Carney goes to Washington, Alberta teachers strike, heat wave and an ocean blob, and more

Summary

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Your World Tonight — Episode Summary

Date: October 6, 2025
Hosts: Susan Bonner, Stephanie Skenderis
Podcast: CBC News

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Brief Overview

This episode of Your World Tonight covers the day’s biggest stories with a focus on diplomacy, labor strife, climate extremes, and a dash of sports history. Major topics include Prime Minister Mark Carney's tense trip to Washington over U.S. tariffs, Alberta’s landmark teacher strike, optimism and sticking points in Israel-Hamas ceasefire talks, a dangerous blizzard stranding trekkers on Mount Everest, and a record-breaking performance by Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Trey Yasavic.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Mark Carney’s High-Stakes Visit to Washington

[00:43–05:03]

• Trade Tensions and Uncertainty

  • PM Mark Carney travels to Washington, seeking resolution on escalating U.S. tariffs threatening Canadian jobs.
  • Carney hopes for dialogue, not necessarily a breakthrough—“working visit” prioritized over expectations for a deal.
  • U.S. President Trump claims tariffs are achieving multiple goals:

    “If I didn’t have the power of tariffs, you would have at least four of the seven wars raging. I use tariffs to stop wars.”
    —Donald Trump [02:40]

• Canadian Perspectives and Political Jockeying

  • Ontario Premier Doug Ford, wary of unpredictability:

    “You never know what comes out of a meeting with President Trump. He’ll say one thing one day and change his mind the next day.”
    —Doug Ford [03:26]

  • Opposition criticizes the trip as potentially fruitless; government defends responding to the White House’s invitation.
  • Domestic concerns rise as new U.S. tariffs on trucks set for November, with impact on Canada unclear.

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2. Alberta Teachers Strike: Historic Walkout

[05:03–08:35]

• Massive Impact
  • Unprecedented province-wide teachers strike begins: 51,000 teachers off the job, 750,000 kids out of school.
• Core Issues
  • Main grievances: class sizes, lack of supports for students with special needs, wages.
  • The government’s offer: 12% raise over four years, 3,000 new teachers, 1,500 educational assistants—rejected by the union.
• On the Ground
  • Parents anxious about arranging childcare.

    “It’s difficult because we both work…and have grandparents, but they’re not always able to take care of our kids.”
    —Parent [06:18]

  • Teachers highlight overcrowded classrooms:

    “I’ve seen…41 kids in each class. I can’t do my job to the best of my ability under these working conditions.”
    —David Kleiman, teacher [07:04]

• Stalemate and Tensions
  • Province offers parents $30/day per child under 12 during strike—a move teachers call “outrageous.”
  • Lockout notice issued against the union; no resolution in sight.

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3. Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Talks: Glimmers of Hope

[08:35–12:27]

• Negotiations Resume Amid Anniversaries
  • Indirect ceasefire talks begin in Egypt ahead of the second anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attacks.
  • Optimism rooted in unprecedented U.S. pressure; Trump “has given Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu no choice” but to negotiate [10:18].
• Key Sticking Points
  • Hostage swaps (20 Israelis for Palestinian prisoners), withdrawal of Israeli troops, and disarmament of Hamas discussed.
  • Hamas resists full disarmament and handing over all hostages without tangible movement toward a Palestinian state; Netanyahu rejects Palestinian statehood.
• Global Spotlight and Uncertainty
  • Both sides tentatively accept the Trump plan but major differences persist.

  • “Those differences have really stalled previous talks and they may do the same again. But Trump says we will see progress in a few days.”
    —Sasha Petrusik [11:56]

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4. Life Amid War: Two Years After Kibbutz Be’eri Attack

[12:30–15:45]

• Enduring Grief and Trauma
  • Profile of Kibbutz Be’eri, devastated by the 2023 Hamas attack: 102 killed, 32 abducted.
  • Survivors and family members share memories and sorrow:

    “Even two years after, I don’t actually understand why they did what they did.”
    —Resident [14:12]

  • Former hostages and residents plead for peace and the safe return of remaining captives.

    “I hope that all the 48 hostages will come back…and our nation and their people will get a chance to recover.”
    —Ohad Ben Ami, former hostage [15:33]

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5. French PM Resigns and Political Fallout

[15:45–16:57]

• Global Political Instability
  • France’s PM Sebastien Lecornu resigns after less than a month, increasing pressure on President Macron amidst parliamentary gridlock and looming budget crisis.

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6. Trump vs. U.S. Cities: The National Guard and Legal Battles

[16:57–19:36]

• Escalation Over Federal Troops
  • Trump openly considers using the Insurrection Act after courts block National Guard deployments to “Democratic-run” cities like Portland.
  • Chicago joins legal fight against federal intervention:

    "I'm calling on this president to leave us the freak alone."
    —Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson [18:47] “Donald Trump’s deranged depiction of Chicago as a hellhole was just complete BS.”
    —Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker [18:55]

• Political and Legal Drama
  • Protests, local resistance, and accusations of political manipulation at play; legal confrontation just beginning.

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7. Record Heat, Ocean Blob, and Climate Worries

[19:36–22:18]

• Unprecedented Fall Heatwave
  • Summer-like conditions in Ontario and Quebec break temperature records by up to 6°C.
• Meteorological Insights
  • Scientists attribute the anomaly to a “marine heat blob” in the Pacific affecting the jet stream.

    “What the theory is right now is that because of these very warm areas in the Pacific region, we’re having this impact on the jet stream."
    —Lualawi Admassou, UBC [21:06]

• Wider Impacts
  • Ripple effects include intensified drought, wildfire risk, and disruption to marine and agricultural systems:

    “It affects also marine life, marine ecosystems…many people are dependent on the ocean directly for food, for culture, for livelihood.”
    —William Chung, UBC [21:54]

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8. Everest Rescue: Tourists Trapped by Early Blizzard

[22:18–24:54]

• Crisis at High Altitude
  • Rare blizzard strands hundreds of trekkers (not climbers) on Everest during China’s national holidays.
  • Local and external rescue teams work against blocked roads and avalanche risk.
• Perspective from Experts
  • Weather’s unpredictability and the influx of tourists without high-altitude experience worsened the crisis.

    "These were not climbers…these were not people that were planning on going to high altitudes."
    —Mike Mulroney, Nova Scotia mountaineer [23:50]

  • Entry to the area halted until all are rescued.

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9. Jays Breakout Star: Trey Yasavic Makes History

[24:54–26:57]

• Sports Highlight
  • 22-year-old Trey Yasavic delivers a historic postseason pitching performance for the Toronto Blue Jays in a 13-7 win over the Yankees.
  • Fans award him an “unofficial” curtain call:

    “You guys are rocking. The city’s awesome, and I love you guys.”
    —Trey Yasavic [25:54]

  • Yasavic credits family support and celebrates national attention as the Jays look to sweep the series.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Trump’s Tariffs and Diplomacy:

  “If I didn’t have the power of tariffs, you would have at least four of the seven wars raging. I use tariffs to stop wars.”
  —Donald Trump [02:40]

• On Overcrowded Classrooms in Alberta:

  “I can’t do my job to the best of my ability under these working conditions. And that’s what we’re fighting for.”
  —David Kleiman, teacher [07:12]

• On Peace Prospects in Gaza:

  “Trump says we will see progress in a few days. Others say it could take a week or more before it’s clear if the optimism is justified—and the whole world is watching.”
  —Sasha Petrusik [11:56]

• On Climate and Ocean Warming:

  “It affects precipitation, that affects agriculture. It also makes the forest drier. That can lead to increase the risk of forest fire.”
  —William Chung, UBC [21:43]

• On Blue Jays’ Historic Baseball Night:

  “You guys are rocking. The city’s awesome, and I love you guys.”
  —Trey Yasavic [25:54]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Segment | Start | End | |-----------------------------------------------|------------|------------| | Carney in Washington/U.S. Tariffs | 00:43 | 05:03 | | Alberta Teachers Strike | 05:03 | 08:35 | | Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Talks | 08:35 | 12:27 | | Kibbutz Be’eri—Life After Attack | 12:30 | 15:45 | | France’s Prime Minister Resigns | 15:45 | 16:57 | | Trump vs. Cities/National Guard | 16:57 | 19:36 | | Heat Wave and Ocean Blob | 19:36 | 22:18 | | Everest Blizzard Strands Trekkers | 22:18 | 24:54 | | Blue Jays and Trey Yasavic | 24:54 | 26:57 |

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Tone and Language

The episode delivers news with urgency, empathy, and clarity, using direct quotes and voices from diplomats, teachers, survivors, scientists, officials, and a sports star. The reporting balances analysis, first-hand testimony, and contextual explanations throughout.

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End of Summary

Transcript

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Did you know that it was once illegal to shop on Sundays? That's true for when I was born. I remember this.

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And I'm not that old. I'm not.

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Okay, leave me alone. Anyway, I'm Faelan Johnson and I host CU In Court, a new podcast about the cases that changed Canada and the ordinary people who drove that change. From the drugstore owner who defied the Lord's day to the Mi' Kmaq man who defended his treaty right to fish, to the gay teacher who got fired and fought back. Find and follow. See you in court wherever you get your podcasts.

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This is a CBC podcast. What are you hoping for in Washington? Prime Minister G'.

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Day.

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What are you hoping for out of what?

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Your trip to Washington, Prime Minister I'm looking forward to meeting the president, making.

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Another crucial diplomatic push in D.C. as Mark Carter As Carney heads to Washington looking for a break in Donald Trump's trade war, the US Slaps on new tariffs. This on top of a new round last week. And with thousands more Canadian jobs at stake, some have doubts whether the White House is ready to make any serious change at all.

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Well, I guess he's going to ask about tariffs because a lot of companies from Canada are moving into the United States.

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You know, welcome to youo World Tonight. I'm Susan Bonner. It is Monday, October 6, just before 6pm Eastern. Also on the podcast, our oldest child.

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Is a high needs student and just in the last two years that he's been in the public school system, we've.

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Seen kind of a surprising decline in.

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The amount of supports that's offered thousands.

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Of teachers out of the classroom, parents scrambling for childcare, and a serious rift between the Alberta government and the union as the largest teacher strike in the province's history kicks off. Mark Carney is in Washington, D.C. this evening for another high stakes meeting with U.S. president Donald Trump. There are lots of questions about just how much Carney can get out of this visit. With Trump talking new tariffs, expectations are low and frustrations high. CBC's Katherine Cullen has details.

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Well, I guess he's going to ask about tariffs because a lot of companies from Canada are moving into the United States.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney was mid flight to Washington, D.C. hoping to talk to the U.S. president about dropping at least some tariffs, when Donald Trump told reporters not only are tariffs making the US Wealthy, he claimed they're solving conflicts.

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If I didn't have the power of tariffs, you would have at least four of the seven wars raging. I use tariffs to stop wars.

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The Prime Minister's office has been trying to keep expectations in check about his lunch meeting with the US President. There's been no talk of a deal to end U.S. tariffs. Instead, a news release calls this a working visit focused on shared priorities.

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I'm looking forward to meeting the president.

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Before leaving Ottawa, the prime minister told reporters there was more than just trade on the agenda, everything from foreign affairs to economics. Bringing up foreign affairs, too. Carney's pitch has long been for a new economic and security relationship with the.

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I don't want the prime minister in there getting bullied.

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Ontario's premier observed this morning that meetings with the U.S. president can go sour.

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You know I'll be very blunt. You never know what comes out of a meeting with President Trump. He'll say one thing one day and change his mind the next day.

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But Doug Ford says he's still optimistic.

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I'm confident that the prime minister is going to go in there and do a great job. Of course, in the last few weeks it didn't go in the right direction.

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Quebec Premier Francois Legault points out things have in fact gotten worse for Canada lately in turke of US Tariffs, noting just last week Trump raised tariffs on lumber and wood products. Just today Trump posted online about moving on another tariff, 25% on medium and heavy duty trucks. The president says it will come into force on November 1st. Any implications or exemptions for Canada? Not yet clear.

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They only spy.

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We hope that Mark Carney will succeed in convincing Donald Trump to reduce some tariffs, says the Quebec premier. During question period, Conservative leader Pierre Poliev sounded less hopeful.

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Surely after promising to negotiate a win to have a deal by July 21, the Prime Minister is not flying all the way to Washington D.C. just to.

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Have lunch, an idea quickly dismissed by Minister of Canada U.S. trade Dominic LeBlanc.

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Mr. Speaker was the leader of the opposition suggesting if the president of the United States invites you to go to Washington for a meeting and a working lunch, we should have just said no and hung the phone up.

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Polly have retorted. He's suggesting Carney deliver results that likely hinges in good part on the behavior tomorrow of an unpredictable US President. Katherine Cullen, CBC News, Ottawa.

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The federal government is ending the long held tradition of presenting its budget in the spring. Instead, it will be tabled in the fall with a smaller economic update released in spring. Finance Minister Francois Philippe Champagne says a fall federal budget will better aligned with the parliamentary calendar, construction season and with other G7 countries. Budget day is November 4. It is the first province wide teacher strike in Alberta's history and after One day, there's little clarity on when it might end. Some 51,000 teachers are off the job. Nearly three quarters of a million kids are out of school. Julia Wong explains why and what's at stake in a stalemate between teachers and.

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The province, Alberta schools should be bustling, but classrooms and playgrounds are unusually quiet. Sort of we're going to survival mode, I guess. Tens of thousands of Alberta parents are scrambling to find care for their young children like Aiden Forth and Kelly Summers, who have a daughter in grade three and son in grade six.

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So we've been kind of preparing for that as best we can, but it's difficult because we both work and we.

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Have grandparents, but they're not always able.

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To take care of our kids.

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Employers offered a 12% raise over four years, a promise to add 3,000 new teachers and 1,500 educational assistants over the next few years. But teachers rejected it. At the heart of the issue for the union, classroom sizes, more supports for students with complexities and wages.

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So today is not a day that any of us wanted, but it's a day that regrettably became necessary.

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Students are falling through the cracks, says Alberta Teachers association president Jason Schilling.

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We have classes that are so crowded that students don't feel like they're getting that one on one attention they deserve to get from a teacher. This is not what we want, but this is what we need to do for public education.

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David Kleiman has been a teacher in Calgary for five years.

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It is beyond unacceptable what I've seen in my classroom of 41 kids in each class.

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I do as much as I can to get to know my students and support my students, but I know that I can't do my job to the best of my own ability under these working conditions. And that's what we're fighting for. The province is offering parents $30 a day for every child 12 and under while the strike lasts. Kleiman, who is also a parent, calls the payments outrageous. That is an attempt at extending the length of this strike so that students.

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Stay out of school longer.

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We are always ready to go back to the bargaining table. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith speaking in Montreal. The teachers set this arbitrary deadline of.

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October 6th and we've asked them to.

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Call off the strike and to come back to negotia. We don't think we're that far apart. We think our wage offer is very fair. Mid afternoon Monday, the teachers employers serve the union with a lockout notice set to start Thursday for the summer's fourth family. They were able to enroll their kids into nearby day camps. I get to sleep in, but then I don't get recess. But even son Rupert in grade six understands things are not normal. Usually. Like, I always hate going to school, but then when you take it away, it just feels like so much different, a feeling he and more than 700,000 other students have to get used to until both sides can come to an agreement. Julia Wong, CBC News, Edmonton.

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Coming right up, a day ahead of the second anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, ceasefire talks are beginning in Egypt. There are new hopes for the release of Israeli hostages and the end of the war in Gaza, but it's not a done deal. Later, we'll have this story.

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Hundreds of people have been rescued from the base of Mount Everest after being trapped by unseasonably heavy snow. But hundreds more remain. I would say it's very much just a waiting game. They've been snowed in. I'm Jamie Strachan in Toronto with the story of a rescue at the world's tallest mountain. Coming up on YOUR WORLD tonight.

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Indirect talks between Israel and Hamas have begun in Egypt to hash out details on a US Drafted peace plan. The talks on the eve of the second anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel that led to the war in Gaza. Hopes have been raised for the return of the remaining Israeli hostages and an end to the war, but there are still plenty of potential obstacles to overcome. Sasha Petrusik is in Jerusalem. Sasha, what is the latest on the talks?

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Well, Susan, negotiators and mediators are in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el Sheikh tonight. And the signals from all sides are probably as optimistic as they've been in months. Here in Israel and in Gaza itself, people are also pretty much hopeful about the war ending. They're discussing that. But the immediate issue is the release of the remaining hostages, 20 of them alive, in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in Israel's jails. There's also the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and the disarmament of Hamas to be discussed. And that's just in the short term. So why are things now moving? Is the question? I guess it seems to be about the personal involvement and a lot of pressure from US President Donald Trump. He has said that he's given Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu no choice but to go along with this. And he's also threatened Hamas with hell to pay if they don't take this seriously. Interestingly, though, even though the negotiations have started, Israel's chief negotiator won't be there for a day or two, and neither will Trump's top envoys. It seems key players are hedging their bets.

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So, Sasha, there is optimism. They are talking, but there are those sticking points. What are the key sticking points that need to be resolved before this becomes reality?

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Yeah, that's right, Susan. I mean, both sides have said yes to the Trump plan, but they're also disputing parts of it. Hamas is reluctant to release all the hostages, the group's only real bargaining chips. With Israeli troops still inside Gaza, the Trump plan calls for them to start to pull back and to get out eventually. But Netanyahu has insisted that they will remain deep inside the strip for the foreseeable future. Hamas is also balked at disarming before there are guarantees of Palestinian control of Gaza and clear movement toward a Palestinian state. The Trump plan suggests both of those. But Netanyahu has said Israel will never accept a Palestinian state. So those differences have really stalled previous talks and they may do the same again. But Trump says we will see progress in a few days. Others say it could take a week or more before it's clear if the optimism is justified and the whole world is watching.

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Sasha, thank you.

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My pleasure, Susan.

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Sasha Petrosek In Jerusalem tonight, Kibbutz Barry on Gaza's eastern border was once known for its peace activism. But on October 7, 2023, it was a war zone. Hamas led militants attacked and killed 102 of its residents and took 32 others host those losses were among the worst anywhere. That day, Paul Hunter visited the community still struggling to recover and desperately hoping for peace.

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At Kibbutz Be', Eri, not far from the Gaza Strip. Two years after the October 7 attacks, it remains a testament to the horror of that day. With Israel's war on Hamas in Gaza ever since, it's a reminder to the world again how the war began. This week, international media including CBC were invited into what's left of the kibbutz. The scars still in plain sight. Burnt homes, bullet holes through windows and walls. The debris of torn lives everywhere. When the terrorists came inside our house.

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Tried to bomb our door, I was in my house with my husband and my three kids.

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Miri Gadmasika's family survived that day, but more than 100 of her neighbors were killed. One in 10 residents, including Israeli Canadian peace activist Vivian silver. More than 30 others were kidnapped, grabbed from their homes, pushed into cars and taken to Gaza. And when they didn't have enough room in the car, they just executed them just like this with no reason.

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Even two years after I don't. Actually, I don't understand why they did what they did.

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I really don't. Sorry. When alarms rang out that morning, families ran into barricaded safe rooms in some Hamas attackers forced their way in regardless, using rocket grenades, assault rifles and hammers. I was sitting on the bed and my wife, she was sitting on the floor with a blanket on her. What are you thinking at that moment? That now it's my time to die? Ohad Ben Ami and his wife were both kidnapped, his wife released after 54 days. He was held for 491 days, mostly underground somewhere in Gaza. We slept. He showed us what's left of his place, the smashed remnants of life before October 7. But he told us his thoughts are always with those still being held, those who may now soon finally be freed. If the proposed US Peace deal is agreed upon, I hope that all the 48 hostages will come back to their families and our nation and their people will get a chance to recover. For the hostages, he says, for Israel and for all those in Gaza not part of the attacks, now caught in the suffering, this war must end. Paul Hunter, CBC News, at Kibbutz Be' eri near the Israel Gaza border.

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France's prime minister has abruptly resigned after less than a month in office. Sebastien Lecornu stepped down just hours after announcing his cabinet, making his administration the shortest lived in modern French history. The move puts more pressure on President Emmanuel Macron to call snap elections or possibly step down. For more than a year, French parliament has been bitterly divided and unable to agree on spending cuts and pass a budget to reduce the country's ballooning deficit. This is yous World Tonight from CBC News. If you want to make sure you stay up to date and 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. Donald Trump upped the ante this afternoon in his fight with Democratic run cities over the use of the National Guard. After one court ordered the deportation deployments to stop and more lawsuits were launched, the US President raised the specter of using the Insurrection act to get what he wants. Ashley Burke has details from Washington.

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Protesters and authorities in Portland clashing overnight. The city's mayor says federal agents have been inflaming otherwise peaceful protests outside immigration enforcement offices using unjustified force impact munitions and pepper spray. Donald Trump says scenes like that are why he needs to send in federal troops.

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I believe that the Portland people are scared. It's a burning hellhole.

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The president in the Oval Office this Afternoon firing back at a federal judge's decision to block him not once but twice from sending in National Guard troops to Portland.

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You have a judge that lost her way, that tries to pretend that like there's no problem.

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That judge appointed by Trump says the president directly contravened her first court order, so she expanded it. The judge ruled that Portland's protests were not very violent or disruptive, and Trump's claims of daily civil unrest were simply untethered to the facts. The president now seems to be suggesting he's open to using the Insurrection act at some point if needed.

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Well, I'd do it if it was necessary. So far, it hasn't been necessary. I'd do that if people were being killed and courts were holding us up, or governors or mayors were holding us up.

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The White House is appealing the decision in Portland as part of a flurry of moves that's left governors in other cities, including Chicago, scrambling to try and stop the deployment of troops.

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We will use every single tool that is available to us.

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Chicago's mayor, Brandon Johnson, says his city and the state have now sued the Trump administration, too.

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I'm calling on this president to leave us the freak alone.

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Illinois's governor, J.B. pritzker, with some strong words, too.

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Donald Trump's deranged depiction of Chicago as a hellhole was just complete bs.

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He says federal agents are targeting peaceful protesters so Trump can send troops into.

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Their city, make it seem like peaceful protesters are a mob by firing gas pellets and tear gas canisters at them. Why? To create the pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act.

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Chicago's mayor says the lawsuits send a message that his city will not be intimidated and used as a political prop. But this legal showdown has just begun. Ashley Burke, CBC News, Washington.

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For parts of Ontario, Quebec and eastern Canada, it felt more like summer than fall. This weekend, people flocked outdoors in cities like Toronto, Montreal and Fredericton as the thermometer neared high summer temperatures. But as senior science reporter Nicole Mortalero reports, while Canadians made the most of the heat, scientists say they're worried having.

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To suffer through the winter all the time. I'm personally loving it.

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Everything is dry as a bone everywhere.

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It's not normal and it's very scary.

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That's how some people in Montreal viewed the unusually warm weather this past weekend, where the temperature reached 30 degrees Celsius. In Sudbury, Ontario, the heat was also on with a high of nearly 30 degrees Celsius, its average temperature at this time of year 12. Jeff Colson, a warning preparedness meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada noted just how warm it's been.

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High temperature records may be broken by a fraction of a degree or maybe a degree or two at most. But seeing some of these temperature records broken in parts of northeastern and eastern Ontario by 4, 5, 6 degrees is very unusual.

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The culprit behind this anomalous warmth is believed to lie thousands of kilometers away. The Pacific Ocean. Lualawi Admassou from the University of British Columbia said the heat in the Pacific Ocean is getting warmer under climate change, and it's believed that it can affect the jet stream, a rushing river of air in the upper atmosphere that separates warm and cold air, which in turn can drive weather patterns.

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What the theory is right now is that because of these very warm areas in the Pacific region, we're having this impact on the jet stream. So what that means is that the weather systems will be pushed northward, and when we have these lows and highs coming through to the US And Canada, they're going to be affecting our weather.

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William Chung, a professor and director at the Institute for Oceans and Fisheries at the University of British Columbia, said while some people may enjoy prolonged summer like weather, it comes with consequences.

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It affects precipitation, that affects agriculture. It also makes the forest drier. That can lead to increase the risk.

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Of forest fire, and that's not to mention the effects that the unusually hot Pacific Ocean has on aquatic life, he said.

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It affects also marine life, marine ecosystems, and also it affects people because many people are dependent on the ocean directly for food, for culture, for livelihood.

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After today, temperatures across Canada are expected to return to more seasonal values for some time, and Canadians can return to enjoying the fall colors at cooler temperatures. Nicole Mortalero, CBC News, Toronto.

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A rescue effort is underway to reach some 200 people stranded on Mount Everest. They were snowed in over the weekend after a rare blizzard during peak climbing season. Jamie Strashen explains why it seemed to catch so many off guard. On the world's highest mountain.

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Up against the eastern face of Mount Everest, hundreds of trekkers are guided to safety by rescuers after being stranded by unseasonably heavy snow. Rescue crews have made contact with about 200 others also caught up in the nasty weather that's battered the area. I would say it's very much just a waiting game. They've been snowed in to ensure that while they're waiting, they do so in a safe area where the avalanche risk is low. International mountain expedition leader Nick Hollis says October is usually the peak season to enjoy the lush forests and trails that make up this part of the Everest region, many visitors and tour groups currently in the area are taking advantage of an eight day national holiday in China. The heavy snow has blocked roads, making it difficult for rescuers and local villagers who are helping to reach those who are trapped. Rescue teams coming from the lowland working their way up, the challenge for them is going to be punching their way through the fresh snow on the road. So initially that might be slow, but as time goes on that again will be an improving picture, Hollis says. For those stranded, it's a question of whether they have adequate tents, sleeping bags and food supplies until help arrives. These were not people that were planning on going to high altitudes that had those skills or capabilities. Nova Scotia's Mike Mulroney knows the area well. Having reached everest summit in 2019, he points out that in this case the hundreds of people stranded were not trying to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, but likely more inexperienced trekkers, part of large tourist groups. Can't speak for the capabilities of anybody that's trapped, but of course we do have to differentiate that these were not climbers. He also says that the weather in the area can change quickly, catching even the most experienced climbers off guard. It's highly influenced by the monsoons. Basically you come up against a wall and that's where all the precipitation stops. It doesn't surprise me that a storm can hit like this. It just happened that there was a lot of people that needed to be accommodated. Authorities have stopped any further trekkers from entering the area until the weather clears and everyone can be safely rescued. Jamie Strashen, CBC News, Toronto.

[C]

Finally tonight.

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He got another one. Just a hint of a strut coming off the mound here in the fifth. That is 11 strikeouts through five remarkable innings.

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That was the call on Sportsnet as 22 year old pitcher Trey Esavich made Blue Jays history, throwing the most post season strikeouts ever en route to another Toronto win in the American League Division series. Following the 137 win over the New York Yankees Sunday, Yousavich thanked the frenzied Rogers center crowd.

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Let's bring in the man of the hour. Canadians don't give curtain calls to just anyone. How did you feel about being told to come back out here and acknowledging this fan base?

[B]

It was awesome. You guys are rocking. The city's awesome and I love you guys.

[C]

Yasavic's story has captivated fans across the country and Major League Baseball called his performance one of the greatest in Blue Jays history. The game also saw Yasavic break the record as the youngest Blue Jays playoff starter ever. He credits his family, who traveled from Pennsylvania, for the game.

[A]

They're my people.

[B]

They're the reason I'm here right now. I couldn't love them more. Mom, dad, Cole, Chase, you're at college. I love you guys.

[C]

With the Blue Jays up to nothing in the series, Yasavic and his many new fans just want to see the playoff magic continue. The Blue Jays have a chance to sweep the Yankees in the Bronx on Tuesday. Thanks for joining us. This has been youn World Tonight for Monday, October 6th. I'm Susan Bonner. Talk to you again.

[B]

The Blue Jays get a remarkable performance from Trey Savage and offense everywhere as they beat the Yankees 13 to 7. And they're going to take a 20 lead. For more CBC podcasts, go to CBC CA podcasts.