Your World Tonight - Ceasefire takes hold, postal workers back, Nobel Peace laureate isn’t Donald Trump, and more

Episode Date: October 10, 2025

The ceasefire in Gaza is in place. Now, thousands of people are on the move, trying to return to their homes, their lives. Aid groups are ready to bring in as much aid as possible, as soon as possible. And in Israel, the families of hostages are waiting to hear when their loved ones will come home. But still, there is fear and worry the deal won’t hold.And: The mail will start moving again. Postal workers say they will shift from a total strike to rotating work stoppages.Also: The winner of this year's Nobel Peace prize is… not U.S. President Donald Trump — despite the fact he openly campaigned for the honour. It went instead to Maria Corina Machado, known as Venezuela's Iron Lady.Plus: Letitia James indictment backlash, Canada adds 60,000 jobs, a small city on Vancouver Island is emerging as a new epicentre in Canada's toxic drug crisis, Taiwan’s National day, and more.

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We call for all crossings into Gaza to be open immediately so that humanitarian supplies can flow into the war-torn enclave. The ceasefire is in place. Now, thousands of people are on the move, trying to return to their homes, their lives. The next steps? Bringing in food, water, and medical help. In Israel, the families of hostages anxiously await the return of their loved ones.

As everyone holds out hope, this time, the ceasefire will last. This is your world tonight. I'm Stephanie Skanderas. It's Friday, October 10th, coming up on 6 p.m. Eastern, also on the podcast. This fight will continue on, but we're here to provide a podcast. public service, and we're returning to work to provide that service. Postal workers are going back to their roots. There's no contract yet, but mail in Canada will likely start moving again within days.

And these people wouldn't be dead if it weren't for the toxic supply. The spike in overdose deaths in a small community on Vancouver Island. plans to travel to Israel and Egypt on Monday to meet hostage families and sign the ceasefire deal. He'll also hold a summit of world leaders while in Egypt to rally support for his plan. Later stages may be in jeopardy. Hamas and other Palestinian factions have rejected what they call any foreign guardianship over Gaza, but phase one went into effect today. Senior international correspondent Margaret Evans is in Jerusalem and brings us the latest. Thousands of Palestinians began the long trek north along Gaza's coastal road

as soon as the ceasefire took hold on foot or by donkey cart and for the lucky ones by vehicle, all in search of home, a place they know they may no longer recognize. Even if it's rubble, we will pitch a tent and live, says Wael al-Najar, a man in his 50s. It's better than being born. displaced. Nearly all of Gaza's 2 million people have been displaced many several times over. We're happy that the genocide and massacre is over, says Abu Mustafa Abu Toha, but the air is filled

with the scent of pain and frustration. Israeli troops had earlier withdrawn to agreed upon lines inside Gaza, still leaving them with control of over 50% of the strip. Something spokesman Brigadier General Effie Defrin was keen to emphasize, saying the IDF remains deployed deep inside Gaza. If things can be achieved through negotiation, so be it, he says. If not, Israel is fully prepared to return to war. The Israeli Prime Minister, too, sounded warnings. Benjamin Netanyahu appearing on television, saying Hamas will be disarmed. Either the easy, way, he said, or the hard way. In Gaza, Hamas armed internal security police made a show of patrolling some streets, a message to Gazans, perhaps, and to Israel that they're still there.

A Hamas spokesman in Gaza, Hazam Qasem, said the group will not be part of a future administration in Gaza, but he also said disarming isn't a given. We think weapons are a legitimate means to defend our Palestinian people, he's saying. It's a stark example of what could still derail this oh-so-fragile truce. The ceasefire set the clock ticking for the next 72 hours, during which Hamas is expected to release all 20 living Israeli hostages. Israeli authorities say medical experts and trauma therapists are preparing to receive the hostages and to support the families awaiting them. As a part of the truce,

2,000 Palestinian prisoners will be released and desperately needed aid is expected to be allowed into Gaza again in the days ahead, the season beginning to turn. Many Gazans in Han Yunus today, taking advantage of relatively quiet skies overhead to forage for firewood

in the post-apocalyptic-like ruins of their former home. Marker Devon, CBC News, Jerusalem. Democrats are rallying behind him battled New York State Attorney General Letitia James, a day after she was indicted on mortgage fraud charges. James has long come up against U.S. President Donald Trump. These charges renew concerns about the weaponization of the Federal Justice Department to punish his enemies.

Katie Nicholson has more. This is not simply an attack on Attorney General, Tishol. James. This is an attack on our city. New York City mayoral candidate Zoran Mamdani added his voice to the chorus of condemnation after Donald Trump's DOJ secured a grand jury indictment against Letitia James. This is a shameless act of political retribution. As New York Attorney General, James brought a civil fraud case against then former President Trump in 2022. A judge ruled Trump habitually overinflated his net worth to get better loan terms and insurance policies

and slapped him with a $452 million fine, which was later dropped. The finding of fraud, however, was upheld. You have an attorney general who's a totals, stone call crook. James became a frequent target of Trump's gripes and was one of three named foes in a social media post addressed to Attorney General Pam Bondi urging her to take action. Among them, former FBI director James Comey, who was indicted last month. The allegations against Letitia James oddly similar to her case against Trump.

The DOJ alleges she improperly secured a low fixed-rate mortgage by claiming a Virginia property was her second home. This is nothing more than a continuation of the president's desperate weaponization of our justice system. James released a video statement on X on Thursday, calling the charges baseless. His decision to fire a United States attorney who refused to bring charges against me and replace them with someone who is blindly loyal

not to the law, but to the president is antithetical to the bedrock principles of our country. That someone is Lindsay Halligan, hastily installed with no prosecutorial experience as the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia just in time to bring charges against James Comey before a statute of limitations ran out. Comey's lawyers are expected to argue she was unlawfully appointed.

That could jeopardize the DOJ's cases against both Comey and James. As lawyers prepare to battle it out in the courts on Capitol Hill, outrage from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Donald Trump has turned the Justice Department into his personal attack dog to go after his political enemies. Republican Representative Don Bacon, however, sees another side of the coin. I do see a little bit of the weaponization, but let's back up. Leticia James ran when she ran for election to prosecute President Trump.

So she, in her own right, is about weaponization of the justice system. James heads to court on October 24th, this time not as a prosecutor, but as a defendant. Katie Nicholson, CBC News, Toronto. 19 people are missing and fear dead after a military explosives facility in Tennessee blew up this morning. The blast damaged vehicles and leveled one building. It happened at accurate energetic systems, an eight-building facility about 100 kilometers southwest of Nashville. Humphrey's County Sheriff Chris Davis was asked to describe the scene. Can I describe the building? There's nothing to describe. It's gone.

It's, again, it's the most devastating scene that I've seen in my career. Davis did not specify how many people were killed, but confirmed there are fatalities. He says the scene is now secure. Coming right up, your mail and parcels are about to get moving again. The Canada Post workers nationwide strike action is ending, but it's not totally back to the mail route as usual. And Canada's economy added 60,000 jobs last month, a big positive sign since the trade war with the U.S. began.

You'll hear what sectors and provinces are soaring and where the job market is still on shaky ground. Later, we'll have this story. I'm Paul Hunter in London with word of this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner. The prize, U.S. President Donald Trump had lately hinted, should deservedly go to him. So, did it? The Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 goes to a brave and committed champion of peace. Spoiler alert, it went to Marina Karina Machado, the hugely popular opposition leader in Venezuela. More on her and the prize later on your world tonight.

Your mailbox could be back in action starting Tuesday. day. The union representing striking postal workers says it's ending the nationwide walkout. It's going to shift to rotating strikes after public support for the job action started to wane. As Nisha Patel reports, that doesn't mean its fight is over. This fight will continue on. Some postal workers will be back on the job Saturday, says Mark Lubinsky, president of the Toronto Local Union. That will get mail and parcels moving again next week, though there may be delays. There will be some.

smaller local work stoppages until the two sides reach a deal. Canada Post has no intention to save Canada Post or to offer us a decent live-boat contract, which we're able to support our families. Instead, they're gutting out jobs. The shift in strategy to rotating strikes comes two weeks after postal workers walked off the job. Rafael Gomez studies labor relations at the University of Toronto. This is finding that balance between imposing costs on an employer, to get the deal that you want, but not overdoing it so that the costs spill over to the general public.

With mail delivery frozen, public frustration has been growing. Some Canadians had important documents stuck in limbo. Many small businesses couldn't send goods. It obviously means that the union felt that the position they were in was not working. This latest strike, the second in the past year, started after the federal government announced plans to restructure Canada Post, which is on track to lose one and a half billion dollars this year. Among the plan changes ending door-to-door mail delivery

and closing some rural post offices. The government's announcements cut thousands of jobs, if not 10,000 jobs. It will cost Canadians billions of dollars. Jim Galant is a negotiator for the Postal Workers Union. He says the government's restructuring plan came in the middle of bargaining with Canada Post, undermining efforts to reach a deal. The conflict between us and Canada Post and the government is not over.

It continues. Canada Post says it's making plans to restart operations, but with rotating strikes, all service guarantees will be suspended. Basha Sokol, a letter carrier from Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley, has worked for Canada Post for 16 years. It's very difficult to be on strike. She hopes postal workers can now rally the public to support their cause.

We're at a time where we're talking about nation building, then Canadians should get behind the post office 100%. Canada Post tabled a new offer last week that included a wage bump but removed a signing bonus and some job security. The union is reviewing it but called it a step back. Nisha Patel, CBC News, Toronto. After a slow summer, Canada's job market is picking up.

Statistics Canada says the economy added 60,000 new jobs last month. The unemployment rate remained steady at 7.1%. But that's because more people entered the workforce. It's the first real positive sign the labor market has seen since the U.S. trade war began and has many wondering if the worst of the initial shock is behind us. For more on that.

Let's bring in the CBC's Peter Armstrong. So, Peter, where did this job growth come from? I mean, that's part of what's so encouraging here, Stephanie, is that the headline is good, but the details are even better. Canada actually added 106,000 full-time jobs, but lost like 40,000 to part-time jobs. Oh, well, that's a trade. I think almost anyone would be happy to take. Exactly. And you look at the sectors, right? Agriculture's up. Health care and social assistance was up. But the most interesting thing I think in this entire report is that manufacturing as a sector added jobs last month. Yeah, so 28,000 jobs in

manufacturing. That is way more than anyone expected. So how do we make? sense of that. It's a bit weird for sure. On the one hand, remember, these monthly numbers, they're some of the fastest data we get. They turn them around incredibly quickly, but because of that, they're prone to revisions. But look, we saw manufacturing sales start to show signs of life over the summer. And remember, 90-some percent of our exports to the U.S. remain tariff-free. Right. But can we zoom out for a bit here? What do these numbers tell us about the economy right now? I asked BMO's chief economist Douglas Porter, that very question. And here's what he had to say.

This might be an early indication that things are turning the corner. It's certainly eye-popping that the manufacturing sector reportedly added more than 20,000 jobs in the month. I have to say that's probably the single most surprising aspect to the report. But, of course, it's way too early to make that call. First of all, we have to know what's happening on the trade front before we can really say, well, the worst of the trade war is over. Right, which is fair.

And even though it's too early to say, and that's an important. caveat, there is this growing kind of body of evidence that the economy has been able to, largely speaking, absorb so much of that uncertainty that weighed on basically everything in the spring and the summer. And if that's the case, that's good news. Okay, but even with this potentially good news, you can see signs of the trade war in these numbers, right? They're everywhere, right? One really good example of this is in the provincial breakdown, Alberta added an astounding 43,000 jobs, largely because that province isn't feeling

the tariffs quite as much. Canola farmers, of course, the obvious exception there. But look at Ontario. Zero jobs added. In a province, quite obviously exposed to U.S. trade, heavily reliant on the very sectors that are facing the steepest tariffs. How do you think the Bank of Canada reads this? That's, I think, going to be really interesting to see. The bank is expected to cut interest rates further. But look, it might see signs in these data that the economy is doing okay and might not need the stimulus, at least not just yet. Okay, Peter, Thank you. You bet.

Senior business correspondent Peter Armstrong in Toronto. A small city on Vancouver Island is emerging as a new epicenter in Canada's toxic drug crisis. 13 people have died from overdose in Campbell River, B.C. in the past six weeks alone. And residents have little hope the anguish will end anytime soon. Georgie Smythe reports. Oh, I knew all of them. We knew them all. They're our friends.

Anne-Marie LeVac is overwhelmed when she thinks about the 13 drug users that have died in Campbell River since late August. It's happened too often. Way too fucking often. Yeah, we're all just statistics to them. LeVac uses crack and says it's especially difficult to be a person with an addiction in this small seaside community where a rolling crisis of homelessness, poisonous drugs and mental health problems calcify in streets and homes. There's nowhere for us to go for treatment or anything. This is a significant spike.

Constable Murray Tire is the local RCMP's media liaison officer. Last month, his detachment issued a rare warning to the public to be extra cautious with street drugs in Campbell River. They don't have family here. They don't have any social supports. Outreach officers say the crisis in Campbell River is partly because of migration. Users from all over the north end of Vancouver Island come to the city to access the limited services it has.

Jackie Erickson says many find toxic drugs before they find help. The supply down here is just so much more toxic than anything that their bodies have maybe been exposed to up north that oftentimes they end up coming here and dying on our streets. Erickson says reduced services for people with addictions and a new bylaw enforcement team that moves users out of the downtown core make her work harder. It's really challenging for service providers to find people.

to deliver services. So, I mean, I really worry that people are out using alone, intense in, like, the forest and overdosing and dying in that way. So I think that the loss of services has really hurt our population. City officials say health care is a provincial responsibility, and the changes they made are about public safety, like trying to relocate users from the street to newly built houses. These people wouldn't be dead if it weren't for the talks.

supply. But Chantal Costas says these latest deaths are a reminder of how much more needs to be done in Campbell River and beyond. Her 20-year-old son Santos died from an overdose here in 2022, despite her efforts to get him into a detox program. He was offered a bed five hours away in the lower mainland, but they couldn't get there in time. He died a few days later. You like to think that your son's death had some impact and would start changing things. In this, City, hope, and cynicism live side by side. Georgie Smyth, CBC News, Campbell River, BC. You're listening to Your World Tonight from CBC News.

And if you want to make sure you never miss one of our episodes, follow us on Spotify, Apple, wherever you get your podcasts. Just find the follow button and lock us in. Taiwan celebrated its national day today with a colorful display of musical and military pageantry in the capital, Taipei. But it was celebrated against a backdrop of uncertainty. China has stepped up its military threats and activity near Taiwan, and the U.S. has sent mixed signals about whether it'll be there to defend the island. Chris Brown is in Taipei.

Taiwan threw a big party to celebrate its national. day, but the colorful event with bands, traditional dancing, and a military fly-past only underscored that the island's outlook is growing more uncertain and tense by the day. China has become increasingly hostile, and the United States, Taiwan's traditional ally, increasingly unpredictable. In his speech in front of the presidential palace, Lai Qingde announced Taiwan will build what he called a T-Dome. He described it as a multi-lodong.

layered missile shield that will be able to intercept incoming Chinese drones and rockets. China now stages almost daily provocations against Taiwan. Its jets overfly waters claimed by Taiwan, and there are indications its Navy may even be practicing dry runs for a potential invasion. National Day events here have typically elicited a strong response from China, and this year was no exception. Taiwan's military chased away a Chinese Coast Guard ship that ventured too close to a Taiwan-controlled island. China's government sees Taiwan as a breakaway province that will be reclaimed by force if necessary. Boosting military spending, though, is controversial. The government says it will rise to 5% of GDP by 2030.

The opposition KMT and its vice president, Andrew Shah, says more confrontation by the ruling party, the DPP, is not the answer. So there's no dialogue and people are becoming more and more hostile to each other. And that is the problem. Taiwan's military is getting stronger, but the island relies heavily on U.S. backing still, which defense expert Ronan Fu says under President Donald Trump has become unpredictable. So verbal threat, accusing Taiwan being like a person stealing everything from the U.S. and who's not willing to pay for, you know, is service, right?

So this basically just hurt a lot of Chinese people's feeling. Taiwan's key asset in dealing with both the U.S. and China is its dominance of making microchips. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, or TSM, controls 90% of the market for the world's most advanced chips used in AI. That puts Taiwan at the epicenter of a vast global supply chain, and some here believe it also gives their little island leverage as it tries to get what it wants from two global superpowers.

Chris Brown, CBC News, Taipei. The winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize was announced today and never has there been so much attention on who didn't get the award. But we'll start with who did. Maria Corina Machado, who's known as Venezuela's Iron Lady. Paul Hunter reports. The Nobel Peace Prize for 2025, goes to a brave and committed champion of peace.

The announcement, first thing this morning from Norway. To Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela. Maria Machado, the hugely popular opposition leader in Venezuela now in hiding somewhere in that country, has for years been fighting for. greater freedom in Venezuela, taking on the government of President Nicholas Maduro, who was

voted into office again last year in an election widely viewed as rigged, and who has long, forcefully cracked down on dissent and his opponents. I'm calling to inform you that you will be awarded. In a phone call, just before the official announcement, Machado was given the heads-up she'd won. So the warmest congratulations to you, Maria? Oh, my God. Well, I have no words. Thank you so much. She said she herself doesn't deserve it,

that the prize is recognition of the broader push for democracy in Venezuela. This is a achievement of a whole society. I am just, you know, one person. But for all the attention now on Machado and her prize, the spotlight is in many ways equally on someone who did not win today. U.S. President Donald Trump. And I called him, I said, let's end the war. Who in recent weeks and months had taken the unusual step of publicly hinting that he thinks he deserves it,

even saying it would be a big insult if he didn't win. I stopped wars from happening. If it were somebody else, they would have gotten five Nobel Prizes. I never even got a mention. And in now officially not winning the prize in the week Trump announced a peace deal in Gaza, It's clear some in the White House are not exactly thrilled. In a post on X today, White House Communications Director Stephen Chung wrote, The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace.

Worth noting, Trump himself is a supporter of Machado, as Trump continues to put political and military pressure against the Venezuelan president. On that, Machado today gave Trump a direct shout-out, posting, I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump, for his decisive support of our cause. We're not there yet. In the fight for democracy, she seemed to suggest,

with the help of the guy who didn't win, maybe they'll get there. Thank you very much. Paul Hunter, CBC News, London. We close tonight with a lesson in how to be an all-star baseball fan. I got a jacket and shirt. I didn't wear a jersey today

because I got to save him for the rest next round, but I got probably every color jersey at home. Rui Castellano is our teacher, which is perfect because he's a real grade 6 teacher in London, Ontario. His students are well aware of his baseball passion. If his Blue Jays branded outfits weren't enough, he's got a wall of posters and newspaper clippings about the Jays behind his desk, bubbleheads of past players like Josh Donaldson nodding away on his bookshelf, and RBI's in his lesson plans. So, like, if we're doing stats, I'll bring baseball cards and do stats with them, and even just you even, formulas and how to calculate their averages and that sort of thing.

Being in the grade six class, they're learning about averaging and stuff like that. So just teaching them about the different things that sports is math, and they can actually imply it in their regular days. He's been using the Blue Jays as part of his classes for two decades and says it's a home run approach. The kids are more engaged, they're more enjoying the class, they're asking more questions, they want to go to know more. They actually want to learn more. So it actually keeps them definitely engaged.

Great Six is also about the time Mr. Castellano himself. got into the Jays catching games at the Skydome. He's been loyal to the team ever since and is anxiously waiting to see where they go next. I mean, my best friend basically just really got hooked on the Jays. Collecting baseball cards start off that way. Eventually took our dads for Father's Day game in Toronto when Skydome first opened up back in the early 90s.

Yeah, keep cheering them on and hopefully get a real series in there. There's still the American League Championship series to get through first. We'll find out tonight if the Jays played Detroit or Seattle. in that. Castellano says if the Jays can beat the Yankees the way they just did, they can beat anybody. Talk about going to bat for your team. This has been your world tonight for Friday, October 10th. I'm Stephanie Scandaris. Thank you for being with us. Good night. For more CBC podcasts, go to cbc.ca.ca slash podcasts.