The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/03 at 07:00 EST

Episode Date: November 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/03 at 07:00 EST

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as part of its ongoing response to the trump tariffs the ontario government has pulled tens of millions of dollars worth of american alcohol from liquor stores right across the province other provinces have done the same thing but in ontario it's still not clear how big the stockpile is and what it costs to pull the booze from the shelves. Colin Butler explains. 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. Today is Election Day in Yukon. Three parties are in the running, the Liberals, the NDP, and the Yukon Party. And voters will also be asked a plebiscite question about whether they want to get rid of the current first-passed the post system and replace it with a ranked ballot. polling stations open at 8 a.m. Pacific time and close tonight at 8 p.m. Israel has now confirmed

that the three bodies received from Hamas over the weekend are all Israeli soldiers. The confirmation means that there are now the remains of eight hostages yet to be returned from Gaza. Crystal Gamansing reports now from Jerusalem. Sarah Davy says the International Committee of the Red Cross takes the responsibility of its work facilitating handovers as a neutral party, 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 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 hominy, Os Daniel, and Omer Neutra 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 Gamanscing, CBC News, Jerusalem. Now to Washington, where the U.S. government shutdown is now into its 34th day. And President Donald Trump continues to blame the Democrats. They become crazed lunatics. And all they have to do, Nora, is say, let's vote.

That's Trump appearing last night on the CBS News Program 60 Minutes. The Democrats are holding up a Republican spending bill because of the impact it will have on a number of health care programs. But Trump insists those concerns can all be sorted out later. So you're saying your plan is to tell the Democrats to vote to end the shutdown? Correct. very simple and that you will put forward a health care plan no we will work on fixing the bad health care that we have right now we have terrible health care at too expensive for the people today is the 34th day

of the shutdown that's one day short of the longest on record i was back in 2018 also when donald trump was in the white house and that is the world this hour you can listen to us wherever you get your podcast remember the world this hour is updated every hour seven day a week. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.