The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/03 at 11:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/03 at 11:00 EDT

A lot of news podcasts give you information, the basic facts of a story. What's different about your world tonight is we actually take you there. Paul Hunter, CBC News, Washington. Margaret Evans, CBC News, Aleppo. Jerusalem. Ottawa. Prince Albert. Susan Ormiston, CBC News in Admiralty Bay, Antarctica.

Correspondents around the world, on the ground, and at the source where news is happening. So don't just know, go. Your world tonight from CBC News. Find us wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. Ahead of this month's resumption of Parliament, Prime Minister Mark Carney is opening a two-day cabinet retreat today in Toronto.

And so when we look forward, a focus on launching Build Canada homes, core to our goal of doubling. the pace of home building over the course the next decade. Along with tariffs and major resource projects, that's Carney there, saying housing will be a top priority for his government in the coming session. Parliament returns on September 15th. Meanwhile, Conservative leader Pierre Pollyev says with youth unemployment on the rise, the liberal government needs to address its immigration policies. That includes making changes to the temporary foreign workers program. Now, the liberals promised they would

cap the temporary foreign worker program at 82,000, but in the first six months, they've already handed out 105,000 permits. Why is it that they're shutting our own youth out of jobs and replacing them with low-wage temporary foreign workers from poor countries who are ultimately being exploited? However, the Carney government says Pollyov is misrepresenting the numbers. It says the 105,000 permits he's referring to, including permit extensions for people who are already in Canada. Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un were among the guests of honor at a military parade today in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.

The parade included Chinese President Xi Jinping delivering an address that appeared to be directed to the West. Comrades and friends. The Chinese nation is the great nation that is never intimidated by any bullies. and always values independence and forges ahead. U.S. President Donald Trump has posted a response that accuses she, Russia, and North Korea of conspiring against the United States. Still with Donald Trump, he says the U.S. military has carried out a targeted strike

on a small vessel in the Southern Caribbean. We just literally shot out a boat, a drug-carrying boat, a lot of drugs in that boat. These came out of Venezuela. we took it out. The U.S. President says 11 people were killed in that strike. He says the vessel was being used by the Trendiagra gang operating out of Venezuela. And he says it should serve as a warning to anyone bringing illegal drugs into the United States.

Trump has been building up a U.S. naval presence in the Caribbean. He says it's to combat drug trafficking. But in Venezuela, many believe Trump is looking to force President Nicholas Maduro from power. Taking advantage of a new health trend, Starbucks is about to start offering added protein to its coffee options. It's something Tim Hortons, actually, is already doing. But as Anise Hidari reports, while this trend purports to be about health, for the coffee companies, it's all about money. Starbucks won't say what their new protein products will cost at the end of the month, but Tim Hortons is already charging extra for protein lattes.

Retail analyst Bruce Winder says the companies could be brewing profit. They've realized there's a big market there. Supposedly the market's about a $2 billion market, and it's growing about 7% a year. But a protein latte may not make nutritional sense, says Melissa Fernandez, a dietician and associate professor at the University of Ottawa. We see the food companies creating products

in responding to consumer demand for protein, but at the source of the consumer demand is often a lot of misinformation. She says that misinformation includes the popular assumption that you should be eating one gram of protein per pound of body, weight. But whether you're going to drink a latte that has 28 grams of protein or are you going to drink a latte that has 8 grams of protein, that's not going to have a huge overall impact in your health. So more protein in your coffee could just mean less money in your wallet. And he said R. CBC News, Calgary.

And that is the Worldless Hour. You can listen to us wherever you get your podcast. The Worldless Hour is updated every hour seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings. Thank you.