The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/03 at 05:00 EST

Episode Date: November 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/03 at 05:00 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. Bro.C.a. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Neil Hurland. Voters in Montreal have elected a former Chilean refugee as their next mayor. Soraya Martinez-Ferada was a federal cabinet minister in the Trudeau government. Now she'll take on Montreal's top job. Sarah Levitt has more. Soraya Martinez-Ferada is the new mayor-elect of Montreal. At her headquarters, orders elation. Martinez Farada fled Chile with her family at just eight years old, coming to Montreal as political refugees.

She went into community work before being elected as a Montreal city counselor in 2000. In 2019, she made the leap to federal politics, becoming a liberal MP, serving in Justin Trudeau's cabinet. We are here tonight because thousands of Montrealers believe in a better city, a city that truly belongs to everyone. Her campaign emphasized the need for change, saying she would incentivize private developers in order to build faster, making housing more affordable and accessible. She's the first Latino to be elected mayor of Montreal and only the second woman. Valerie Plante, at the helm of the city for eight years under the Project Morial banner, opted not to run again.

Sarah Levitt's CBC News, Montreal. The Ontario government is sitting on a secret stash of booze worth nearly $80 million. dollars. That's the wholesale cost of millions of bottles of beer, wine, and liquor pulled from LCBO shelves back in March as part of the ongoing U.S. Canada trade fight. But as Colin Butler reports, details about the booze are being held from the public. Just ludicrous. Toronto Metropolitan University Professor James Turk is blunt. He's an expert on censorship and government transparency, and he's calling the Ontario government out. To claim that what their inventory of American wine and liquor is, is a cabinet confidence is bizarre and outrageous. The LCBO is sitting on

almost $80 million in American booze, pulled from the shelves in March as part of the ongoing U.S. Canada trade fight. When CBC asked for details under the Freedom of Information Act, it took 64 days to respond, twice the legal limit. 50 pages eventually came back, but most of them were blacked out. How much booze is expiring, how much has been destroyed, the cost of it all redacted. In Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, similar stockpile information is public. The Premier's office, the Ministry of Finance, and the LCBO did not respond to a request for comment. Colin Butler, CBC News, London, Ontario. British police have charged a 32-year-old man with attempted murder over a mass stabbing attack on a train this weekend.

The attack wounded 11 people. British transport police say Anthony Williams is charged with 10 counts of attempted murder, one of bodily harm, and one of possession of a weapon. Authorities say they're not treating the stabbings as an act of terror. Israel says the bodies that it received from Hamas on Sunday are from three Israeli soldiers. That confirmation means there are now eight bodies of hostages yet to be returned from Gaza. Crystal Gamansing reports from Jerusalem. Sarah Davies says the International Committee of the Red Cross takes the responsibility of its work

facilitating handovers as a neutral party with care. When each hostage and remains of hostages are returned home, what it means for their families. Every few days, more bodies are handed over. A slow recovery and return process that's exerted pressure on a fragile peace. Not all of the bodies have. have been hostages, with accusations that Hamas is playing games. The three bodies returned last night are from the deceased list. 20 of 28 have now been returned.

As of Harmony, Os Daniel, and Omer Nutra were soldiers killed October 7th during the Hamas-led attacks on Israel, killed in what Israel defense forces called defensive battles, and then their remains kidnapped and taken into Gaza. Crystal commencing, CBC News, Jerusalem. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland.