Israel/Hamas ceasefire concerns, French crown jewels stolen, Alberta teacher's strike, and more

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Your World Tonight (CBC)

Episode Date: October 19, 2025
Hosts: Stephanie Skanderas, Susan Bonner
Duration: ~31 minutes

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Overview

This episode of "Your World Tonight" delivers an incisive round-up of global and Canadian news, focusing on the fragile Israel/Hamas ceasefire, a sensational jewel heist at the Louvre, Alberta’s enduring teachers’ strike, alternatives to incarceration for Indigenous people in B.C., and additional stories including the Toronto Blue Jays' playoff run, trade tensions over softwood lumber, and the push for sustainable wool. The episode offers context and analysis, centering on the human impact behind the headlines.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Israel/Hamas Ceasefire on the Brink

[01:05 – 04:46, 04:46 – 06:09]

• The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is under strain after Israel launches new strikes in Gaza, citing retaliatory actions for Hamas firing on soldiers.
• Both sides accuse each other of violating the truce:
  • Israel says Hamas fired an anti-tank missile and gunfire at Israeli troops in Rafah.
  • Hamas denies responsibility and claims to uphold the ceasefire, accusing Israel of continuing to attack Palestinians.
• Aid shipments into Gaza are suspended, reportedly until Monday due to U.S. pressure.
• At least 40 Palestinians have died in recent strikes, with hospital resources strained.
• Israeli Defense Minister threatens Hamas with a "heavy price" for breaches but signals a possible pause in military actions.
• Quote:
  • "We were sitting in a cafe drinking tea and coffee... suddenly we heard the news. They were hit and bombed and everyone was killed." – Sali Salman (Eyewitness), [02:37]
  • "Now we have no idea what is going to happen...we can only imagine the worst." – Mel Brecknell, Canadian doctor in Gaza, [04:13]
• US policy continues to influence aid decisions, while the ceasefire remains volatile.

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2. Spectacular Louvre Jewel Heist in Paris

[06:09 – 08:50]

• Masked thieves execute a daring robbery at the Louvre, stealing several priceless French crown jewels in a 7-minute operation using a cherry picker and scooters.
• 8 of 9 targeted artifacts are taken. The historic Regent diamond remains safe, while Empress Eugenie's crown was recovered at the scene.
• The heist exposes vulnerabilities in French museum security, blamed partly on staff cuts and a lack of investment.
• Quote:
  • "In the Louvre, of all places, don’t they have, like, the best security on the planet? I'm thinking an inside job, maybe." – American tourist, [07:58]
  • "We have alerted management for months and months to highlight the flaws and problems we were facing daily." – Elise Mueller, museum union representative, [08:07]
• French President Macron calls the theft “an attack on French heritage.”

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3. US-Canada Trade Tensions over Softwood Lumber

[10:11 – 12:48]

• The US imposes new tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber, threatening small sawmill businesses, particularly in BC.
• BC Premier David Eby criticizes Ottawa for prioritizing central Canadian industries over the lumber sector, fueling interprovincial resentment.
• Talks between Canadian and US officials, including PM Mark Carney and Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc, produce no immediate results.
• Quote:
  • "We are now selling products at the margin. We're not making any profit on it right now." – Andy Riley, sawmill owner, [10:47, 10:51]
  • "Softwood is bigger than [other sectors] and it just does not get that resonance." – Industry commentator, [11:16]
• Canadian experts warn that American policy currently offers little prospect for concessions.

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4. Alberta Teachers' Strike—Students in Limbo

[12:48 – 15:39]

• Ongoing strike heads into a third week; the main sticking point is class size, with mediation rejected due to its exclusion from talks.
• Alberta students, especially seniors, worry about university applications and missing out on diploma examinations, sports, and extracurriculars.
• Student Quotes:
  • "I am very concerned about how I’m going to do on the diploma and how that’s going to affect my application to university." – Paige Beck, [13:32]
  • "The longer the strike stretches out, the harder it’s going to be to get back, and the more we realize how much we need our teachers." – Paige Beck, [13:57]
  • "The strike is also affecting my learning...no sports teams, no clubs, no activities, no school trips." – Jane Kundert, [14:41, 14:48]
• Premier Danielle Smith threatens legislation to forcibly end the strike if no resolution emerges.

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5. Indigenous Diversion Program Launches in BC

[16:55 – 18:59]

• Indigenous peoples account for a disproportionately high number of BC’s incarcerated population.
• A new Prince George centre offers diversion for Indigenous people accused of minor crimes—replacing jail time with 90 days of cultural programming, counseling, and land-based healing.
• Quote:
  • "...to face a group of your elders and...take ownership over that [harm] is much harder than jail." – Corey Wilson, BC First Nations Justice Council, [17:51]
  • "It costs around $200,000 a year to keep an Indigenous person incarcerated." – Corey Wilson, [18:03]
• The RCMP will adapt how it handles nuisance and repeat offender calls, aiming to break cycles of recidivism.

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6. Positive Outlook on Aging & Recovery

[19:08 – 21:59]

• Canadian study finds many older adults recover from serious illness or injury as robustly as younger ones.
• Key factors for resilience: physical activity, non-smoking, social connections, and emotional health.
• Quotes:
  • "Aging is not just about doom and gloom or decline or deterioration." – Mabel Ho, study author, [20:39]
  • "You’re never too old to build resilience and health." – Dr. Sameer Sinha, geriatrician, [21:59]
• Families play a central role in supporting healthy aging, especially through ongoing engagement and connection.

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7. Blue Jays Face Playoff Elimination

[22:13 – 25:30]

• Toronto Blue Jays are one loss away from elimination in the ALCS against Seattle; optimism high as key players return from injury.
• Quote:
  • "Springer provides the Jays with a big boost...he's a tough dude." – Sports commentator, [23:55]
  • "Keep the ball rolling, keep that train rolling, keep all his fans excited. It's the best TV I have seen in a decade." – Rob Butler, former Jays player, [24:42]
• Rookie pitcher Trae You Savage aims to maintain composure in a high-stakes game; a win would force Game 7.

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8. The Quest for Sustainable Wool

[25:30 – 29:07]

• Small wool producers in Europe and Canada struggle against mass-produced, synthetic-dominated textiles.
• Designers and farmers in Italy, Ireland, and the Netherlands push for transparent, sustainable wool production, organizing "wool marches" and connecting consumers with origins.
• Quotes:
  • "Wool is a biodegradable resource that used to be the golden fleece, but has been kicked out." – Cynthia Hathaway, Canadian designer, [26:33]
  • "[This program] really explains to people where this sweater comes from, who created it, the artists involved. When you buy it, what you’re supporting." – Elettra Weidman, Farm to Fashion, [28:16]
• Moves toward labeling and traceability are intended to restore value and sustainability to fashion.

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9. Pumpkin Spice Latte’s Possible Origins

[29:07 – 30:42]

• Tori Amos, the singer, may have independently invented a pumpkin spice drink in the 90s, predating Starbucks' PSL.
• "You have all your Starbucks things. Well, I have one that tastes like pumpkin pie. It's my own invention... a little witch warmer." – Tori Amos (as quoted from a 1995 review), [29:54]
• The segment closes humorously, linking pop culture and beverage lore.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "We can only imagine the worst." — Mel Brecknell, Canadian doctor in Gaza ([04:13])
• "It's going to absolutely upend our last year of high school." — Alberta student on the impact of the teachers' strike ([14:52])
• "You’re never too old to build resilience and health." — Dr. Sameer Sinha, geriatrician ([21:59])
• "In the Louvre, of all places, don’t they have, like, the best security on the planet?" — American tourist reflecting broad astonishment at the museum heist ([07:58])
• "Wool is a biodegradable resource that used to be the golden fleece, but has been kicked out." — Cynthia Hathaway, designer ([26:33])

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Israel/Hamas Ceasefire: [01:05 – 04:46]
• Louvre Heist Story: [06:09 – 08:50]
• Softwood Lumber & Trade Tensions: [10:11 – 12:48]
• Alberta Teachers' Strike: [12:48 – 15:39]
• Indigenous Diversion in BC: [16:55 – 18:59]
• Positive Aging Study: [19:08 – 21:59]
• Toronto Blue Jays Playoff: [22:13 – 25:30]
• Wool Sustainability & Slow Fashion: [25:30 – 29:07]
• Pumpkin Spice Latte Origins: [29:07 – 30:42]

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This episode demonstrates CBC’s hallmark blend of thorough reporting and empathetic, human-driven storytelling. From war zones to local farms, and from boardrooms to baseball stadiums, "Your World Tonight" offers both vital context and voices from the front lines of today’s crucial stories.

Transcript

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[Tom Perry]

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[Stephanie Skanderas]

The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas on shaky ground as Israel launches new strikes in Gaza with both sides accusing each other of violating the agreement. This is your world tonight. I'm Stephanie Skanderas, also on the podcast. You know, you think in the Louvre, of all places, don't they have, like, the best security on the planet? So it's crazy. It's not Ocean's Eleven, but it is a story of a brazen heist involving a famous museum, priceless crown jewels and getaway scooters.

[Student (possibly Paige Beck or Jane Kundert)]

Plus, I am very concerned about how I'm going to do on the diploma and how that's going to affect my application to University Alberta.

[Stephanie Skanderas]

Students start getting worried about their future as the teachers strike goes on. The ceasefire in Gaza could hang in the balance tonight. Israel has launched a wave of strikes across the territory in retaliation, it says, for Hamas firing on Israeli soldiers. Hamas denies the violations, accusing Israel of breaking the truce. Hospital sources in Gaza say at least 40 people have been killed as aid to the territory was suspended. Tom Perry has more.

[Tom Perry]

Once again in Gaza, ambulances, injured patients and body bags. Israel unleashing a wave of airstrikes across the territory, killing more Palestinians, among them the brother of Sali Salman. We were sitting in a cafe drinking tea and coffee, he said, and suddenly we heard the news. They were hit and bombed and everyone was killed. Military strikes, just one part of Israel's action. The Israeli government announced as well it's suspending shipments of humanitarian aid into Gaza until further notice, though those shipments could reportedly resume by Monday because of U.S. pressure. Israel says it's retaliating for Hamas opening fire on Israeli soldiers. Shosh Bedrosian is an Israeli government spokesperson.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

Today The IDF announced terrorists fired an anti tank missile and gunfire towards our troops operating in the area of Rafah to dismantle terrorist infrastructure, all in accordance with the ceasefire agreement. Now in response, the IDF began striking in the area to eliminate the threat.

[Tom Perry]

Hamas has tried to distance itself from the Rafah incident and says it remains committed to the ceasefire. But the Israeli strikes are the latest blow to a deal that's barely a week old. Israel had already accused Hamas of violating the agreement by failing to turn over the remains of all Israel's deceased hostages. Hamas has accused Israel of breaching the deal by continuing to fire on Palestinians it says have approached Israeli positions with strikes on Rafah in the south, Deir Al Bala in central Gaza and elsewhere. Mel Brecknell, a Canadian doctor working in central Gaza working worries about what might come next.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

Now we have no idea what is going to happen. Since this morning we know that there's been attacks in Rafah in the south. And then when we heard about Dera Bella. Now we can all only imagine the worst.

[Tom Perry]

Israel's Defense minister has issued a warning to Hamas saying it will pay a heavy price for any breach of the deal. Israel now says it's resuming enforcement of the Gaza ceasefire. The signaling a possible end to strikes for now. Tom Perry, CBC News, Cairo.

[Stephanie Skanderas]

U.S. president Donald Trump says he's ending all aid to Colombia and called the country's president, quote, an illegal drug leader. Trump made the comment about President Gustavo Petro on Truth Social today. He says Colombia isn't doing enough to end drug production. For his part, Petro accused the US government of the of killing a fisherman in Colombian waters during a military strike last month. The US military has carried out multiple strikes against alleged drug vessels in the Caribbean since September. London's Metropolitan Police says it'll investigate allegations involving Prince Andrew and its officers. Media reports allege that in 2011 Andrew asked officers who protect him to dig up perhaps personal information about his main accuser, Virginia Giuffre. She was trafficked by sex offender Jeffrey Epstein alleged she was forced to have sex with Andrew when she was 17 and took her own life this year. Andrew denies the allegations. On Friday, he announced he was giving up his royal titles. It sounds like the plot of a Hollywood heist thriller. Professional thieves pulling a brazen daylight job at the Louvre and making off with pre priceless crown jewels. Authorities in France are now trying to piece together how it happened. Philip Le Chenock reports.

[On-site Witness/Interviewee (e.g., Monica Wu, Jim and Joan Carpenter)]

Tour guide Monica Wu had just started her day when museum staff told her to take her group and leave immediately. She posted a video of what she thought was a false alarm.

[Stephanie Skanderas]

Probably somebody smoke inside the Louvre. That happened before and we are asked to go outside.

[On-site Witness/Interviewee (e.g., Monica Wu, Jim and Joan Carpenter)]

American tourists Jim and Joan Carpenter were also caught up in the chaos. Lots of confusion, and then they ran us all out.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

They would say, go this way and that would be closed.

[On-site Witness/Interviewee (e.g., Monica Wu, Jim and Joan Carpenter)]

Authorities say masked bandits used a truck with a cherry picker and power tools to break into the Louvre. They grabbed jewelry, including a tiara, necklaces and earrings embedded with diamonds, emeralds and sapphires, and fled on scooters. The heist took only seven minutes. Paris prosecutor Laure Baclot says four suspects arrived just as a museum was opening. They were professional, organized and knew what they wanted. They used a truck with a cherry picker, positioned it under the balcony, which allowed direct access to the gallery. She says they targeted nine objects and got away with eight. The crown of Empress Eugenie, wife of Napoleon iii, was recovered. The crown of Empress Eugenie, which was one of the targets, was found at the foot of the balcony and. And the thieves lost it as they fled. But she said the famous 140 carat Regent diamond, which had been initially reported stolen, was safely in its case. Alexandre Giquello of a French auction house as the pieces they did get away with are priceless, but the crown jewels are unsellable and will likely be broken apart and the gold melted and sold. These pieces are too well known, too publicized. He says the museum was closed for the day. But some, like this American tourist, had questions.

[Stephanie Skanderas]

In the Louvre, of all places, don't they have, like, the best security on the planet? I'm thinking an inside job, maybe.

[On-site Witness/Interviewee (e.g., Monica Wu, Jim and Joan Carpenter)]

Authorities say five museum officers confronted the thieves, but as per security protocol, immediately called police. Elise Mueller is with the union that represents museum employees. She says staff cuts have impacted their ability to to keep the Louvre's 35,000 works of art safe. We have alerted management for months and months to highlight the flaws and problems we were facing daily. The Minister of the Interior had already sounded the alarm about the vulnerability of French museums due to a lack of investment. French President Emmanuel Macron has ordered security reviews, calling the robbery an attack on French heritage. Filti Shanock, CBC News, Toronto.

[Stephanie Skanderas]

Meanwhile, a painting by Pablo Picasso is at the center of a police investigation in Spain. Still Life with Guitar was supposed to be in a temporary exhibition in the city of Granada. Earlier this month, it was transferred there from Madrid along with other artworks. But when museum staff opened the crates three days after delivery, the painting was missing. The missing piece is small, measuring about 13 x 10 cm, but is insured from a whopping $980,000. Still ahead, when you're buying clothes, are you looking out for natural fibers? Lots of people do, choosing things like wool as a sign of quality over synthetic. But the calculation changes when price gets factored in. And now many old school wool producers are struggling. You'll head to a sheep farm near Rome to hear more. Coming up on YOUR WORLD Tonight, the US Trade war is creating tensions inside Team Canada. David Eby, BC's premier, calls US tariffs on softwood lumber an existential threat and says while workers in his province are sitting on a knife's edge, Ottawa is focused only on Ontario and Quebec.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

JP Tasker reports most small medium sized companies in Canada are not in a situation where we can, you know, ingest 45%.

[Reporter (e.g., Megan Williams)]

In B.C. the softwood lumber sector is grappling with huge new U.S. tariffs, punishing levies that could put sawmills out of business.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

Our workforce has gone from 30 to 18 and it might be going, going down from there.

[Reporter (e.g., Megan Williams)]

At our mill, Andy Riley's West Vancouver company produces Red Sea and much of it is shipped to the US last week his small firm paid some $48,000 to eat the cost of American duties.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

I will be honest with you that.

[Sports Commentator/Reporter]

We are now selling products at the margin.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

We're not making any profit on it right now.

[Reporter (e.g., Megan Williams)]

Canada US Talks on tariff relief are focused on the steel and aluminum sectors, big industries in central Canada.

[Sports Commentator/Reporter]

There should be high anxiety and energy.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

This is a major sector.

[Reporter (e.g., Megan Williams)]

B.C. premier David Eby says the lumber sector is getting short shrift from negotiators and it's fueling some regional resentment.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

If you look at the auto parts.

[Sports Commentator/Reporter]

Sector, if you look at the primary.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

Steel sector, put them together.

[Sports Commentator/Reporter]

Softwood is bigger than both and it just does not get that resonance.

[Reporter (e.g., Megan Williams)]

Still, those bilateral negotiations have so far produced no results for any sector. After a week of talks with his American counterparts in Washington, Canada, US Trade Minister Dominic De Blanc is back on home soil and there's still no deal in hand.

[Sports Commentator/Reporter]

We have to focus on what we can control.

[Reporter (e.g., Megan Williams)]

At a Diwali celebration in the Toronto area this weekend, Prime Minister Mark Carney showed some frustration with the US Administration.

[Sports Commentator/Reporter]

I can't control Donald Trump, I gotta tell you. Actually, I can't let him think I'm controlling him.

[Reporter (e.g., Megan Williams)]

Is maybe a better way to do it.

[Sports Commentator/Reporter]

You never know. You never know what's going to come next.

[Reporter (e.g., Megan Williams)]

Fen Hampson is an expert on Canada U.S. relations and a professor of international affairs at Carleton University. He says hope for a good deal is fading.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

The direction of US Policy is unmistakable. If America believes it can make, grow or mine goods domestically, it's not going.

[Reporter (e.g., Megan Williams)]

To offer concessions, a senior government official tells CBC News. Minister LeBlanc could be headed back to Washington this week for more talks as the two sides try to hammer out a deal, but it hasn't been confirmed yet. In the meantime, the trade war drags on, wreaking havoc on Canadian industry. J.P. tasker, CBC News, Ottawa.

[Stephanie Skanderas]

Alberta's province wide teachers strike heads into its third week tomorrow with no resolution in sight. The teachers union says it declined the government's request to head back to the classroom Voluntari Monday and start a proposed mediation process. The reason for the no because overcrowded classrooms were not going to be part of the discussion. This all leaves high school students in particular in limbo as they think about future plans. Sam Sampson has more on that.

[Reporter (e.g., Sam Sampson)]

Paige Beck likes to stay a step ahead during Alberta's teacher strike. The Edmonton student who's in grade 11, is keeping up with her cross country running schedule even though provincials are postponed and she's taking a grade 12 level by biology course.

[Student (possibly Paige Beck or Jane Kundert)]

We're on molecular genetics right now and they're, they're very tricky concepts and they're very easy to mix up. I am very concerned about how I'm going to do on the diploma and how that's going to affect my application to university.

[Reporter (e.g., Sam Sampson)]

Diploma exams, otherwise known as provincial exams, are worth a big chunk of a student's grade. November's exams are now optional due to the strike, but that does not help students like Beck, who will take them in January.

[Student (possibly Paige Beck or Jane Kundert)]

The longer the strike stretches out, the harder it's going to be to get back and the more we realize how much we need our teachers.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

Hey, hey, mo ho. This disrespect has got to go.

[Reporter (e.g., Sam Sampson)]

Alberta teachers have been off the job since October 6th. Their union and the province can't agree on issues like classroom sizes and salaries. Premier Danielle Smith says if nothing changes soon, her government will order teachers back to work.

[On-site Witness/Interviewee (e.g., Monica Wu, Jim and Joan Carpenter)]

If we do not get back to.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

The table to the table next week with the students returning to classroom, you should fully expect that there'll be legislation in the week of October 27th.

[Reporter (e.g., Sam Sampson)]

That's good and bad news for grade 12 students like Jane Kundert, who was hoping for good grades and good times this last year of school.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

On one hand, I'm really glad that.

[Stephanie Skanderas]

The teachers are doing something because the class sizes are also affecting my learning, but the strike is also affecting my learning.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

Work to rule like no sports teams, no clubs, no activities, no school trips.

[Darina]

It's going to absolutely upend our last.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

Year of high school.

[On-site Witness/Interviewee (e.g., Monica Wu, Jim and Joan Carpenter)]

There he goes.

[Reporter (e.g., Sam Sampson)]

No teachers or work to rule means no regular season for student athletes. Even though the Edmonton Elks opened up their field to help football players practice, the window to secure scholarships is getting smaller.

[Sports Commentator/Reporter]

Maybe going CFL, NFL, you know, of.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

Course, that's the big dream.

[Reporter (e.g., Sam Sampson)]

Grade 11 running back Joe Klespitz says he has missed out on loads of game tape footage of him playing that he'd send to university scouts.

[Sports Commentator/Reporter]

Yeah, I'm fairly worried about it, but.

[On-site Witness/Interviewee (e.g., Monica Wu, Jim and Joan Carpenter)]

I'm sure it'll all work out in the end.

[Sports Commentator/Reporter]

But it does suck, of course, to lose film and lose those opportunities that could be presented to you in the future.

[Reporter (e.g., Sam Sampson)]

A future like so many others that hangs in the balance of what happens next in this province. Wide teacher strike Sam Sampson, CBC News, Edmonton.

[Stephanie Skanderas]

A Calgary petting zoo has been forced to close after nine cases of avian flu were reported. All of the cases were in poultry. According to Alberta Health Services. People who visited Butterfield Acres petting farm between October 6th and 12th are asked to monitor for flu like symptoms like fever, cough, fatigue or pink eye. Health officials say the risk to the public is low. 36% of all prisoners in British Columbia identify as Indigenous. That's a high proportion given that Indigenous people represent only 6% of the overall population in the province. Many of them have committed nonviolent or minor crimes. Now a new program in downtown Prince George will offer some of them an alternative to being criminally charged. Hannah Peterson has the details. There's gross over representation of Indigenous people in the justice system.

[Corey Wilson]

Corey Wilson is the chair of the B.C. first Nations Justice Council. She was in Prince George for the grand opening of a new diversion centre that provides an alternative to incarceration for Indigenous people charged with minor crimes like shoplifting, fraud or mischief. The centre will offer Indigenous offenders the option to complete a 90 day cultural program as well as help with addictions and mental health to have their charges dropped. Participants can join in ceremonies land based healing, elder teachings, clinical counseling and life skills training. Wilson notes the Prince George Regional Correctional center is currently over capacity with 63% of inmates identifying as Indigenous.

[Stephanie Skanderas]

Indigenous people are at the negative end of every social economic indicator, so we need to do something different.

[Corey Wilson]

She says. The program will prevent crime by addressing the root causes of why people break the law.

[Stephanie Skanderas]

People often think that it's a get out of jail free card, but in fact it's much harder to face a group of your elders and to face your victim and to face the people that you've wronged and harmed and to take ownership over that.

[Corey Wilson]

Wilson says preventing incarceration can also help save taxpayer dollars. She says it costs around $200,000 a year to keep an Indigenous person incarcerated.

[Stephanie Skanderas]

And they're able to lead productive, contributing lives and change their path.

[Corey Wilson]

Calteley tonight. Elder Marcel Gagnon is the center's elder in residence. He says the program aims to give people a sense of belonging, worthiness and connection.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

I think it's going to be very.

[On-site Witness/Interviewee (e.g., Monica Wu, Jim and Joan Carpenter)]

Successful and especially reconnecting with ceremony and.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

Being on the land.

[Corey Wilson]

Rcmp Station superintendent Darren Rappel says like many cities, Prince George is struggling with repeat offenders. He says the program will change the way the RCMP deal with certain nuisance calls and is hopeful it will break the cycle of repeat offending within the community.

[On-site Witness/Interviewee (e.g., Monica Wu, Jim and Joan Carpenter)]

The more options that we have on.

[Stephanie Skanderas]

The table, the better. The better for the individual, the better for the community.

[Corey Wilson]

The Indigenous Diversion center will begin training with the Prince George RCMP this week. Hannah Peterson, CBC News, Prince George.

[Stephanie Skanderas]

When it comes to recovering from injury or illness, the older you are, the longer it can take. But a recent Canadian study suggests older people can recover from health challenges just as well as their younger counterparts. And many of the things that seem to make a difference are more simple than you think. Jennifer Yoon reports.

[Student (possibly Paige Beck or Jane Kundert)]

Ken Martin smears chalk all over his hands, readying himself for a deadlift.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

He planted the whole time, right?

[On-site Witness/Interviewee (e.g., Monica Wu, Jim and Joan Carpenter)]

Yes.

[Student (possibly Paige Beck or Jane Kundert)]

At 79 years old, he deadlifts £230. Ben shows about 120. Looking at him now, you would never guess he almost died last year.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

I blacked out probably 25 different times.

[Student (possibly Paige Beck or Jane Kundert)]

Hooked up to a monitor in hospital. A nurse told him how close he'd been to death every time he blacked.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

Out and said, Ken, your heart stopped for 10 seconds.

[Tom Perry]

Told me the previous 25 or 30.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

Times that's what had happened every time.

[Student (possibly Paige Beck or Jane Kundert)]

Doctors immediately implanted a pacemaker. Now, after months of working out and making friends at the gym, Martin says he feels like a whole new man.

[Tom Perry]

I feel like I'm in better or as good a health as I've ever been.

[Student (possibly Paige Beck or Jane Kundert)]

It's not as rare a story as you might think. A recent Canadian study followed thousands of adults over 60 going through a period of bad health, mentally or physically. Three years later, a quarter of them recovered so much they said they were in optimal health. Mabel Ho is one of the authors of the study published in the peer reviewed journal PLOS one.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

So we do hope that people will see that aging is not just about doom and gloom or decline or deterioration.

[Stephanie Skanderas]

But there are many things we can do to age well.

[Student (possibly Paige Beck or Jane Kundert)]

Those who bounced back tended to share some characteristics, say the researchers. They stayed physically active, they didn't smoke, they weren't obese, they slept well, and.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

They weren't lonely to have someone to.

[Stephanie Skanderas]

Talk to, someone to love you, someone.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

To confide with you. So that social connection is also very important, ho says.

[Student (possibly Paige Beck or Jane Kundert)]

Those who were psychologically and emotionally well were almost five times more likely to bounce back after struggling with their health.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

People say, well, I'm older, so I.

[Stephanie Skanderas]

Don'T know if I can actually recover what I've lost.

[Student (possibly Paige Beck or Jane Kundert)]

For geriatrician Dr. Sameer Sinha, this study is further proof countering the pessimism he sometimes hears from his patients.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

But it's amazing when you can really help turn people's attitudes around and remind them that there are many things they can do. You can give people hope.

[Student (possibly Paige Beck or Jane Kundert)]

And as families gather for Thanksgiving, younger generations also have a role to play in supporting healthy aging, Sinha says.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

How can the family and friend network rally around to help maintain a good.

[Stephanie Skanderas]

Level of social connection?

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

How can we help them get connected to supports and services that might help them regain their physical functioning as well?

[Student (possibly Paige Beck or Jane Kundert)]

Because Senesa has It's never too late to look out for a loved one, and you're never too old to build resilience and health. Jennifer Yoon, CBC News, Toronto.

[Stephanie Skanderas]

You're listening to your WORLD Tonight from CBC News. And if you want to make sure you never miss one of our episodes, follow us on Spotify, Apple, wherever you get your podcasts, just find the follow button and lock us in. The Toronto Blue Jays have their backs against the wall for the first time in the playoffs. Canada's only Major League Baseball team is facing elimination. If they lose to the Seattle Mariners Tonight in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series, Toronto's fairy tale postseason run will be over. But if they win, the Jays will be within reach of the World Series. Thomas Daigler reports. Let's go, Blue Jays.

[Sports Commentator/Reporter]

With their team facing elimination from the playoffs, Blue Jays fans are holding their breath, many remaining optimistic as the squad returns to their downtown stadium where this season they had the best home record in the league.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

It's going to be hyped and they'll bring the energy and I think it's going to be amazing. Fans here in Toronto are amazing. They're going to rally for the team and the team's going to rally for the fans.

[Sports Commentator/Reporter]

Toronto received welcome news earlier in the day when the club confirmed George Springer would be in tonight's lineup, the veteran slugger took a 96 mile an hour fastball to the kneecap Friday night in Seattle.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

Oh, it hit him right in the knee.

[Sports Commentator/Reporter]

Forced to to leave the game after dropping to the ground in pain. But Jays manager John Schneider says tests showed no damage to the 36 year old Springer's knee.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

Georgie's played through a lot, probably more.

[Sports Commentator/Reporter]

Than you guys know this year, but over the course of his career too.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

So he's a tough dude.

[Sports Commentator/Reporter]

Springer provides the Jays with a big boost at the plate. The 2017 World Series MVP with the Houston Astros this year, he enjoyed a resurgent season.

[Tom Perry]

High and deep to left and it's gone.

[Sports Commentator/Reporter]

Posting the best batting average of his entire career, hitting 32 home runs in the regular season and another three in the playoffs before tonight's game.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

They need guys like that, right? Those guys are calm and they know.

[Sports Commentator/Reporter]

How to handle the chaos and all.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

The stress that comes with the game.

[Sports Commentator/Reporter]

Ontario born outfielder Rob Butler was on the roster when the Jays last won the World Series in 1993. He's confident this squad can also advance to baseball's biggest stage.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

All those guys that have been our leaders all year need to step up and do it again and, you know, keep the ball rolling, keep that train rolling, keep all his fans, you know, excited. It's the best, it's the best TV I have seen in a decade.

[Sports Commentator/Reporter]

Tonight, the Jays are sending rookie pitching sensation Trae you Savage to the mound. At just 22 years old, he says he's trying not to focus on the weight of history.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

Everything has led us to this point.

[Sports Commentator/Reporter]

And we're able to show the world.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

Who we are so special.

[Sports Commentator/Reporter]

With a win tonight, the Mariners would punch their ticket to the World Series for the first time in franchise history, putting an end to the Jays post season run. But if Toronto can pull out a victory, they'll force a Game seven at home tomorrow night, leaving fans holding their breath again. Thomas Dagg, CBC News, Toronto.

[Stephanie Skanderas]

Wool is one of the world's oldest textiles. It's naturally occurring, biodegradable and keeps you warm in those cold winter months. But these days, most wool is mass produced, leaving small scale farmers and mills struggling to survive. As Megan Williams reports from Rome, a new movement led by designers, producers, activists and farmers is trying to bring wool back sustainably.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

On a blustery fall day outside Rome, sheep graze in the pastures of Ilaria Venturini Fendi's farm. Once a fashion designer at her family's Luxury label. Fendi left that world behind to focus on circular design and sustainable wool. Today, her farm is a meeting place for the World Hope Forum, with farmers, activists and designers determined to prove that wool produced locally can once again have worth. Among them is Canadian designer Cynthia Hathaway. Wool is a biodegradable resource that used.

[Stephanie Skanderas]

To be the golden fleece, but has been kicked out.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

I guess you could say Hathaway started thinking about wool when doing a design stint on a farm and there were sheep in the landscape. And so I followed the wool trail and found out that wool is part of a global system now, one that obscures the fact that most wool is now industrially produced and environmentally damaging. Today, wool makes up less than 1% of the world's textile fibers, with cheaper petroleum based synthetics now dominating the global market. Hathaway organizes regular wool marches in her adopted country of the Netherlands, leading flocks of sheep through city streets. Soft mobs, she calls them, to highlight how devalued locally produced wool is in much of the world. In Europe, cost to produce it is so high, many sheep farmers simply burn it. The wool march also points to how far fashion has drifted from the land. Take Irish wool, for example, most of which actually comes from China and is passed off as local. Blonid Gallagher, founder of Ireland's Galway Wool Co Op, is trying to change that. She'll soon join an EU focused group looking at how to rebuild the continent's wool economy. We want to ensure that the policy also includes consumers, given the opportunity to know where that fibre grew. Italian actor and now farmer Isabella Rossellini is also working to reconnect people to the fiber's origins. We started with a vegetable and then it became chickens and now the heritage breed of sheep for wool. At her mama farm in New York, she and her daughter Elettra Weidman run a program called Farm to Fashion, pairing young designers with heritage wool.

[Stephanie Skanderas]

That really explains to people where this sweater comes from, who created it, the artists is involved. When you buy it, what you're supporting.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

Weidman says people are more invested in what they buy when they know it's supporting local economies and biodiversity. It's a very ancient fiber. Dutch future forecaster Lee Edelcourt, the organizer of the World Hope Forum, says wool has become a way to tell new stories about how fashion can be made. Here you see the local communities making outsider art, you know, insanely beautiful. It's so rich. As sheep graze in the distance, these artists and farmers are trying to reshape how we value the materials and the lives of those behind what we wear. Megan Williams, CBC News, Rome.

[Stephanie Skanderas]

We'Re well and truly into fall now, and if you're a fan of autumnal flavors, then you've probably already picked up one of the most ubiquitous ones, a pumpkin spice latte, AKA psl. And if you have, well, you may want to raise your coffee cup to the woman who may have invented it. Maury Amos. Yes, there's a theory going around that the singer is responsible for something more orange than her famous ginger hair. It starts with a thread from someone called Doug Mac on the social media app Blue Sky. Max served a flavor history and dug up a review of a Tori Amos show in Seattle, famously the home of Starbucks from September 1995. Amos is quoted as saying, you have all your Starbucks things. Well, I have one that tastes like pumpkin pie. It's my own invention. It's my contribution to Halloween. A little witch warmer. Amos wouldn't be the only celeb to have a claim to a specialty Starbucks drink. Back in 2015, Kenny G told Bloomberg he made an early suggestion to the CEO that took off I'm a sweet.

[Sports Commentator/Reporter]

Guy, so I go for the Frappuccino.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

I think that part of the reason that they did Frappuccino was people like me giving them that kind of feedback.

[Stephanie Skanderas]

While Starbucks started doing frappuccinos in the 90s, it wouldn't embrace pumpkin spice everything until 2003, giving them plenty of time to heed Tori's idea. Guess it really struck a gourd. Here's more of Tori Amos and Corn Flake Girl on YOUR World Tonight. I'm Stephanie Skenderas. Thank you for listening.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

Tears are gone Gone to the other.

[Sports Commentator/Reporter]

Side with my hands like a baby.

[Reporter/Correspondent (various, including Shosh Bedrosian, Mabel Ho, and others)]

There must have been a nice bride.

[Stephanie Skanderas]

She'S known as to make love.

[On-site Witness/Interviewee (e.g., Monica Wu, Jim and Joan Carpenter)]

This.

[Student (possibly Paige Beck or Jane Kundert)]

Is not really this is not really happening.

[Stephanie Skanderas]

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