The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/27 at 02:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/27 at 02:00 EDT

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U.S. President Donald Trump will chair a meeting Wednesday at the White House on the war in Gaza. U.S. special envoy Steve Whitkoff tells Fox News that the U.S. has a plan to rebuild Gaza after the war ends. It's a very comprehensive plan we're putting together on the next day that I think many people are going to be they're going to see how robust it is and how well-meaning it is. But so far, Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas have not been able to reach a new ceasefire deal. Hamas says it will accept the latest proposal, which would release some of the remaining Israeli hostages being held in Gaza.

But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now says he will only accept a deal that releases all the hostages. Prime Minister Mark Carney is wrapping up his European trip Wednesday. He'll meet with Canadian Armed Forces personnel in Riga, Latvia, before returning to Ottawa. Now to Manitoba. Come on, we can make some more noise for Calvian. Let's go. Let's rock this place. That's Manitoba Progressive Conservative Party leader Abi Khan,

celebrating a provincial by-election win tonight in the riding of Spruce Woods west of Winnipeg, Colleen Robbins will be the newest member of the Manitoba Legislature. Tonight, I stand before you filled with gratitude and humility. This victory is not mine alone. It belongs to all of us. Robbins beat the NDP candidate by 70 votes in a tight race that saw Premier Wob Canoe make big promises to local voters, but in the end, the riding stayed conservative. A Cree community in Saskatchewan is pushing to become.

the newest First Nation in Canada. The Peter Chapman Band was forced by the federal government to merge into a larger nation more than a century ago. As Alexander Silberman reports, there are a renewed hope now for official recognition after a decades-long fight. This was just the canola field a year half ago. In the heart of central Saskatchewan,

Adam Whitehead is giving a tour of his busy community of Peter Chapman First Nation, with dozens of buildings, quickly reaffed, rising next to fields of wheat. So is the government that we are serious. Whitehead, a band counselor, says the construction boom is part of a renewed push to become an independent First Nation band. The federal government forced it to merge with two others in the early 1900s and still

considers Peter Chapman part of James Smith Cree Nation. Historically, we were supposed to be a First Nation on our own. Chief Robert Head says regaining recognition will allow for funding a great. with Ottawa on health care, housing, and education. The federal government says it's currently engaged in a process with the three communities to consider the split. Alexander Silberman, CBC News, Peter Chapman, First Nation. Tens of thousands of people have now signed a petition to save the Quebecois version of the Simpsons. For decades, it's been dubbed for a French-Canadian audience,

and while it's wildly popular with fans, it seems to be coming to an abrupt end. Leavitt reports. It's the same faces and adventures with a twist. Quebec's version of the Simpsons uses local references. Like there, about a Montreal area shopping center. But that dubbing may not be coming back. The work used to be done by chorus entertainment, but it didn't renew its broadcasting rights. Instead, it'll be up to Disney Plus, and it appears that's not happening.

Disney didn't reply to requests for comment. Joshua Piesotto has launched a petition to save Les Simpsons, saying it's about preserving Quebec culture, a sentiment that Terry Dubet agrees with. It's an American show, which is really, really Quebec. For the past eight years, Dubet has played the Quebec version of Homer. The hope is Disney listens to the outcry, or else for the first time in 36 years,

Les Simpsin won't be available in Francais. Quebec. Sarah Levitt's CBC News, Montreal. And that's the CBC News.