The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/03 at 02:00 EST

Episode Date: November 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/03 at 02:00 EST

This ascent isn't for everyone. You need grit to climb this high this often. You've got to be an underdog that always over-delivers. You've got to be 6,500 hospital staff, 1,000 doctors, all doing so much with so little. You've got to be Scarborough. Defined by our uphill battle and always striving towards new heights. And you can help us keep climbing.

Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. from CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. A former Trudeau cabinet minister will be the next mayor of Montreal. Montreal, I'm Montreal. Mexico news projects that Soraya Martinez-Ferrida will be the winner of Sunday's municipal election. She delivered her victory speech tonight. We are here tonight because thousands of Montreal. believe in a better city, a city that truly belongs to everyone. And this momentum for change arose in every neighborhood of the city from east to west, north to south.

Martinez Ferrada will succeed Montreal mayor Valerie Plante, who decided not to run again. Martinez Ferrada served as the Federal Tourism Minister until last winter. She was born in Chile and came to Canada as a refugee. Meantime, Bruno Marchant has been re-elected, of Quebec City, with a campaign promise to make the city more appealing to young people. That's our goal to give the key to the city of our youth people. We need to build the city here, looking forward, not looking backward.

CBC News also projects that Catherine Furnier will be re-elected mayor of Lungay. Stefan Boyer has been re-elected as mayor of Laval, and CBC News projects Moad-Marquis-Bissonnette will be re-elected as mayor of Gatnow. For all the results from the Quebec Municipal Elections, click on our website, cbcnews.ca.ca. The federal government collected over $3 billion from U.S. counter tariffs between March and September of this year, but that amount is substantially less than what the Liberals had forecast during the spring election campaign. Darren Major reports. $3 billion is a fraction of the 20 billion the Liberal Election platform estimated would be collected this fiscal year.

While the fiscal period officially ends in March, Prime Minister Mark Carney removed a swath of tariffs starting in September. He said at the time, removing the tariffs would help advance trade talks with the U.S. But a deal has yet to be finalized. Now the liberals are set to table a budget, and Carney has signaled the deficit will be larger than the last fiscal update. When asked about the revenue loss from removing the tariffs, finance minister Francois-Ferilippe-Champaign, defended the move. Things change quickly. We always need to adapt and review our posture, but what we're doing is to support Canadian industry. Catherine Cobden, President of the Canadian Steel Producers Association, says she's not surprised by the $3 billion figure.

She argues exemptions should have only been granted to products that can't be produced in Canada. We really need to fix the remission process in our country. It is broken. But Bill Robson from the C.D. Howe Institute argues that tariffs hurt the economy and are a bad way to boost the federal coffers. We do need to raise revenue, but there are less painful ways of doing it. tariffs are a very damaging way of raising revenue. Darren Major, CBC News, Ottawa. A quarter of the population in Newfoundland and Labrador is now 65 and older, according to Stats Canada. Seniors groups and researchers say it will put pressure on the health care system and housing

as older adults struggle to keep up with the cost of living. Heather Gillis has more. People think when you get 65, 60, you're not good for nothing or nobody. 84-year-old Bob Burton in St. John says seniors have contributed a lot to Newfoundland and Labrador. They put dappins on the trees, berries on the ground. Statistics Canada says for the first time, a quarter of people in the province are now 65 or older. Kimberly Leonard is the CEO of Seniors Anil.

She says this gray wave will put a strain on health care. But the biggest problem she says is the high cost of living, hits seniors hard, with some unable to meet their basic needs. We have people who call, what do I do? I'm getting evicted in five days because I cannot pay my rent. So where do I go? A lot of people saw this coming. Karen Dutie is the director of the Aging Research Center at Memorial University's Grenfell campus.

She says an aging population also brings opportunities. We have a large segment of our population that has just an abundance of wisdom, knowledge, and lived experience that they are more than willing to share. Heather Gillis, CBC News, St. John's. We're following a deadly earthquake in Afghanistan. The Taliban government says 20 people were killed and 320 injured after a magnitude 6.3 quake hit near Mazari Sharif. And that is your world this hour.

For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland.