientists have discovered and named a new species of rhino.

It has no horn, and it was found in a place you might not expect. Emily Chung has details. When scientists found the fossils of a rhino, a thousand kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, they imagined a shaggy animal. I wanted the artist to make the rhino look like a pony in the winter. Danielle Fraser is with the Canadian Museum of Nature. She led the study of the fossils from what is now Devon Island in Nunavut and identified them as a new species, named with the help of a local elder. And so we collaborated with Jarlu Kugtak, and he picked out Itjiluk, which means, frosty or frost. It's kind of a homage to it being from the Arctic in that cold environment.

The rhino lived 23 million years ago in a climate similar to modern-day Southern Ontario, but... It would have been dark part of the year. And that's... I think that that's a really interesting mystery about how some of these animals lived up there. This is the northernmost rhino ever found. Emily Chung, CBC News, Toronto. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Stephanie's Gendaris.