The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/28 at 15:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/28 at 15:00 EDT

Do you hear that? It's a wood thrush. Songbirds lift our hearts. Bring us joy. Support healthy environments and connect us with nature. Sadly, due to free-roaming cats, collisions with buildings and habitat loss, over a quarter of Canada's birds have disappeared.

It's heartbreaking. With your help, Nature Canada has mobilized thousands of Canadians for more than 85 years to protect and celebrate birds. To find out how you can save bird lives, go to birds.naturecanada.ca. From CBC News, The World This Hour, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. A scathing new report says sports in Canada is rife with maltreatment and abuse. The Future of Sport Commission's preliminary report identified a litany of problems

and offered recommendations for fixing them. Sarah Levitt has the details. The Canadian sports system is in crisis. Liz Mezzanove did not hold back while describing the state of sport in Canada. The head of the Future of Sport Commission describes widespread abuse and maltreatment of athletes, systemic lack of transparency and disproportionate funding. These deeply ingrained issues give rise to conflicts of interest, favoritism, a win at all cost thinking, and a pervasive fear of losing funding across the system.

Together, they fuel a longstanding culture of silence in sport. The Commission spent the past year and a half speaking with more than 800 people in the sports, sporting world in 13 cities across the country. Now it recommends a complete overhaul from top to bottom of how sports are run in this country, including the development of a public registry of sanctioned individuals and standardized ways of handling complaints and victims. Sarah Levitt's CBC News, Montreal. The government of Quebec says it's planning to ban prayer in public places. Secularism minister Jean-Francois-Roberge says he will table-loved.

legislation this fall in order to strengthen secularism in the province. The announcement comes on the heels of dozens of recommendations made to the government by an independent committee. But a province-wide ban was not among the recommendations. Instead, the committee said it should be up to municipalities to regulate the practice. Nova Scotia officials say the Long Lake Wildfire in the Annapolis Valley has consumed 20 homes. In the two weeks since it broke out, more than a thousand people have been forced to evacuate. And as Nicola Segan reports, some of them have nowhere to go. Still in a bit of a shock at the moment.

Just two weeks away from welcoming their first child, Megan Yelland and Michael Zeman's home is gone, destroyed by the out-of-control Long Lake Wildfire, covering more than 82 square kilometers in the west of the province, forcing more than 1,000 people to evacuate. Officials are now confirming 20 homes have been destroyed. Emergency Management Minister Kim Maslund speaking directly to those families. The heartbreak of seeing the place you fill with memories and comfort and safety being destroyed so suddenly is not something that I can wrap my mind around. Evacquees have to scramble for places to stay long term in a rural area with few options. The province has announced financial support for evacuees, but many in the community are demanding more answers.

about where they can live while they rebuild. Nicholas Sagan, CBC News, Halifax. Today is the last day Canadian retailers can ship small amounts of goods to the United States duty-free. The Trump administration is eliminating the so-called de minimis exemption starting tomorrow. It allowed duty-free import of orders under $800 into the U.S. The change is likely to hurt small Canadian retailers who sell goods online to U.S. customers. Canada is among several nations condemning Russia's overnight attack on Ukraine.

Dron and missile strikes on central Kiev killed at least 21 people. The EU headquarters in the capital is among 100 buildings damaged in the attack. Ursula von der Leyen is the president of the European Commission. She says the EU is in the process of finalizing a new round of sanctions against Moscow. It shows that the Kremlin will stop at nothing to terrorize Ukraine, blindly killing civilians, men, women and children, and even targeting the European Union. Prime Minister Mark Carney says the attack

proves Russia's Vladimir Putin is interested in killing when he should be talking peace. And that is the world this hour. For news anytime, visit our website, cvcnews.a. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. Thank you.