The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/04 at 00:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/04 at 00:00 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 this hour, I'm Neil Herland. The minister responsible for Canada-U.S. trade, Dominic LeBlanc, says he expects Prime Minister

Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump will speak in the next few days. LeBlanc appeared Sunday on a CBS News program, saying he thinks the two countries can reach a deal to strike down newly imposed tariffs. We think the economies of both countries are strengthened when we do things together. The trading relationship between Canada and the United States is unlike other partners. One description which I thought was very apt, we don't sell things to each other as much as we build things together.

And that's why it's difficult in this relationship when so much is integrated, but we remain very optimistic. The 35% levy took effect Friday is only on Canadian goods not covered by the KUSMA trade agreement, but tariffs do apply to significant industries including steel, aluminum, automotive, and softwood lumber. The union representing 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants is holding a strike vote that will close on Tuesday. The two sides have been in contract talks since the start of the year. The Canadian Union of Public Employees says its top priority is

boosting compensation for flight attendants. Officials on Vancouver Island are hoping for a change of weather that could help them fight an out-of-control wildfire. The fire northwest of Nanaimo forced evacuations for hundreds of properties. The BC Wildfire Service says it's focused on keeping people safe and protecting homes and critical infrastructure. Mira Baines reports. Cloudy skies and cooler temperatures near the Wesley Ridge fire burning on the north shore of Cameron

Lake seem like signs of hope but strong winds remain a big worry. We are in a period of drought here on the island. Madison Dahl is a fire information officer with the Coastal Fire Center and says no rain is expected until midweek but winds are difficult to predict. Winds will strengthen through the day with peak gusting expected in the early evening hours. Dozens of firefighters and structural protection specialists, as well as seven helicopters, are helping put out the fire. Nearly 400 properties, mostly homes, are under evacuation order

with residents required to leave immediately. The fire has grown to an estimated size of almost four square kilometres, but smoke is making it hard for officials to get a clear handle on how big it is. The fire is suspected to have been caused by human activity. Neera Beans, CBC News, Vancouver. In the Middle East, new video showing another Israeli hostage has been released. The images are distressing, but his family chose to share them to highlight what the hostage is going through.

As Philipp Lee Shanach reports, the video comes amid more devastation in Gaza. Following international outrage over widespread starvation and deaths from malnutrition, Israel said it would pause military activity in some areas to allow more aid into Gaza. But humanitarian organizations say the amount of aid that's entered the enclave is not enough. And Hamas says restricting aid to Gaza is harming the remaining hostages. On Friday, Hamas released a propaganda video showing hostage Avietar David. He appears in a tunnel looking emaciated saying he eats what his captors eat. His brother Ely

David joined other families in condemning the hostage videos saying it's part of a propaganda campaign by Hamas. Hamas men are eating. They have plenty of food, they have plenty of water and they are starving their own people and the hostages. Philip Lee Shanoch, CBC News, Toronto. The former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Hillary Weston, is dead. In a statement, her son, businessman Galen Weston Jr., says his mother was devoted to her family and believed in the importance of community. Weston was a philanthropist. She also worked in the fashion industry. Hillary Weston was 83 years old. And Lani Anderson, who played a struggling radio station receptionist

on the hit TV comedy WKRP in Cincinnati, died Sunday, just days before her 80th birthday. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neal Herland.