The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/28 at 17:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/28 at 17:00 EDT

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. from cbc news the world this hour i'm stephani scanderas hurricane melissa has lost some of its ferocity after it made landfall in jamaica but it still remains a highly dangerous category four storm the strongest to hit the island in modern history thousands of people are in shelters and a third of residents are without power nessa for mcgendi is head of the caribbean delegation of the red cross he says the potential danger goes far beyond the immediate threat of wind damage and rainfall. Storm side, sustained winds could also cause extensive infrastructure damage, isolating communities and cutting off essential services for days and if not weeks. The humanitarian threat is severe and is immediate. The Red Cross estimates more than half of Jamaica's population will be directly affected by the storm. 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 car.

or former intimate partner as first-degree murder. Caputo says the bill is non-partisan, and he hopes it can be passed quickly. Classes will resume tomorrow in Alberta's public schools. The union representing the province's teachers says they will comply with the government's back-to-work order, but it says all workers should be concerned by the province's use of the notwithstanding clause. This legislation imposes a contract that nearly 90% of teachers voted against. Amazon is laying off thousands of people. The company says corporate jobs are being cut so it can spend more on artificial intelligence. As Nisha Patel reports, Amazon is investing tens of billions of dollars in AI.

Amazon is cutting 14,000 jobs in its corporate division out of about 350,000 roles. Most workers will be given 90 days to look for a new position internally. Ian Lee is a management professor at Carlton University. constantly figuring out which part of the company is growing and needs more resources. And so I think this is a strategic response. The company says it needs a leaner, more nimble organization in order to take advantage of developments in artificial intelligence, calling it the most transformative technology since the internet. And so AI is going to be very disruptive, but it's just not going to be uniform

across the board and affect everybody equally. Some will lose their jobs. Amazon has been racing to invest in AI. as it faces increased competition, the company had forecast $100 billion in capital spending this year. Nisha Patel, CBC News, Toronto. 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...

...that it would have been dark part of the year. And 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 Scandaris. In context