The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/03 at 01:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/03 at 01:00 EDT

Book club on Monday. Gym on Tuesday. Ugh! Date night on Wednesday. Out on the town on Thursday! Woo! Quiet night in on Friday. It's good to have a routine. And it's good for your eyes too.

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Postal delivery is expected to continue for the time being. At the heart of the dispute is the long-term future of this country's mail service. Sarah Law reports. Small businesses are one of the last reliable and profitable customers for the corporation and they're leaving in droves. Dan Kelly is president and CEO of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. The organization says the union's vote is bad news for everyone, and if there's another postal strike, two out of three businesses may stop using the Crown Corporation forever.

Marvin Ryder predicts Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers will seek binding arbitration through a neutral third party. Jim Gallant, a negotiator with the union, says arbitration is not the desired outcome. He says all parties agree that the best deals are reached at the table. Give this to a third party, after all these other things that have happened, is just going to be another big mess. Canada Post reported $841 million in losses before taxes last year. It says letter mail has declined by 60 percent over the last two decades.

Sarah Law, CBC News, Thunder Bay, Ontario. Nova Scotia health officials say that one child has been sent to hospital due to measles. The child is currently in stable condition. The province is now reporting 44 cases in the northern zone. Across Canada, there are more than 4,000 cases. In Calgary, a woman has lost more than $300,000 in what is being described as an increasingly common form of fraud. Terri Tenbreath reports. Shawna Nelson has been living at the Unison at Kirby Center's abuse shelter for six months.

The 63-year-old says she's a victim of a romance scam and lost her life savings. $380,000. It started five years ago. Nelson says he told her his name was Gilbert, and they developed a romantic connection, never meeting. He said he worked for the U.S. government and that they're not allowed to show their face.

By 2023, Nelson sold her house and moved into a motel and that they're not allowed to show their face. By 2023, Nelson sold her house and moved into a motel with the intention of joining Gilbert in the States. I wanted to find true love, and that's what I thought I found. As alarming as her story is, Larry Matheson, the head of the Kirby Centre, says it's not unusual. Financial abuse is a common, a very high incidence of our cases have that. Nelson reported it to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre. The centre says seniors

lost $23 million to romance scams last year. Terry Trombath, CBC News, Calgary. At the World Aquatic Championships in Singapore, Canadian swimming phenom Summer McIntosh has won the top spot overall in the women's 400 individual medley qualifying heats. The 18-year-old has already won three gold medals from the 400-metre freestyle, 200 individual medley and 200-metre butterfly. She now moves on to the finals, which takes place on Sunday morning. In Montreal, a teenager from Toronto has scored a stunning upset at the Canadian Open Tennis

Tournament. Ed Kleiman has the story. 18-year-old Victoria Mboko dominated World No. 2 and French Open champion Coco Goff on Saturday, securing a 6-1, 6-4 win that took just 63 minutes. Three months ago, the Toronto native lost to Goff at the Italian Open in a close three-set match. This time, with a sold-out crowd in Montreal cheering her on, she knew exactly what was needed for a different result.

I just wanted to stay solid and I wanted to be right there with her and take as many opportunities as I could and yeah at the end of the day it really went in my favor. Mboko will now play a quarterfinal match on Monday where she will be heavily favored to win again. If she does, she will break into the top 50 on the women's tour and be just two wins away from becoming the first Canadian to win her national championship since Bianca Andrescu in 2019. Ed Kleiman for CBC News, Toronto. And that is your World is Sour. For CBC News, I'm Neal Kumar.