The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/28 at 19:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/28 at 19:00 EDT

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. from cbic news the world this hour i'm stephani scandaris students and teachers in alberta are heading back to school on wednesday the province passing its back-to-work legislation early this morning but as aaron collins reports the teachers say their battle with the government isn't over we will pursue everything that we can and leave no stone unturned jason shilling says teachers aren't done fighting the head of the Alberta Teachers Association pushing back against back-to-work legislation. We will challenge this legislation in the courts, in our communities, and the very conscience of Albertans.

The law passed early this morning invokes the notwithstanding clause, a move designed to prevent challenges to its constitutionality, leaving some parents with mixed feelings. Why they have to go back tomorrow? I don't really agree with how that was done, but yeah, I guess we'll see how things go. Teachers will be heading back to class two facing familiar challenges. We have a lot of kids, complexities and classrooms, lots of kids with learning disabilities, and a lot of needs that aren't being met right now. Nearly 750,000 Alberta kids have been out of school since October 6th.

Erin Collins, CBC News, Calgary. Hurricane Melissa has been downgraded to a category four after making landfall in Jamaica, but it's still the strongest recorded storm to hit the island. A third of residents are without power. Thousands are in shelters. Nessa for Mugendi 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. Tomside, sustained wings 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. Israeli planes pounded targets in Gaza after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered new strikes on the territory. The Israeli military accuses Hamas of violating the ceasefire by attacking its forces east of the agreed deployment line. Hamas denies it carried out the attack and says it's committed to the ceasefire. The militant group also warns any escalation in fighting

will delay the search and recovery of the bodies of deceased Israeli hostages. The Conservative Party is hoping all parties come together to back its bill that tackles 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. 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 Kuguktak, and he picked out it jiluk, 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 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. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, Toronto. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Stephanie Scandaris.