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

Episode Date: August 3, 2025

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

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It also takes the strength and determination of the communities around us, whether it's through disease awareness, fighting stigmas and loneliness, education, or empowering people to become more active. Novo Nordisk is supporting local changemakers because it takes more than medicine to live a healthy life. Leave your armor at the door. Watch this paid content on CBC Gem. From CBC News, the world is sour. I'm Neil Kumar. Unionized workers at Canada Post have voted against the Crown Corporation's latest contract offer.

As Philipp Lee Shanuck reports, this comes after more than a year and a half of talks. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers says the overwhelming vote to reject the latest offer sends a clear message. This was a vote of non-confidence of the executive board of Canada Post. They're not in touch with the workers. This analyst says a likely scenario is that the two sides will seek binding arbitration to break this impact. This is a necessary step, but it is not a sufficient step. The union says the best way to ensure labour peace and stability for customers

is a negotiated contract ratified by its members. Canada Post says business as usual is not sustainable and it's evaluating its next steps. Fulton Lee Shanok, CBC News, Toronto. Health Canada has issued a recall notice for bee-shick and chikur model baby nest beds due to a number of safety risks that include fall, strangulation, and entrapment hazards. The department says the 11 brand baby co-sleeping bed and luggage middle beds do not meet the regulations. Consumers are advised to stop using the recalled products immediately.

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. New light is being shed on the toxic drug crisis in BC after the province's coroner released data showing the occupations of those who died over a three-year span. One of the industries seeing the large numbers of drug fatalities is the trades. Michelle Morton has more.

There can be broader awareness of the sort of occupational inequities that we see in overdose fatalities. Lindsay Richardson is the Canada Research Chair in Social Inclusion and Health Equity. She says there could be several occupational drivers of substance use. New data from the BC Coroner Service shows those employed in trades, transport, and equipment operation account for 21% of deaths on average between 2022 and last year.

It's often really physically demanding work with high rates of work related pain and injury. With the construction foundation of BC, Trevor Botkin says he experienced some of those challenges first hand. What was simply blowing off steam became this place I was drowning and I didn't know how to ask for help. Botkin now provides supports for those working in the industry. They are dying for somebody to hear them and see them and to understand what they're going through.

Michelle Morton, CBC News, Vancouver. At the World Aquatic Championships in Singapore, Canadian swimming phenom Summer Macintosh 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 to an individual medley in 200 metre butterfly. She now moves on to the finals which takes place later this 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. 2 and French Open champion Coco Gough on Saturday, securing a 6-1, 6-4 win that took just 63 minutes.

Three months ago, the Toronto native lost to Gough 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 Worldest Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Kumar. Thanks for watching.