The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/29 at 06:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 29, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/29 at 06:00 EDT

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and a digital business library full of on-demand resources. Benefit together with Chambers Plan. Learn more at hellochambers.ca. from cbc news it's the world this hour i'm joe cummings we start with hurricane melissa which is roaring now through eastern cuba as a category three storm it's a video showing people wading through ankle-deep water as it rushes into doorways at least least 700,000 people across the country are being moved now to higher ground. Meanwhile, in Jamaica, emergency officials are in the process of evaluating the damage from Melissa's arrival

yesterday afternoon. It made land as a category five, swamping coastal communities and knocking out power. At least 500,000 people are without electricity this morning with schools and businesses closed and hospitals damaged. Claiming that Hamas has violated the Gaza ceasefire, Israel has carried out a new round of air strikes that Palestinian officials are saying have claimed at least 81 lives in the territory. Crystal Gamansing has more now from Jerusalem. Gaza City was the first hit Tuesday night. Palestinian Red Crescent workers were filmed searching the rubble. One woman was carried out to the street on a stretcher. At a hospital in Han Yunus, the dead are unloaded, followed by a flood of grief. Two older women

fold over a gurney grasping at a body wrapped in a white shroud. U.S. President Donald Trump, speaking on board Air Force One, said the ceasefire is not at risk. They killed an Israeli soldier, so the Israelis hit back, and they should hit back. Johan Feldbaum, a 37-year-old reservist, was killed in Rafa Tuesday, inside Israeli-held territory. It's the second deadly attack on Israelis in the South during the ceasefire. Hamas is accused. in both attacks, but denies any involvement. Crystal Gamanssing, CBC News, Jerusalem.

The Bank of Canada makes its October interest rate setting later this morning, with most analysts expecting to see another rate cut. But as we hear now from Peter Armstrong, the central bank continues to insist that it will take more than falling interest rates to boost economic growth. Bank of Canada, Governor Tiff Macklin, has made it clear. There's only so much the central bank can do to help Canada get out of the current crisis. While monetary policy can't offset the negative effects of tariffs, positive structural reform could. Interest rates may lessen the burden for households and businesses, but Macklems says what's needed now is fiscal policy,

the building of major infrastructure projects to help diversify the Canadian economy. We could have done this without U.S. tariffs. But the loss of incomes and growth now makes this all the more imperative. All the more imperative because even if Canada has avoided an outright recession, Desjardins, Deputy Chief Economist, Randall Bartlett, says the economy is only forecast to grow by a tiny amount. So the Canadian economy is quite weak. So he says the bank will likely cut rates this morning, but also make it clear. It's waiting to see where and how aggressively the federal government spends in next week's budget.

Peter Armstrong, CBC News, Toronto. Now to baseball and good news from Los Angeles, the Blue Jays beat the Dodgers last night, 6 to 2, evening the World Series at two wins apiece. Here's Thomas Dagla. Well, what a difference 24 hours makes after that marathon, six and a half hour defeat to the L.A. Dodgers here at Dodgers Stadium in game three. The Jays bounced back in game four and made relatively quick work of their opponents. Shohay Otani on the mound starting pitching for the Dodgers.

But Shohei Otani, the batter, was mostly neutralized by the Blue Jays going 0 for 3 at the plate. Then in the seventh inning, a flurry of offense from the Blue Jays. The Jays would never look back after that. a good pitching outing as well by starting pitcher Shane Bieber and the Jays have tied up the series at two games each, which it guarantees a couple things. This series is guaranteed to return to Toronto on Friday, and if there is a game seven, it will be in Toronto on Saturday. This is now a best of three. Whichever team takes two games now will win the World Series. Thomas Dagg, CBC News, Los Angeles.

And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.