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

Episode Date: September 2, 2025

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

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you'll know just how healthy they are. Visit Spexsavers.cavers.cai to book your next eye exam. Eye exams provided by independent optometrists. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. Thousands of public sector workers in British Columbia are in a strike position starting Tuesday. Their union says job action will go ahead if there's no last-minute deal with the province. Paul Finch is president of the BC General Employees Union.

So I'm not going to discuss details of the job action. Everyone will see what that's like on Tuesday. morning. And obviously, you know, we're very thankful for the public support that we've seen so far. The union represents provincial government admin staff, firefighters, and social workers. Members of the Afghan community in Canada say they're taking relief efforts into their own hands. A magnitude 6 earthquake hit Afghanistan Sunday night. The Taliban government says at least 800 people have died and more than 2,500 are injured. Paula Diane Perez reports. Oh, my God. It's hard, too. It's hard, you know.

Makai Harif watches devastating images of Afghanistan on her phone. Their photos of the rubble and people in hospital. The founder of the Afghan Women's Center of Montreal has seen this before. Two deadly earthquakes struck the country in 2022 and 2023. Executive Director Victoria Jahesh says one of the challenges is keeping that money out of the hands of the Taliban, listed by the Canadian government as a terrorist group. So the center has been using its contacts, mainly family members and trusted organizations,

to distribute donations to those in need. So this time, again, we have some relatives in that particular part, and also we know some very research organizations in Afghanistan on the ground. Jehijs says it's not enough. She wants the Canadian government to help us well. In a statement, Global Affairs Canada says, is providing support to partners on the ground, Paula Diane Perez, CBC News, Montreal.

We've got breaking news from Sudan. A landslide has wiped out a village in the western region of Darfur, killing an estimated 1,000 people. It's been over two months since a child was fatally injured at New Brunswick's last standing harness racing track, and the mother is still waiting for the coroner and police reports. Cora Fraser says she also wants to see the safety review that persuaded the town of Wood. stock to let the races restart. But as Rachel Cave reports, no one's talking. Here they go. Cora Fraser says she has watched the June 14th race on video on repeat. Her kids attended the track that day with other family. We need an ambulance, call an ambulance. When Fraser got word, her three-year-old son Gunner had been hit, she raced to the track.

My oldest daughter screaming, crying. The town suspended racing on June 17th, then voted to restart August 4th, based on a safety review that no one will release. There is now new fencing up at the track, but the mayor would not do an interview, nor would anyone, from the Woodstock Driving Club, Horse Racing New Brunswick, or the Atlantic Province's Harness Racing Commission. Simon Watts, the deputy chief of the Woodstock Police, says prosecutors have yet to review the investigation. It's technically still active. It's just coming to a conclusion.

Meanwhile, people continue to lean on and over the fences at raceways across Canada, including Charlottetown. Rachel Cave, CBC News, Woodstock, New Brunswick. And finally, Canadian actor Graham Green is dead. Green became one of the most famous indigenous actors in the world after he appeared on the big screen opposite Kevin Costner. To Tonka. Buffalo. Buffalo. His breakthrough performance came in the second.

the 1990 movie Dances with Wolves, which earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Born on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, and part of the Oneida tribe, Green performed in film, television, and on the top stages of this country. In 2015, he became a member of the Order of Canada. Green's manager confirms he died Monday in Stratford, Ontario, of natural causes, actor Graham Green dead at the age of 73. And that is your World This Hour. I'm Neil Hurland.