The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/28 at 02:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/28 at 02:00 EDT

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I'm Neil Hurland. Multiple vigils were held in Minneapolis tonight to honor the victims of Wednesday's deadly school shooting. Two children ages 8 and 10 were killed at a Catholic school. Another 17 were wounded. Don't let anybody tell you that it's not about guns, because it is. Mayor Jacob Fry is calling for stricter gun control laws in the U.S. It's a sentiment chaired by other Democratic politicians, including Peggy Flanagan, the lieutenant governor of Minnesota.

God weeps. Jesus weeps in this moment because we have free will and we have been given all of the tools necessary to stop this violence against our children. Investigators say the shooter was 23-year-old Robin Westman. Westman died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. In Hong Kong, closing submissions have wrapped up in the high-profile trial of media tycoon Jimmy Lye. The 77-year-old founded the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily. Authorities closed the paper and arrested lie under Hong Kong's sweeping national security law. He pleaded not guilty to two counts of constituents.

conspiracy and one count of conspiracy to publish seditious material. He faces a maximum life sentence. Quebec is looking to reinforce its main secularism law, known as Bill 21. An independent report released 50 recommendations. One of them included broadening the current ban on religious symbols and workplaces to include subsidized daycare workers. Kathy Senei has more.

This is a way to respect deliberately. of religion. Committee co-chair Christian Pelchase, the report suggests extending Bill 21 to subsidized daycare workers. Like public school teachers, they would be prohibited from wearing religious symbols at work. The symbols installed a religious environment. Pelscha says the committee is recommending an exemption for those already employed in daycares. Students in Siegeps, past secondary schools publicly funded in Quebec, should also have their faces uncovered in the classroom, the report says. In the past, groups have denounced the move saying such legislation alienates Muslim women in particular. The report comes as the Logo government is getting ready

for a legal challenge of Bill 21 at the Supreme Court of Canada. Quebec will present its future secularism rules later this fall. Katsisunay, CBC News, Quebec City. was the worst wildfire season recorded in Canada. Now, a new report says it has led to some of the highest particulate pollution levels since 1997, and that general air pollution has worsened over the last decade as a result of the fires. As Nicole Mordillaro reports, experts fear it's part of a growing trend. It's hard not to remember the 2023 wildfire season when more than 16 million hectares of forest were lost, and thousands were displaced from their homes.

Today's report found that during the 2023 wildfire season, more than half of Canadians breathed air that surpassed our national standard. And if those levels continued for a person's lifetime, the average Canadian would lose roughly two years of their life expectancy. The worsening air quality is a frustrating reversal of progress made by Canada to reduce air pollution. Michael Greenstone is one of the report's authors. Their pollution is like the zombie that we thought we had killed, but it's coming back to life.

But with climate change worsening droughts, the risk of wildfires increases. This year has been the second worst wildfire season on record, and experts warn that the risk to Canadians from exposure to smoke will likely increase each year. Nicole Mortillero, CBC News, Toronto. In Labor News, Unifor has reelected Atlanta Payne as its national president at a convention in Vancouver on Wednesday. And that's the CBC News. I'm Neil Hurland.