The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/29 at 22:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 30, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/29 at 22:00 EDT

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I'm Neil Hurland. Ontario Premier Doug Ford is calling out the U.S. Ambassador to Canada after Pete Hoekstra delivered an obscenity-laced tirade triggered by the province's anti-tarifat. Karina Roman has reaction. Come on, Ambassador. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says, U.S. ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, might be ticked off, but he should know better than to publicly

lambast Ontario's trade representative to Washington. And Ford says Hoekster should call David Patterson to apologize and that the ambassador shouldn't be so mad about Ontario's ad. What do they expect me to do? Sit back and roll over like every other person in the world? I'm going to fight like I've never fought before. Ford was also asked how he knows the prime minister saw the ad before it aired. He said, He says he was with him at the time. I'm not going to talk about our private conversation at all. I told them that we're running it. I'm going to cut it off on Monday.

Man, it was the right thing to do. It stirred a conversation like I've never seen before. Ford says the job and inflation numbers in the U.S. are proving that a tariff on Canada is a tax on Americans. Karina Roman, CBC News, Ottawa. The Bank of Canada lowered interest rates once again this morning. The central bank's key overnight lending rate now sits at 2.5. percent. Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Maclum says the trade conflict with the U.S. has diminished

Canada's economic prospects. The threat of a general strike in Alberta is on the table, sort of. A handful of unions in the province say they're gauging members' interest in a general strike, all in response to back-to-work legislation forcing striking teachers back to school tomorrow. Sam Samson has more. We will begin the process of organizing towards a potential general strike in Alberta. The Alberta Federation of Labor makes it official. A province-wide shutdown is possible. But the group, which represents several unions in Alberta, says it's not pulling the trigger yet. Gil McGowan is Federation president.

So if we're going to do this, we're going to do it up big. And that means time for democratic discussions with our organizations. The Federation has hinted at the possibility of a general general. strike for days, even before the not-withstanding clause was used to enforce back-to-work legislation. Maloney Vajekumar is an Ottawa-based labor lawyer. You can't be bluffing about a general strike for weeks on end. But I think it is fair to be gauging the population's temperature on this. She says Alberta's use of the notwithstanding clause to block court challenges during a labor

dispute is one to watch, because this could set a bargaining precedent for unions and provinces across Canada. Sam Sampson, CBC News, Edmonton. In Brazil, police say more than 130 people are dead. After a massive raid on a drug gang in Rio, it's the deadliest police operation the city has ever seen. Cameron McIntosh reports. Authorities are calling the raid which left dozens dead and dozens more injured, a large-scale security operation,

to counter the expansion of the criminal organization, Commando Vremelo, also known as Red Command, which controls much of the drug trade in Brazil. About 2,500 civil and military police officers were involved, police using drones, helicopters, and more than 30 armored vehicles, the gang, fighting back with armed drones. We are carrying out the largest operation in history, said Rio State Governor Claudio Castro,

as he framed this as a fight against narco-terrorism, but could not say for certain that non-gang members weren't also caught up in it. If there's any error in classification, he said, it's certainly residual, which is insignificant. The UN Human Rights Council and Brazilian human rights groups condemn the raid as excessive and demanded investigations. Cameron McIntosh, CBC News, Winnipeg. In baseball news, it's game five of the World Series tonight. The Toronto Blue Jays are playing the L.A. Dodgers right now.

The Jays are ahead 3-1 in the top of the seventh inning. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland.