The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/01 at 02:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 1, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/01 at 02:00 EDT

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Certain conditions apply. from cbc news the world this hour i'm neil hurland a powerful earthquake has shaken eastern afghanistan near the border with pakistan at least 250 people are dead another 500 injured rescue helicopters are taking the injured to the city of jalalabad the magnitude 6 quake hit just before midnight most of its Buildings are low-rise constructions and some poorly built, making them more dangerous than an earthquake. Now to the northwest territories, hundreds of people in the hamlet of Fort Providence are being told to get out while it's still safe to do so. A fire nearby exploded in size this weekend. It's now burning near the community. The fear is winds could push it even closer. Fort

Providence is southwest of Yellowknife. Veronica Gargan lives there, but tonight she's at an evacuation Center in Hay River. I came by a bus. It was quite smoky. I mean, that smoke was getting thick, so it's kind of scary, too. So right now we're in a safe place. Firefighters are in Fort Providence

trying to save homes and critical infrastructure. Back to school will be anything but normal for some communities affected by wildfire. One community in Newfoundland has no school to go to. In other parts of the country, kids and their parents have been through stressful times related to the fires. Deanna Suminac Johnson has more. He's really upset because that was the school.

He had his friends there. Scott Chandler and Robin Dwyer lost their home in the fires around Western Bay, Newfoundland. On top of that, their 8-year-old son's school, Cabot Academy, also burned to the ground. He had great relationships with the teachers. He has a lot of school pride. Even if school buildings are still standing,

Families in areas affected by this summer's wildfires may be hard to reach just days before school starts. Alan Campbell is the president of the Canadian School Board's Association. We're hearing from members across the country that the schools are still having a difficult time contacting families who had evacuated at some point over the summer. Campbell says wildfire smoke is also a problem for schools. Forecasting air quality based on the movement of wildfire smoke, that will just as much now become, part of planning considerations, as is blizzard forecasting. Deanna Suminac Johnson, CBC News, Toronto. We're following a developing story in Nevada.

A man has been found dead at the annual Burning Man Festival in the desert, and police are investigating it as a murder. Authorities were alerted about the man Saturday. Rangers found the body of a white adult male lying on the ground in a pool of blood. The corpse was taken to a medical examiner's office, the annual burning man gathering in the black black. Rock Desert attracts tens of thousands of artists, musicians, and party goers. The group Habitat for Humanity helps to make homeownership affordable for Canadians.

But in southern Ontario, costs are so expensive, the nonprofit is increasingly forced to find wealthier families who will be able to shoulder the burden of a big mortgage. Kate McGilvie reports. Single parent Jody Delaney moved into her Habitat for Humanity Home in London, Ontario in 2019. Like with all Habitat homes, she didn't need a down payment and pays a mortgage geared to her income. Having affordable housing that is also creating equity for our future is life-changing. But Delaney knows that another version of her, applying for the same program today with her bookkeeper's salary, might not make the cut. Across southern Ontario, habitat locations have had to shift up their applicant income range.

In some places like the Greater Toronto area and Windsor, the nonprofit is looking for households earning around six figures. and as much as $135,000 a year. Karen Covielo is the Senior Vice President for Habitat for Humanity Canada. She says her organization has always focused on getting people on the edge of being priced out into home ownership and that there are other programs meant to serve lower income earners. It's kind of incredible, but that's what it's come to, at least in this region. Kate McGilvery's CBC News, Toronto. And that is your World This Hour. I'm Neil Hurland.

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