The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/31 at 04:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 31, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/31 at 04:00 EDT

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Certain conditions apply. from cbc news the world this hour i'm neil kumar in alberta as most kindergarten to grade 12 students prepare to go back to class next week teachers and administrators and all public catholic and francophone schools across the province are in a legal strike position and could walk off the job sam samson reports from edmonton alberta's education minister says the union keeps moving the goalpost while he believes the province presented a fair deal It said it would raise teacher salaries by 12% and hire 3,000 more. We are trying to get a little bit of a better understanding of what precisely are the troubling issues. They've been mentioning classroom complexity issues. They've said that we need to hire more teachers.

We've agreed to that now. However, they're saying something different, which is that, well, we actually need increased wages. The union says they already voted down the 12% raise earlier this summer. and the 3,000 extra staff, they say, just is not enough. As students begin attending classes across the province, they'll once again be returning to a public education system that spends the least per student in Canada. When asked about the potential of a lockout after school is already in session,

Alberta's education minister said he believes the two sides are very close and he'd like to see the union back at the table. Sam Samson, CBC News, Edmonton. In Ontario, workers at all 24 in the province's colleges could be on strike in a matter of weeks. The bargaining team representing over 10,000 support workers, like librarians and registrar employees, have requested a no-board report,

a move that could put them in a legal strike position by September 11th. The council representing Ontario colleges has proposed binding arbitration. As kids head back to school, some young Ontario athletes are being educated about gender-based violence with help from the Canadian Football League. The program is a collaborative effort between charities, the CFL, the provincial government, and local schools. It tries to ensure that young men and boys will learn about healthy relationships and the importance of respect.

Justin Chandler tells us more. Teenage football players in Burlington, Ontario, Neil, while Hamilton Tiger Cats defensive back, Stavros Katzantanis, speaks with them about respect. The pro football player is there with the coaching boys into men program. Since 2017, Inchival House of Hamilton and the Thai Cats have worked together to educate youth about gender-based violence. That program has expanded to over one. 100 schools. It now involves the Toronto Argonauts and Ottawa Red Blacks, too. Sue Taylor, executive director of Interval House of Hamilton, says it's proven to be effective.

They'll cover everything from healthy relationships to what respect means. Ultimately, the powerful message for us is violence will never equal strength. Ontario Provincial Member of Parliament, Jess Dixon, is working with the coaching boys into men program. A big part of this is about teaching bystander intervention, like the ability to understand in some ways, you know, what would a good person do in this situation? Interval House of Hamilton's goal is to double or triple the number of schools participating over the next year. Justin Chandler, CBC News, Hamilton. In Australia, thousands of people have joined in on anti-immigration demonstrations across the country,

condemning the center-left government, saying that they are trying to spread hate and that they are linked to neo-Nazis. According to the group's website, March for Australia rallies against immigration are being held in Sydney, Melbourne, and other state capitals. On Stewart Lake in the village of Tachi, west of Prince George, B.C., the smokehouses are filled with salmon. It's the first time in decades that the village has seen this many Sockai returns. As Hannah Peterson reports, the community is celebrating a return of both salmon and culture. We're just excited for the community to have their smoke houses running and going and flowing. Darren Haskell works for the Klass Den Nation. He says in Tachi, on the northwest shore of Stewart Lake,

Sokai salmon are coming back to their spawning grounds in full force. the first time in decades, the village's smokehouses are filled with hundreds of fish. This is what our ancestors did, and we're still doing it right now. One of the smokehouses belongs to elder Margaret Mattis, who's been busy preparing salmon and sharing traditional ways with her whole family. Last year, her smokehouse saw just 15 fish, this year, over 200 in one week. Margaret's son Dawn says he hopes to pass down the knowledge to his own daughter. And that was Hannah Peterson reporting.

For CBC News, I'm Neil Kumar.