World Report - October 28: Tuesday's top stories in 10 minutes

Episode Date: October 28, 2025

Hurricane Melissa bears down on Jamaica and threatens to be the island's strongest recorded storm. Alberta government forces striking teachers back to work through notwithstanding clause. Lawyers say underfunded courts responsible for Ontario class action lawsuit stuck in the civil system for nearly 8 years.14 people were killed in US military strikes on boats in the eastern Pacific.Prime Minister Mark Carney hoping for a relations reset in meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. US President Donald Trump praises new Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, while reaffirming US-Japan trade agreement.Toronto Blue Jays look to even out the World Series tonight in Los Angeles, after a historic Game 3 at Dodgers Stadium.

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. This is a CBC podcast. This is World Report. Good morning. I'm Angie Seth. Hurricane Melissa is about to make landfall in Jamaica. People are being told to seek shelter and prepare for life-threatening flooding and storm surge. Michael Brennan is director of the National Hurricane Center. This is going to lead to widespread infrastructure damage, prolonged power outages, communication outages, and isolated.

communities. It's going to be a very dangerous post-storm environment. On Saturday morning, Melissa, was just a tropical storm. Now it is forecast to be the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the country. As Anait Singh reports, the storm's rapid growth has the fingerprints of climate change all over it. We've had five hurricanes, and now four of them have undergone this extreme rapid intensification. Shell Winkley is an expert with Climate Central, a New Jersey-based science nonprofit that's analyzing the rapid strengthening of Hurricane Melissa, which it says is fueled by an overheating planet. This is something that we didn't see a couple decades ago, but that we're now seeing

at least every season, if not even multiple times this season. Hurricanes derive energy from the heat in ocean water, and ocean temperatures in the Caribbean are unusually high, about two to three degrees above normal. Oceans absorb excess heat from the atmosphere, which has been warming because of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. Akshay Devaras, a researcher at the UK's National Center for Atmospheric Science, also warns that the hurricane is moving very slowly over the ocean, giving it more time to gather strength.

This is making the tropical cyclone very, very dangerous. Because if a tropical cyclone is moving slowly, then it means that whenever it will start dumping rain over Jamaica, it will give more chance for a lot of rainfall to happen. Last year saw the highest average ocean temperatures on record global. Experts say it's a warning sign that the overheated oceans will continue leading to more and more destructive hurricanes. In Ayat Singh, CBC News, Toronto.

Back here at home, the Alberta government says teachers must go back to work in the early hours this morning. Premier Daniel Smith's government passed Bill 2 to order 51,000 striking educators back into the classrooms. And they did it by using the Charter's Northwithstanding Clause. Julia Wong reports. It also invokes the not-wisement. standing clause to help ensure stability for the school system moving forward.

Booze and jeers, as the Alberta government tables bill too, to force 51,000 striking teachers back to work, ending a three-week-long strike that has kept about three-quarters of a million students home. I know this has been an incredibly difficult start to the school year for students who have already experienced too many disruptions. The province will impose the last contract offer teachers overwhelmingly rejected, and it's using the notwithstanding clause to protect the bill from a charter challenge, Alberta

Premier Daniel Smith. So this is a unique strike. We've never had 51,000 workers off the job at the same time. The Alberta Teachers Association is angry, and exploring legal options, says President Jason Schilling. And I'll tell you right now, if they think by what they have done here today is going to quiet down the tens of thousands of voices of teachers across this province, then they're sorely mistaken. The Alberta Federation of Labor calls it an assault on workers' rights. President Gil McGowan says it's considering province-wide job action. This is not a war that we chose,

but make no mistake. This government has declared war on working people, not just in this province, but across the country. The Alberta government says teachers could face fines if they do not comply. Students and teachers are expected to be back in schools Wednesday. Julia Wong, CBC News, Edmonton. People who lived at what were called training schools in Ontario are suing the province. They say physical and sexual abuse was rampant at the facilities that were essentially detention centers for children. Nearly eight years after a class action lawsuit was launched, the case is still stuck in the civil system. And as Michelle Allen reports, plaintiffs and lawyers say the lawsuit is another casualty of underfunded courts.

There was a lot of abuse and some people were destroyed by it. Justin says he was 13 years old when he was sent to Brookside school in Coburg, Ontario. The problem is that it never leaves you. He's one of thousands of children sent to detention centers intended to straighten out children labeled unmanageable, who were struggling in school or accused of petty crimes like vandalism. Former students launched a class action lawsuit against Ontario in 2017. It's been nearly eight years. They haven't got an apology or settlement yet.

The province declined a comment on the case but denied all liability in its statement of defense. Andrew Eckhart is a lawyer at the class action clinic at the University of Windsor. We're under-resourced. We just need to hire more judges. He says class actions like this one often take five to ten years or longer. Kirk Keeping was the original lead plaintiff. He died waiting. Eckart says this is common. And he never ever got an apology for anything that happened to him and it wrecked his life. Keeping sister, Paula Lacost, says she wonders if the class action did survivors more harm than good.

Oh, did my brother do this? for nothing. Like, did it bring up now their trauma again after so many years of shelving it away? LaGas says the court system needs to change. Without funding increases to hire more court staff, Eckhart says training school survivors still have a long way ahead of them. Michelle Allen, CBC News, Thunder Bay. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hetzeth said the U.S. military has carried out more military strikes on four boats in the eastern Pacific. He says the operation was targeting narco-terrorists. Fourteen people were killed in three separate strikes conducted in international waters.

Hegeseth says there was one survivor, and Mexican authorities assumed responsibility for coordinating the rescue. This is the first time the United States has announced multiple strikes in a single day. Prime Minister Mark Carney is onto the second lake of his Indo-Pacific tour. He's in Singapore, where he's already met with top government investment officials. And later on this week, Carney meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping. As Murray Brewster reports, the Prime Minister hopes that meeting will help reset Canada-China relations. It's the start of a broader discussion.

That is how Prime Minister Mark Carney describes his upcoming meeting with China's Xi Jinping at the Apex Summit. It's been a long time in coming. The last official meeting between a Canadian Prime Minister and China's top politician was in 2017. before relations went into a deep freeze over the arrest of a top Chinese tech executive, the detention of two Canadians, and before the latest trade fight, which has seen both Canada and China impose tariffs on one another over electric vehicles and canola. Carney is hoping for a reset.

You know, relationships rebuild over time when they have been, when they have changed, when they've changed for the worse. And so we have a lot of areas on which we can build. Much of what Carney hopes to accomplish, though, has the potential to be overshadowed or upended by U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump is also expected to meet Xi at the APEC summit, as the U.S. and China have agreed on a framework to settle their trade dispute, a deal that could have global implications. Marie Brewster, CBC News, Singapore. Going to go down as one of the great prime ministers you watch. Thank you. U.S. President Donald Trump praising Japanese Prime Minister Senei Takichi as they arrive at a naval base.

Trump is making a stop in Japan ahead of the APEC summit in South Korea later this week. A key part of this visit, beginning to build a relationship with the new prime minister. Both leaders today signed the implementation of a trade agreement. It reaffirmed the earlier framework by which the U.S. would tax imported Japanese goods at 15%. and the creation of a $550 billion fund for Japan to invest in the United States. Well, it took just six hours and 39 minutes, but the Los Angeles Dodgers now lead two games to one over the Toronto Blue Jays in the World Series. The Jays will look to bounce back and even things out tonight at Dodgers Stadium.

Thomas Dagler has more. After 18 innings of baseball and in front of a stadium full. of bleary-eyed fans, Freddie Freeman walked it off. Last year's World Series MVP, born to Canadian parents, Freeman blasted a solo homer to center field, claiming game three for the Dodgers 6 to 5. Oh my gosh, just fear, fear excitement. Freeman's game winner capped off a marathon

that lasted longer than two average big league games combined. A heartbreaking outcome for the Blue Jays, who earlier in the game saw slugger George Springer leave with pain in his right side. Jay's manager, John Schneider. The Dodgers didn't win the World Series today. They won a game, you know what I mean? Shoh! Amid it all, the sports biggest star, Shohay Otani,

belted four extra base hits, a feat unseen in the World Series since 1906. I want to go to sleep as soon as possible, he joked afterwards. And no wonder. Otani is set to start on the mound in game four tonight. Thomas Dagg, CBC News, Los Angeles. And that's the latest national and international news from World Report. I'm Angie Seth.

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