The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/02 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 2, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/02 at 12:00 EDT

It's not just you. News in Canada and around the world is moving at an incredible pace, which is where we come in. I'm Jamie Poisson and I host Frontburner, Canada's most popular daily news podcast. And what we try to do is hit the breaks on a story that you actually want to know more about. So try us out. Follow Front Burner wherever you get your podcast, Front Burner, stories you want to follow five days a week. It's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. As students across the country return to school, a new report is suggesting that bullying, poverty, and mental illness

are on the rise among Canadian youth. The Raising Canada report says more than 70% of Canadian teenagers say they experienced some form of bullying in the previous school year. As well, the report says at least 13% of Canadian children are living currently in poverty. The charity organization Children First says the findings highlight, quote, an entire generation at risk. The Afghan Red Crescent Society says at least 1,400 people are dead

following this weekend's devastating earthquake. And here in Canada, the Afghan community has launched an emergency campaign to get aid into the country without it ending up in the hands of the Taliban. Paula Dyan Perez has more. 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, you know, some relatives in that particular part. And also we know some very, like, research organizations in Afghanistan on the ground. Jahesh 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. Now to Sudan's Darfur region where at least 1,000 people have been killed after a landslide wiped out an entire village. And this is right in the middle of the conflict and the rainy season and a corridor break. That is Antoine Girard, the UN's deputy humanitarian coordinator for Sudan. The rebel group in charge of the village says it was leveled after days of torrential rain. Gerard says this area of Darfur has been hosting thousands of people displaced by the Civil War.

A federal judge has ruled U.S. President Donald Trump's deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles was illegal. However, the judge has stopped short of demanding the withdrawal of the troops that are still in the city. Trump sent the National Guard into L.A. in June after protests broke out over immigration arrests. Last month, his administration sent thousands of troops into Washington, D.C., and Trump continues to suggest that Chicago may be next. B.C. emergency officials say a new round of wildfires is a distinct possibility, in the coming days following a Labor Day weekend that saw thousands of lightning strikes across the province. There are currently more than 160 blazes burning in BC, with the majority

believed to be touched off by lightning. Meanwhile, winds have increased the intensity of Nova Scotia's largest wildfire in Annapolis Valley. It's now 85 square kilometers in size and continues to burn out of control. And in the Northwest Territories and out-of-control fire on the out-skirts of Fort Providence was estimated over the weekend to be less than one kilometer from the community. Actor Graham Green has died. For Tonka. Batonka. Buffalo. Oh.

Buffalo. Fertonka. That's Green in the 1990, Kevin Costner film Dances with Wolves. It was a performance that earned Green an Oscar nomination. Born in the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, Green's career as both the stage and screen actor here in Canada and in Hollywood, dates back to the mid-1970s. His manager confirms Green died yesterday in Stratford, Ontario at the age of 73. And that is The World This Hour.

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