The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/30 at 00:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 30, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/30 at 00:00 EDT

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We begin with Breaking Baseball news from Los Angeles. The Toronto Blue Jays have just won game five of the World Series. With a 6-1 victory over the L.A. Dodgers, the Jays are now one win away from becoming World Series champions. The CBC's Jamie Strasson reports from Los Angeles tonight. night. A historic performance by rookie sensation, Trey Yusavage has the Toronto Blue Jays on the cusp of a World Series crown. In a word, Yassavich was sensational. The 22-year-old making only his eighth major league start struck out 12 and surrendered only one run over seven masterful innings. The 12 strikeouts the most by a rookie pitcher in World Series history. Offensively

for the Blue Jays, it was again Vladimir Guerrero Jr. who led the way. Guerrero and Davis Schneider hit back-to-back home runs in the first inning, and the Jays never looked back, cruising to a 6-1 win in front of a disheartened crowd at Dodgers Stadium. After the game, fans in attendance crowded behind the Blue Jay dugout, chanting Vladdy as the All-Star first baseman did an interview. The series now heads back to Toronto for game 6 Friday. The Jays have a chance to win the franchise's third world series and the first since 1993. Jamie Strasson, CBC News, Los Angeles.

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-tariffad. 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 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 Wednesday. The central bank's key overnight lending rate now sits at 2.5%. Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklam says the trade conflict with the U.S.

has diminished Canada's economic prospects, warning that interest rate cuts can only do so much to stimulate the economy. 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 in response to back-to-work legislation forcing striking teachers back to school. Sam Sampson 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 strike for days.

Even before the notwithstanding clause was used to enforce. back-to-work legislation. Maloney Vijay Kumar 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. And that is your world this hour. I'm Neil Hurlent.