The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/28 at 04:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/28 at 04:00 EDT

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Certain conditions apply. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. Multiple vigils were held in Minneapolis last night to honor the victims of Wednesday's deadly school shooting. Two children, aged 8 and 10, were killed at a Catholic school. Another 17 people 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 shared 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. Right. Investigators say the shooter was 23-year-old Robin Westman. Westman died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The White House says it has fired the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control

after less than one month on the job. The Trump administration says she wasn't aligned with the president's agenda. Steve Futterman reports. The sudden move to dismiss Susan Menreras comes after a clash over vaccine policy with controversial health and human services secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Kennedy has been seen by many as a vaccine denier. The White House says Maneris isn't aligned with the Trump agenda. Her lawyers counter saying she is being targeted for standing up to science.

What you sought at the CDC was a wholesale destruction of the leadership of the organization. Dr. Ashish Jha was the COVID-19 response coordinator during the Biden administration, Along with the attempt to remove Maneras, four other high-ranking CDC officials resigned late Wednesday, one of them accusing the Trump administration of weaponizing public health. All this comes as the Kennedy-influenced Food and Drug Administration announced on Wednesday restrictive guidelines on who is eligible to get the latest COVID-19 vaccines this fall. Steve Fetterman for CBC News, Los Angeles. 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 conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and one count of conspiracy to publish seditious material. He faces a maximum life sentence. Twenty-23 was the worst wildfire season recorded in in Canada. Now a new report says it led to some of the highest particulate pollution level since 1997 and that general air pollution has worsened over the last decade. Nicole Mordelaro reports. 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. Air 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 re-elected Lana Payne as its national president at a convention in Vancouver yesterday. Unifor is Canada's largest union in the private sector, representing 320,000 workers. And that is your world this hour.

I'm Neil Hurland.