Your World Tonight - World Series game six, Trump on Canada talks, Ozempic for addiction, and more

Episode Date: October 31, 2025

Baseball fans around the country are on tenterhooks—waiting to see if the Toronto Blue Jays will win the World Series. A win tonight or tomorrow will seal the deal.And: U.S. President Donald Trump says he’s not resuming trade negotiations with Canada any time soon. He’s still angry about an ad by the Ontario government using a Ronald Reagan speech about tariffs. Trump says Prime Minister Mark Carney apologized, but that’s not enough to restart talks.Also: Food, drugs, alcohol, motivation—research suggests GLP-1 drugs could blunt your desire for all those things. And scientists are trying to figure out how to balance the positive effects with the negative.Plus: Carney meets Xi, the risks of intravenous therapy, a view of Gaza, and more.

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Couldn't take any chances. I was here bright and early. Started in Victoria. I drove to the ferry, Uber to the airport. I'm cold, but I'm excited because I know they're going to win the World Series. I made a vow to my wife, but I love the Blue Jays. Let's go Blue Jays. Bring you home, baby. Bring you home. It may not be a must win for the Blue Jays, but it is a must watch for millions of Canadians, whether they're trekking to Toronto from across the country or cheering on from home.

Canada is on the baseball bandwagon, and tonight the World Series is on the line. Welcome to your world tonight. I'm Dave Seglins. It's Friday, October 31st, just before 6 p.m. Eastern. Also on the podcast. You know what they did was wrong. He was very nice. apologize for what they did with the commercial.

Because it was a false commercial, you know, it was the exact opposite. U.S. President Donald Trump still mad about an anti-tariff ad and still not ready to talk trade. But as Canada gets the cold shoulder from one trading partner, relations with another could be warming up. We now have a turning point in the relationship that creates opportunities for Canadian families. China, Canada, and new dialogue after years of troubled diplomacy. Even hardcore fans doubted they'd make it this far, but despite finishing last year in last place and a bad start to this season,

the Toronto Blue Jays are one win away from the history books. Up three games to two on the L.A. Dodgers in the World Series. Our Jamie Strassion is outside the Rogers Center. Jamie paint us a picture. What's going on there? right now. Dave, we also hear the term electric when you used to describe a crowd, but the crowd outside of Rogers Center right now, really off the charts. People have been lining up since about noon, eastern gates not opening until about three hours before the game. And when

you walk up and down the line, Dave, it's not just to feel from Toronto. You're talking to people from all across the country, people who have traveled from far away to be at one of those games that you want to say, I was there. It's really the perfect setting tonight in Toronto. Game 6, the Blue Jays a chance to win the World Series on a Friday night. It's Halloween. The pulse of downtown Toronto right now, nothing like I can remember seeing in my lifetime, certainly as a reporter here in Toronto,

went up and down the line, talking to some fans before, waiting to get inside. Here's what they told me. Oh, I'm going to scream my guts out. I am going to lose my voice. When we win, it's going to be epic. We'll be on the streets singing Backstreet Boys until all hours of the night.

It's amazing. We've been to so many games, World Series here. I want some life's opportunity. Hopefully not once a lifetime, but three years waiting, so go Blue Jays. It's just historic. I don't know when in my lifetime the next time I'm going to see this,

so I just thought I have to. Dave, you heard that last fan talk about this could be a historic moment. Obviously, this franchise has won two World Series in 1992 and 1993. It was 1993 that they were able to to do it here in Toronto, hoping, obviously, to repeat that tonight here in game six. Let's move to On the Field. What are some storylines we should be following tonight for the Jays and Dodgers? I think first and foremost, we've got to look at the pitching matchup. It's a rematch of what we saw in game two

on the mound for Los Angeles Dodgers, Yoshinobu Yamamoto. To be perfectly frank, this guy has been near impossible to hit in the postseason. Batters have struggled even to put the ball in play. He shut down the Jays in game two, but no slouch on the mound for the Jays. Ace Kevin Gosman, who's been the heart and soul of this pitching staff all year. He's been great in the postseason as well. He's going to get the ball for the Blue Jays. The biggest question, Dave, around the lineup tonight, would George Springer play? George Springer really has been the most valuable player of this team all year, the heart and soul of that clubhouse.

He looked like he heard his back earlier in this series, and there was a question whether he was going to get back in for Blue Jay fans. Good news. He is in the lineup tonight. Here's manager John Schneider. He was pretty close in game five. I think having the extra day and a half helped. I think kind of just the feedback we got from him in the last couple days helped and watching him swing. So maybe a different story if this season has the potential to just be two games. If it had the potential to be another two weeks, maybe a little bit different. But he's ready to go. So, Dave, there you have it. Blue Jays have two chances to win the World Series. They're going to win tonight, and it's over. If they don't, we go to game seven tomorrow.

The good news is they have been one of the best home teams in baseball, the Rogers Center here in Toronto, with the raucous crowd, one of the most difficult places in baseball to play. All right, thanks, Jamie. Thanks, Dave, I appreciate it. CBC reporter Jamie Strassion. It's not just fans in Toronto glued to seats and screens tonight. Across the country, Blue Jays stars like Vladdy, George, and Trey are now household names and a remarkable postseason ride. Well, that has the Jays nationwide bandwagon ready to pop. She and Desjardin has that part of the story.

The Jays craze has reached the Arctic. We are all baseball. We actually canceled Halloween, and we said we're going all in for baseball. And that's been actually the hashtag of the Blue Jays. We want it all. So do we. The storehouse bar and grill in Icaloit is quiet ahead of game six, but manager Valerie Hill doesn't expect that'll last long.

It's become a hub for Jays fans here in Canada's northernmost city, with hundreds showing up to watch the games. It's insane that amount of people would come here just to cheer on the Jays with this positive energy that we have, and it's absolutely incredible to be a part of. Jay's merched dangles from the antler chandeliers, A neon blue concoction called the Vladdy bomb served on Jay's trays. And on the food menu? We had an Italian Grand Slam witch in honor of Vladdy's first Grand Slam.

It was the first in franchise postseason history and a defining moment for this Toronto Blue Jays team. Now just one win away from becoming World Series champions. And the Blue Jays' announcer Dan Shulman knows nothing is ever set in stone. But the record shows. Both times they've won the World Series. They've done it in six. They've got a lot of good history in game sixes in their career. I'm sure everybody would love them to do it tonight.

Including Rob Butler, the outfielder won with the Jays in 93. The winners and still world champions, the Toronto Blue Jays. And is still the only Canadian to ever win the World Series with the Canadian team. A title he hopes to soon share with Montreal-born, Vladimir Guerrero. Junior. I think it's unbelievable likelihood because the Blue Jays have Vladimir Guerrero. He is unbelievable. Breaking records, playing the game, like he's playing in his schoolier, like he knocked on the door and said, hey, let's go play some baseball against the Dodgers. A team on the cusp of so much history, and a country is on the edge of its seat.

From Prince Edward Islanders scooping up last-minute merch. I might have a new half, but I've been cheering for a long time. Take it home tonight. I think the Jays win at 6'4. I'm feeling very, very optimistic that their Jays are going to bring it back to Canada. They've done a great job so far, and go Jays go. Two Albertans flying in just for the game. Last second when the Jays won, I was like, Dad, called him. You want to go to Toronto, like literally last minute?

This whole country's going to go crazy. There are a team, too. After a season of bubbling excitement, everyone stands more than ready to Iraq. Celebrate one last win together and a very happy Blue Jays edition of Halloween. Xi and Desjardin, CBC News, Toronto. Coming right up, it's the ad that continues to divide. Canada and U.S. trade officials still aren't talking after an anti-tariff TV commercial. And the Prime Minister and China's president meet for the first time in years,

hoping to strengthen ties and smooth over a diplomatic rough patch. And later we'll have this story. Alcohol, nicotine, and opioids. Early evidence suggests that drug. like Uzampic might curb the appetite for more than just food. But scientists don't know why. There's a lot we don't know. In a lot of ways, these drugs are still unproven,

and the hype is outpacing the evidence. I'm health reporter Jennifer Yun, with the scientists trying to figure out if Uzampic is an anti-desire drug and what that could mean for treating addiction. That story later on your world tonight. U.S. tariffs on Canadian medium and heavy-duty trucks will come into effect tomorrow. 25% applied to a range of pickup, cargo, and transport trucks. Despite Canadian efforts, there has been no reprieve in Donald Trump's trade war.

Trade talks between the two countries are still on hold, and the U.S. President says he is still bothered by an anti-tariff ad from the Ontario government. Tom Perry has the details. Speaking to reporters aboard a lot of him, Air Force One, U.S. President Donald Trump bragged and boasted about the many successes he claims he made on his trip to Asia this week. The media with China was incredible. The media was Japan incredible. And the meeting was South Korea. Likewise. Incredible. All of them.

Prime Minister Mark Carney was also in Asia, meeting some of those same leaders. He and Trump crossed paths only briefly when they were seated across from one another at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in South Korea. But Trump said, says he's not ready to resume trade talks with Canada, even though he and Carney still get along. No, but I have a very good relationship. I like him a lot. But you know, what they did was wrong. He was very nice to apologize for what they did with the commercial because it was a false commercial. You know, it was the exact opposite. Ronald Reagan loved tariffs. The commercial that Trump claims infuriated him so much. He terminated trade talks and threatened a new 10% tariff on Canada

was bought and paid for by the government of Ontario to air in the U.S. When someone says let's impose tariffs on foreign imports, it looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. The ad used a 1987 radio address by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan to criticize tariffs, one of Trump's favorite political and economic tools. Trump called the ad fake and has repeatedly insisted Reagan, one of the architects of the original Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement was actually a big fan of tariffs. Ontario Premier Doug Ford has defended the ad and today warned in an opinion piece published in a Washington Post

that tariffs were testing Canada's long-standing partnership with the U.S. As for the Prime Minister's office, it's not said whether Carney has apologized for the ad as Trump claims. But Kevin Hassett, Trump's National Economic Council Director, says the ad isn't the only sore point for his boss, the U.S. President. He's tried to negotiate with the Canadians to get better deals for Americans, and they've been, frankly, rude and dismissive. And this is how it gets to where we are. Mark Carney has maintained from the get-go, Canada and the U.S. were making progress on trade, and that Canada is prepared to go back to the negotiating table whenever the U.S. is ready, though Trump, for whatever reason is not there yet.

Tom Perry, CBC News, Ottawa. As the U.S. President continues to push Canada away, officials in this country are trying to bring another economic superpower closer. Prime Minister Mark Carney held a bilateral meeting with the President of China. It happened on the sidelines of the APEC summit in South Korea, and it marks the first formal leader-to-leader contact between the two countries since 2017. Murray Brewster is traveling with the Prime Minister. Chinese President Xi Jinping, acknowledging the rift between his country and Canada,

saying Beijing wants to push the relationship back onto a healthy, sustainable path. He and Prime Minister Mark Carney met for almost 40 minutes. This meeting today is long overdue. Going into this high-stakes meeting, Carney tried to temper expectations, suggesting it was a door opener, a resetting of relations with China. We now have a turning point in the relationship, a turning point that creates opportunities for Canadian families, for Canadian businesses, and Canadian workers, and also creates a path to address current issues. But precisely what that path looks like is unclear. Chinese tariffs on Canadian canola and Canadian levies on Chinese electric vehicles remain in place.

The Prime Minister's office says both leaders told officials to move quickly to resolve outstanding trade issues and irritants. They're also going to look for solutions to, quote, sensitivities. And there are plenty of those, from tourism restrictions to Chinese bullying of diaspora communities. During the leaders' debate in last spring's federal election, Carney described China as the biggest foreign interference threat the country was facing. Well, I think part of it is a matter of timing. Jeff Nankabelle is with the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada

and he says Canada's deteriorating relationship with the United States has set the conditions for Canada and China to get past the bad blood that's been created. After the affair of the Meng Wancho, the two Michaels, I don't know, you know, I don't think there's a prime minister out there who would have been in a position to have some kind of a reset of the relationship immediately. So I think it's partially a question of timing, and we also have circumstance.

Carney's dialogue with Xi comes one day after the Chinese leader sat down with U.S. President Donald Trump, a meeting that dialed back the trade war between the two economic superpowers, for the time being. Goldie Haider, the Business Council of Canada, says the U.S. had a clear message to China this week. We're never going to be the best of friends. We are going to compete, but we're going to have to figure out how to do it. And if America's sending that signal, then it's clearly. an opportunity for Canada to say, well, we agree, and we're going to do the same thing. We're going to look out for ourselves as well. Carney has been invited to China for a state visit and further talks, and he says he'll go.

Murray Brewster, CBC News, Kiyangzhou, South Korea. Turkey's foreign minister says his country will host a meeting of Muslim nations next week. The focus will be the Gaza ceasefire. The first stage of the truce between Hamas and Israel has already faced serious challenges, and people in Gaza are still struggling to access food, clean water, and medicine. The CBC's Crystal Gomancing recently joined an Israeli Defence Force press trip into one part of the enclave, and she brings us this report. With the tires of the IDF Jeep churning up the dust on the path entering the outskirts of Gaza City,

the first signs of destruction come into view. Sajaya, in the area around it, was one of the hardest hit locations in Gaza. Now, a military base stands behind an invisible yellow line signifying Israeli control, looking out onto what was once one of the biggest, busiest neighborhoods in Gaza, an unencumbered view of utter devastation. Senior Israeli military officials say they wanted to take us to this location to show us what they said were, quote, the consequences of a terrorist organization setting up and waging a war from in, around and below,

civilian areas. Blocks and blocks of bombed out buildings, some still erect. Others in what appeared to be massive ashy mounds mixed with metal. The UN says more than 80% of all structures in the territory have either been destroyed or damaged in Israeli attacks over the course of the past two years, with multiple UN spokespeople describing it as hell on earth. Hamas has brought devastation on Israel and on Gaza.

Lieutenant Colonel Navda Shashan, is an IDF spokesperson, the only person we were permitted to speak with on the record. CBC accepted an invitation from the IDF to take a small group of journalists on a time-limited and location-specific embed on Tuesday. With independent access for media into Gaza banned by Israel since October 7th, this is the only way to see the destruction at a closer range for ourselves. As agreed, CBS. submitted video captured during the embed. The IDF did not request any changes.

What's Israel's role in cleaning this up in making it not a horrific scene? Before we can speak about the rehabilitation, which is an international effort that Israel is committed to, the first stage of the agreement needs to be held. The agreement says that within 72 hours, which passed two weeks ago already, Hamas needs to return all the hostages.

We didn't know it at the time when we entered Gaza, but an IDF soldier was killed in an attack behind the Yellow Line in Rafah. It led to Israel launching a series of reprisal strikes across the strip despite the ceasefire. More than 100 Palestinians were killed, according to the Hamas-run Civil Defense Agency. In nearby Jabalya, Bilal Rahan is squeezed into a tiny opening in the rubble, a mallet and trowel in hand. The area is also a debris-field. beyond where we were permitted to be. Rahan speaks with a freelance video journalist working for CBC.

He's scavenging the ruins for clothes, household items, and maybe dead loved ones. Two of his cousins, he said, are somewhere under the rubble. The question for many across Gaza is where to start looking, given the swath of devastation. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, Sajaya Gaza. Opposition Leader Pierre Palliev and the premiers of Ontario and Quebec say Ottawa should reject a Supreme Court decision on mandatory minimum sentences. The court ruled mandatory minimums for possession and access to child pornography are unconstitutional. Justice Mary Morrow said,

some offenses, a one-year sentence would be grossly disproportionate. Pauliev says the federal government should invoke the notwithstanding clause to ignore the ruling. Popular GLP1 drugs like OZempec are curbing people's appetites and not just for food, but also alcohol, cigarettes, and opioids. And while that might sound like a great way to treat addiction, scientists caution, there's still a lot we don't know about the medications. Jennifer Yun brings us up to date on the latest research. This is a can I've had now for four years on the shelf. A can of beer left untouched for years. Mike McCleskey says that would have been unthinkable before OZMPIC.

I was known as, you know, a heavy drinker. On OZMPIC, the Dartmouth-Nove Scotia man lost 110 pounds. Unexpectedly, he also lost his appetite for alcohol. No, there's no desire. That's just it. It just doesn't even enter my mind. He's not alone. Coming through past patient data, researchers have found those who take drugs like OZMUZM. Zempic and Zepbound for type 2 diabetes and weight loss seem to want less and consume less of all

kinds of things, not just food. That includes addictive substances like alcohol, nicotine, and even opioids. Scientists don't know exactly why. In a lot of ways, these drugs are still unproven and the hype is outpacing the evidence. But they've got some ideas, says James McKillop, an addiction researcher at McMaster University. That's the working hypothesis, that basically it's having a blunting effect on that spike in dopamine. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter released in the brain when you do something enjoyable. It also motivates you to repeat that action. In one of the few small clinical trials done so far,

researchers put one group of heavy drinkers on semi-glutide, the active ingredient for Rosempec, and compared them to a group-given placebos. It did reduce how much they were drinking. Christian Hendershot is the co-author of the study, published in the peer-reviewed journal JAMA Psychiatry. His study found people on semi-glutide had fewer heavy drinking days than those who weren't. So the next step is to really test these effects in larger samples, larger numbers of people.

And it's important to extend these findings over longer treatment periods. Still, those treating people with addiction like Dr. Sanjeev Sokolingham at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto are feeling cautious optimism. I think we have some good signals and we definitely need greater treatments. available for addictions and addiction's treatment. I really would encourage us to make sure that we have the evidence-based for this. As researchers look into the drug's potential for treating addiction, they're also worried about another possible side effect, that the drugs could blunt all desire, even for healthy things. Motivation for physical activity, motivation for socializing. A key part of addiction's recovery, McKillop says, is a healthy lifestyle, which depends on the

pleasure people find in life, like exercise, hobbies, and the company of loved ones. Jennifer Yun, CBC News, Toronto. Private clinics offering intravenous therapy have popped up all over Canada, and they promise all kinds of health benefits from boosting energy to beating a hangover, even balancing hormones. But some health experts warn the infusions come with significant risks and not enough regulations. Lauren Pelley explains. My client booked in for a glutathion and vitamin C IV drip.

Social media is filled with ads for intravenous therapy, cocktails of vitamins and supplements that cost hundreds of dollars and get injected right into someone's veins. The growth that you're seeing probably is in part because there is so little regulatory oversight. Dr. Joseph Ross is with the Yale School of Medicine. He's part of a research team that recently studied the booming business. of IV therapy south of the border. They found less than a third of clinics required consultation with a licensed medical professional before treatment or described the potential health risks.

Those include possible cross-contamination, adverse reactions, or even serious infections. If consumers are going to go off and use these, particularly often without their doctors even knowing that they're using these, we have to make sure the safeguards are in place that nobody gets hurt. CBC News found private IV clinics on this side of the border often fall into a regulatory gray zone as well. Health Canada authorizes intravenous health products while a patchwork of provincial watchdogs monitor workers

such as naturopaths, physicians or registered nurses. In Ontario, the College of Naturopaths even operates an inspection program specifically for IV clinics given the level of risk. Which arm would you like to before? At a wellness center in Mississauga, naturopathial and Adeshko says her team members adhere to strict safety standards for their IV offerings, including a sterile environment, patient exams, and vital checks. We are regulated by the college and we go through inspections with the college prior to providing this treatment to patients.

But Deshko worries that's not the case everywhere. She says a recent customer told her she passed out during a session at a different facility after being given a partially frozen IV bag. And this really concerns us as the providers of this treatment because it can be very dangerous for the patient. Unfortunately, I think these IV clinics, they're falling through the cracks. Timothy Caulfield is one of Canada's top experts on health and wellness trends. The University of Alberta professor says the biggest issue

is there's often no evidence backing up claims about IV therapy's long list of possible health benefits. In fact, I think that these products should be viewed as a major. your red flag. Doctors told us if you're sick, seek medical advice. And if you're healthy, there's typically no need for any type of IV therapy. Lauren Pelley, CBC News, Toronto. And we'll end tonight with a bit more on the Toronto Blue Jays. Game 6 in Toronto and a chance to win the World Series. And just about on any other day, this would be the main event. But tonight, there's competition. I want it all.

The blue tape or the AL East champs. Social media is full of funny takes about tonight's matchup on the calendar. Unofficial PSAs like this one advising kids, the candies on the porch, and we're all watching baseball. Trick-or-treat! First pitch tonight around 8 o'clock Eastern. Now, in Eastern and Atlantic time zones, that's not bad. Newfoundland, even better.

Trick-or-treating should be winding down. But moving west, the Jays are up against prime trick-or-treating time, setting up tonight's great Canadian dilemma. A decision as difficult as a late-inning call to the bullpen. Home runs or Halloween? I think that's a very good question for any parent. I can tell you that my son is definitely conflicted because he wants a bag of candy, but he also wants to watch the baseball game.

I'll just, I was planning to go to Halloween party, but that's just going to turn into a watch party. Go, blue chase goes. It's Halloween all the way. No fans. I love the Blue Jays, but you know, you can record the game. You can't record Halloween. Get home early. We want trick-or-treating to end by 8 o'clock tonight. And for those baseball fans who can't manage to get home early, another social media meme. Canadian parents trick-or-treating with their kids instead of watching the World Series.

We don't want to be here. We didn't ask for this. As fierce as the Blue Jays have been playing, kids on Halloween are pretty much unbeatable. So wherever the night takes you, we hope you enjoy. Halloween and the baseball game, consider it a double-header. Thanks for being with us. This has been your world tonight for Friday, October 31st. I'm Dave Seglance. Take care.

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