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

Episode Date: August 28, 2025

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

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progress ever made at improving air quality. Nicole Mortilero 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 Ukraine, overnight, a series of drone and missile strikes on central Kiev has killed at least 15 people. It's believed at least three children are among the dead. As many as 100 buildings have been damaged in the bombardment, including a kindergarten and a shopping mall. Cruise across the city continue to pull people out of the rubble. All this, as U.S. negotiators continue to work on a ceasefire agreement following this month's summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

Now to Minneapolis. That's from one of a number of memorial services held overnight in the wake of yesterday's school shooting. Two children, aged 8 and 10, were killed with another 17 wounded. And amid the grief, there were calls for action on gun control. Peggy Flanagan is the state's lieutenant governor. 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. Police say the shooting suspect, a 23-year-old male, died near the scene of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police say he was armed with a rifle, a shotgun, and a pistol.

We'll learn today whether the Supreme Court of Canada will hear a case involving a First Nations claim to a stretch of popular beachfront on the shore of Lake Huron. It's a claim by the Sagin First Nation that was upheld last year by Ontario's Superior Court. But now the municipality is asking the Supreme Court to step in. Andrew Lupton has more. It was just kind of a shock to our municipality. Jay Kirkland is the mayor of South Bruce Peninsula. that includes the town of Sable Beach.

Over the Canada day-long weekend, the town's iconic retro-styled welcome sign was switched overnight. Instead of saying welcome to Sable Beach, it now reads, Welcome to Saugeen Beach. Saugeen First Nation is a local indigenous group. The sudden sign swap happened

after a series of court decisions. They ruled that a survey mistake made back in 1855 deprived the band of land ceded to them in a treaty with the crown. The town is asking the Supreme Court of Canada to hear its appeal to reverse those decisions Kirkland said it's to clear up confusion. I think there's other cases that are going to pop up from this.

Lawyer Nurey Frame doesn't see it that way. He's representing the First Nation. It is a case which is about ensuring that the treaty boundaries are reflected on the ground. The Supreme Court's decision on whether or not they'll hear the appeal is expected this morning. Andrew Lepton, CBC News, London, Ontario. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings. Thank you.