Your World Tonight - Trump threatens another tariff on Canada, New rules for Ontario medical residents, Blue Jays lead World Series, and more

Episode Date: October 25, 2025

Donald Trump says he's hitting Canada with a new tariff of 10 percent. The U.S. President made the latest threat Saturday, in a social media post that took even the Carney government by surprise, according to sources who spoke to CBC News. Its a further response to an anti-tariff ad put out by the Ontario government Also: You've no doubt heard about the critical shortage of family doctors affecting communities across Canada. Ontario's made a change to its medical residency policy that it says will ensure local grads get opportunities to stay in the province. But international graduates say the change leaves them in limbo - all because of where they went to high school.And: The Toronto Blue Jays are riding high heading into Game 2 of the World Series, after a stunning 11-4 win against the LA Dodgers Friday night. Fans are optimistic about the team's chance to win it all, but there are still challenges ahead.Plus: Marco Rubio in Israel, How ports are cutting ship emissions, Using solar power to curb food waste at open air markets, and more. 

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International medical graduates say they want to practice in this country, but Ontario's put up a new barrier. And where they went to high school suddenly matters. Plus. 32 years, I heard all the talk. They said the Dodgers were going to kill us. Not happening. The Blue Jays are not just back on baseball's biggest stage.

They commanded the spotlight with a delicious 11-4. win, and hungry fans want them to do it again. Donald Trump says he's hitting Canada with a new tariff. The U.S. President made the latest threat Saturday in a social media post that took even the Karnie government by surprise, according to sources who spoke to CBC News. Chris Reyes joins us from New York with more. So, Chris, President Trump says this new tariff is coming. What's his reasoning?

Yeah, that's right, 10% on top of the suite of tariffs that are already in place. And it's all because of this ad that Ontario paid for and ran in the U.S., including during the World Series broadcast. And Stephanie, Trump has been livid about this ad ever since the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation came out saying that the ad misrepresents the Reagan speech that it uses from. 1987 where Reagan touts the value of free trade and the dangers of tariffs. Trump has been posting about it since Friday unleashing a barrage of accusations against Canada calling the ad fake a fraud and an attempt to influence the Supreme Court where

some of Trump's tariffs are being challenged. Note here that this is so far just a threat and it's not clear if and when Trump will sign an order slapping Canada with these new tariffs. Can we just look further into this? Because Trump is going really hard saying this ad is fake, a fraud. Is there any truth to that? So the audio is directly taken from this 1987 radio address by President Reagan. And there are no signs whatsoever that it's been altered in any way. But the ad only uses a minute of the whole five-minute speech. It doesn't use the part in which Reagan talks. about reluctantly putting tariffs on Japanese goods after it accused the country of essentially

dumping low-cost electronics in the U.S. while restricting the U.S. from selling its goods in Japan. It also doesn't speak to the context of the speech. Reagan was telling Americans to keep Congress from forcing the president to put tariffs on countries for unfair trade practices. All that said, Reagan very clearly in the speech spoke to the value of free trade. He even mentions Canada in the speech saying that the two countries shared that value. Now, earlier this week, Trump acknowledged he saw the ad. He even said that if he was in Canada's shoes, he would run it too, but he didn't think it would work.

He didn't sound angry at all. But obviously, Trump took what the Reagan Presidential Foundation said and has now revved it up and taken it as an affront to Canada-U.S. trade talks, and he doesn't seem to be backing down. And also happening now, both Trump and Canada's Prime Minister, Mark Carney, are in Malaysia for the ASEAN summit. Where do things go from here? Trump just told reporters on board Air Force One

that he won't meet with Carney during these summits and that there's nothing that Canada can do to reverse course on the talks. Does this mean their teams will try to arrange or nudge some kind of meeting on the sidelines. There's plenty of opportunity at these summits to do that. Who knows? Because the only thing predictable about Trump is that he's unpredictable. Truer words, never spoken, Chris, thank you so much. Thank you. Chris Reyes in New York. Now, at that association of Southeast Asian Nations summit and in the face of this latest U.S. trade hostility, Prime Minister Mark Carney is in search of new

trading partners. The Prime Minister's main goal is getting a Canada-Asian free trade deal finalized by the end of next year. That 10-country block includes some of the fastest growing economies in the world. On Monday, Carney heads to Singapore for more meetings before he goes to South Korea for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit. Meanwhile, Ukraine's allies, including Canada, are agreeing to put more economic pressure on Russia. That includes, possible sanctions on Russian oil companies and the use of frozen Russian assets to help fund Ukraine's war effort. In a statement, the leaders of the Coalition of the Willing say Vladimir Putin is not serious about peace and that any measures are meant to put Ukraine on the best

possible footing before, during, and after any ceasefire. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Qatar today to seek allies to form an international force in Gaza. Rubio and U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance have spent the last few days in the region trying to bolster the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The U.S. officials have criticized a move by Israel's parliament to annex parts of the occupied West Bank. While in Gaza, people are trying to rebuild their lives amid the destruction. The CBC's Willie Lowry is one of a handful of journalists traveling with Marco Rubio. He's in Jerusalem. Willie, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other U.S. officials are clearly irritated about this vote in the Israeli parliament to take over parts of the West Bank.

What can you tell us about that, about the vote and their reaction? They certainly are, and they've made no efforts to hide their frustration. The vote which took place on Wednesday while Vice President J.D. Vance was in Israel is the first of many votes required to pass the legislation, but it really irked U.S. officials. Vance called it, quote, stupid, while Secretary of State Marco Rubio said it would only make peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors more difficult to achieve. We don't think it's going to happen. And more importantly, I mean, everyone has to understand if something like that were to happen, a lot of the countries that are involved in working on this probably aren't going to want to be involved in this anymore. It's a threat to the peace process and everybody knows it. But I'm not getting to the middle of Israeli politics. The U.S. has assembled a large coalition of nations to back its ceasefire plan. between Israel and Hamas, and the Trump administration hopes to eventually build off of the Abraham Accords,

which saw Israel normalize relations with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and later Sudan during the first Trump presidency. But many Arab states, including Saudi Arabia, view annexation as a potential major roadblock to normalization. And as all of this is happening, the situation in Gaza remains dire for people there. What's the latest in terms of aid getting into the territory? Yeah, it absolutely does. Getting aid into Gaza and safely into the hands of Palestinians remains a critical issue. The World Food Program says that while aid has increased in recent days since the ceasefire has been in effect, it remains nowhere near where it needs to be.

The U.S. State Department has established a civilian military coordination center in southern Israel that is essentially designed to monitor the ceasefire, but also to ensure that aid reaches Palestinians. The U.S., though, is adamant that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in the Near East, better known as UNR, cannot be involved in that process. That's problematic, is it's historically the main vehicle for aid into Gaza. It's a conglomeration of about eight to 12 groups that are here. The United Nations is here. They're on the ground. We're willing to work with them if they can make it work, but not UNRWA. Unra became a subsidiary of Hamas.

That was Secretary Rubio speaking to reporters while touring the Coordination Center in Southern Israel yesterday. The U.N. vehemently denies any connection to Hamas. And just this week, its top court said Israel was obliged to let UNRWA facilitate aid into Gaza. Rubio is now in Qatar to start building an international stabilization force for Gaza. What are the prospects for that? Well, that's right. President Donald Trump actually says it's going to happen, quote, pretty quickly. He met with the Emir of Qatar earlier today, and he said the Gulf nation had volunteered to be a part of the force. However, it remains unclear which other countries would be involved.

The U.S. has said it will not send troops into the Gaza Strip. And Rubio said the U.S. was working hard to assemble a list of willing nations, but he wasn't ready to share it just yet. Okay, Willie, thanks so much. My pleasure. The CBC's Willie Lowry in Jerusalem. Tropical storm Melissa is now a Category 1 hurricane. The storm is located about 230 kilometers southeast of Jamaica, where it's expected to make landfall on Monday.

Forecasters say Melissa could intensify to a Category 4 hurricane by then, dumping over 600 millimeters of rain on the island. Melissa has been moving slowly through the Caribbean, threatening torrential rains in other areas. The storm has already killed at least three people in Haiti, and another in the Dominican Republic. Still ahead, the heat of the sun is fueling a chilly revolution. Solar-powered cold rooms are changing the game for food vendors in Nigeria.

We'll take you to the capital to hear why. That's coming up on your world tonight. Ireland has elected a new president. Left independent lawmaker, Catherine Connolly, won the vote by a landslide with 63%. For all who voted for me, thank you very much. It will be an absolute privilege to serve you. For those who didn't vote for me and those who spile their votes, let me tell you, I will be an inclusive president to listen to all of you. Connolly gained the backing of the country's left-leaning parties and has been an outspoken

critic of Israel's actions in Gaza and growing militarization by the EU. Ireland's presidency is a largely ceremonial role, but her win is seen as a rebuke to the country's center-right government elected last year. You've heard about the critical shortage of family doctors affecting communities across Canada. Well, Ontario's made a change to its medical residency policy that it says will ensure local grads get opportunities to stay in the province. But international graduates say the change leaves them in limbo, all because of where they're in. they went to high school. She and Desjardin reports. It was like a beacon of hope for us. It's our home right now. And Mohamed Issa was hoping Ontario would be his family's home forever, while he worked as a physician,

something desperately needed in this province. After four years in the country, he could almost see it. But a change in Ontario's policy for international medical graduates like him sent him back to the drawing board. There is no word to describe that, to be honest. Like, it was a shock. Requirements mean international medical graduates have to have at least two years of high school in Ontario if they want to apply to the province's first round of residency matching. Something Ysa was planning to do. His application already started. He knew it would be a challenge. There aren't many seats to begin with. But applying in the second round, he says that's nearly impossible. Things have changed totally now. I'm considering moving to a different province in order to be able to practice medicine here. A spokesperson for the Ontario Minister of Health says we know medical school residents are likely to practice in the region where they receive training.

And this will ensure Ontario has a strong pipeline of world-class Ontario trained to doctors for years to come. But the change is sparking criticism from medical organizations across the country, saying it excludes qualified people keen to work. We need to decrease barriers, reduce barriers, not put up more barriers. Especially at a time when attracting more doctors is paramount, according to Dr. Margo Brunel, the Canadian Medical Association chair. The impact may be that those individuals affected will look at other practices, other provinces. That's not ideal for those trying to recruit physicians back to this one. We want to be able to go out into our recruitment events and be proud to be from Ontario.

Jill Croteau with the Ontario Physicians Recruitment Alliance was in Dublin recently, meeting with hundreds of Canadian students from across the country studying there. At this event last year, her team could target essentially anyone, no matter where they went to high school. Now that pool has shrunk. We would like to think that we have the best people that are applying for the jobs, not necessarily where they went to high school. So this type of a limiting factor doesn't paint Ontario with a positive lens. As for Issa, he's starting his new application for family medicine,

in a different province. Hopefully, by going to another place, I will also continue fulfilling my dreams of serving the communities that I believe I belong to. And despite the curveball, he says he would still apply in Ontario, what he calls home, if the requirements changed back. She and Desjardin, CBC News, Toronto. In Nigeria's capital, a quiet transformation is taking place in some of its open-air markets. Solar-powered cold rooms are cutting food waste, boosting early. for vendors, many of whom are women, and keeping prices steady for shoppers. As Kunle Babs reports, it's a simple idea that's reshaping local food trade

and driving climate resilience. Before, I threw away lots of tomatoes and peppers every week. Now, with the cold room, I store them at an affordable price overnight and they stay fresh. For years, traders like Mina Minor watched part of the goose rot in the heat before they could sell. them. But with solar-powered coal storage inside the market, things are changing. Minna now rent space to keep our unsold goods overnight and what used to be wasted is now sold the next day. My income is better now. I can save more. Even late in the evening, the tomatoes still look new. With frequent power cuts and high diesel costs, keeping food fresh without electricity has always been a major challenge.

The solar runs everything. We work 24 hours. Our uptime is more than 95%. Nasseri Rebellu runs a solar-powered cold room at Garikyu International Market in Abuja. He says the system is not only reliable, but also making a real difference for women vendors. Vendors pay about 68 cents to store a crate for a day.

Most of our customers are women, and when they earn more, it supports their families. According to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, Nigeria loses up to 50% of highly perishable crops after harvest yearly. But Code Ops, a leading cold storage provider says vendors using solar-powered cold rooms have caught those losses by as much as 80% and boasted their incomes by 25%. The company currently serves more than 11,100 farmers, retailers and old sellers across the country through 58 solar cold rooms.

The cold storage helps us a lot So when we cool the perish shovels before blinking them to the market, they arrive fresh For small-scale farmers like Sadia Yahaya, pre-cooling their produce before transport helps protect its quality and reduce waste And with less spoilage on the road, they earn more from every harvest. We lose less and buyers pay better. However, climate expert Pana Samuel says the impact remains limited because access to this solar coal. Rooms is still unheavened across the country. The cold room facilities are not enough.

For your country as big as Nigeria, every major market should have won. Right now, that's not the case. Experts say wider government support and investment could help expand solar-powered cold rooms to more markets nationwide, ensuring more farmers and traders benefit and helping Nigeria drastically cost post-average losses. Kunlebabs for CBC News, Abuja, Nigeria. Whether they are carrying people or goods, ships are a huge source of greenhouse gas emissions and other kinds of pollution, even when docked.

But there is a way to help cut those emissions when ships are at port, plugging them in. Emily Chung explains. Hundreds of cruise ships come and go from Canadian ports each year. New arrivals spill their contents into the city. You see waves of tourists walking around with big smiles. You also see every once in a while a cloud of blue smoke wafting wafting over the first couple blocks of downtown. That's Brent Dancy from Oceans North.

He's in Halifax often for his work with the Marine Conservation Group. He himself has choked on that pollution and says locals complain too. They call the port about it, but it's really a human health issue. The problem is that ships burn fuel even while in port to power what's essentially a floating city. But they don't have to. With the right equipment and infrastructure, they could plug in at the dock and use electricity instead. That's called shore power. A research brief from Oceans North shows it's widely available in ports like Hamburg, Shanghai, and Long Beach. Basically full coverage for cruise and container shipping. But only four of Canada's 17 port authorities have any shore power, despite the many benefits.

What we've noticed, plugging in a vessel reduces the emissions for that vessel while it's plugged in by about 68%. Kurt Slocum is in charge of planning an infrastructure at the Port of Prince Rupert in BC. It installed shore power at two of its five berths for container ships in 2023. Slocum says the reduced noise from ships plugging in has already. already had unexpected benefits. We've already seen whales in larger numbers than normal. So far, Prince Rupert's shore power has only been used by 15 vessels. Part of that is which vessels are calling that can plug in and which ones can't.

But Dancy says it's also because, unlike other countries, Canada doesn't make ships plug in. So far, Canadian governments have spent more than 40 million installing shore power, the Ocean's North report found. But if ships don't have to plug in... We're not really maximizing the benefits of that investment. The Port of Montreal's expansion is one of the projects recently fast-tracked by the federal government. We're building it for the next generation.

Spokesperson Julianne Baudrie says it will serve many ships from Europe and every ship that arrives at the new terminal will be able to access shore power. And the consumers in Europe, they want green product. So having a green ship at the port of Montreal, a ship that's electrify when at shore, that's something that will benefit not only the people that lives nearby, but also the companies will be using that terminal to export goods in Europe.

Brent Danty says with global regulations coming in to cut pollution and emissions from shipping, Canadian ports are going to need more shore power to stay competitive. Emily Chung, CBC News, Toronto. Canada doesn't just need to retrofit its ports to help meet its climate targets. it would also need to build up its EV charging network. A lack of charging infrastructure remains a major reason why many car buyers are EV hesitant. But imagine a world where your car could charge itself while driving.

Some engineers in France are trying to make that a reality. Freelance reporter Ross Cullen has that story. In Paris, the city authorities are trying to increase charging points for electric vehicles as part of a plan to reduce air pollution. But just outside the city, a project to change the way we charge electric cars. The aim is to test if vehicles could be charged while on the move. It is essential.

Pierre Delague is the director of electric mobility projects at the French construction firm Vinci, one of the companies involved in the trial. In France, the emissions from the transport sector are about a third of the French national emissions. so we need to tackle these, and electric mobility is trying to do that. Special-equipped prototype buses, vans and cars will be used for the trial, which sees inductive coils installed about 10 centimetres under the asphalt. The project was started by the French Ministry of Transport in 2021, and is focused especially on trucks.

The ministry did studies that compared the different technologies to decarbonized trucks, and they came out with the conclusion that what is called electric road system, so this system capable of charging vehicle as they drive, are the best, the most efficient solution to decarbonize the truck. The invisible coil is just the first of two technologies being tested. The second involves connecting the vehicle to a charging rail fixed to the carriageway. These new technologies mean EVs could use smaller and lighter batteries in the future. We have some doubts on the feasibility of this technology at a, let's say, national level.

Nicola Raffin, from the NGO transport and environment, says while the trial is interesting, it is also cost prohibitive. We think like it could work on maybe small part of the road, but to us it could be really expensive if we try to extend this charge at a drive technology. to all highways in France, for example. And the system would be complex to coordinate because in Europe so much freight crosses road borders every day and the charging facilities would need to be rolled out uniformly, internationally to be successful outside France. Ross Cullen for CBC News, Paris.

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But as Philip Lee Schenock reports, the team still has challenges ahead. Let's go, Blue Jay! From this bar in Halifax... Let's go! It's Candice! Let's go. To this bar in Vancouver, where Alan McAndrew is cheering on the Jays. All the players say we're playing for Canada. They're, like, amazed how this country is resilient behind them, yeah.

Across Canada, fans are behind the team and hope they'll go all the way and bring home their first World Series title in 32 years. But Scott Crawford of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in St. Mary's, Ontario, says it's a big deal just to make it to the World Series. I don't think they realize, like, there's 30 teams in baseball, one team wins, and it's hard to go and get here. Joe Carter with a three-run home. Near London, Ontario, the Hall of Fame is where memorabilia from the last Blue Jays World Series win are on display. We've got the greatest artifacts ever from the 1990s World Series because we have, you know, Joe hit the ball over the wall.

We have the home plate. Carter also donated the batting helmet he wore when he hit the historic home run to beat the Philadelphia Phillies in game six. It fell off his head that first base coach picked it up and it's on display in our museum. So we got basically the greatest item you could ever ask for for Canadian baseball history. And the museum is hoping to add to its collection. A lot of, you know, questions on whether the Blue Jays were going to be able to match up to the Dodgers and...

Adam Lascaris is associate sports editor at the Daily Hive. He says a dominant game one against the L.A. Dodgers was a good start given that the 2025 Blue Jays were counted out by many sports pundits even before the series began. In the opener, they fell behind to nothing. You know, early in the game, the Jays didn't really have a whole lot going on offensively. Then came Addison Barger's Grand Slam, the first pinch hit Grand Slam in World Series history, setting up an historic inning. In the sixth inning, they kind of blow it up. You know, scoring nine

runs at one inning, most runs in a single inning in the World Series since 1968, so. Young fans like Brandon Mingo say they know they witnessed history in the making. It was so crazy. 32 years, I heard all the talk. They said the Dodgers were going to kill us. Not happening. But the Blue Jays have their work cut out for them. They have to beat the Dodgers three more times, a tall order if they want to repeat history. Philip the Shadok, CBC News, Toronto. if the crack of a bat hitting a baseball doesn't thrill you well how about the beat of a powwow drum taken to another level when it's combined with a guitar playing the blues that's the sound of a new album just out between blue moon marquee a swing blues duo from bc and northern cree a powwow and

round dance, drum, and singing group based in Alberta. It's a combo you may not have considered, but Northern Cree has taken their sound into different spaces before. From 2008, that's Northern Cree with Santa Gold and MIA. Paring up with a blues band is a natural fit, says Blue Moon Marquis singer AW Cardinal, who is himself Woodland Cree. He told CBC music, blues and powwow music both have a similar call-and-response technique.

And historians say blues and indigenous music complimented one another when First Nations helped runaway slaves. Cardinal tells CBC music the new album called Get Your Feathers Ready is one of the most powerful. of his career. We'll leave you with a little more from that. This is Rowland and Tumbling on Your World Tonight. I'm Stephanie Skanderas. Thank you for listening. For more CBC Podcasts, go to CBC.