The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/03 at 15:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/03 at 15:00 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, the world this hour. I'm Kate McGilfrey. Conservative leader Pierre Pollyev says the federal government has broken its promise to curb the number of temporary foreign workers allowed into Canada.

The conservative leaders now calling for the program to be scrapped entirely. David Thurton has the story. Young people today form what I call generation screwed. seizing on that generational angst, conservative leader, Pierre Pahliav, is asking the liberal government to end a popular program, big and small businesses, rely on. Conservatives are calling on the Carney government to permanently scrap the temporary foreign worker program and to stop issuing visas for any new temporary foreign workers. Polyov says the program has flooded the Canadian job market with cheap foreign labor.

He's offering alternative for conservatives to instead create a standalone program. Program for Difficult to Fill agricultural labor, Prime Minister Mark Kearney. When I talk to businesses around the country, especially, particularly in Quebec, their number one issue is tariffs and their number two issue is access to temporary foreign workers. Carney said it's clear Canada needs to improve its immigration policies and set clearer goals. David Thornton, CBC News, Ottawa. Prime Minister Mark Carney's meeting with his cabinet in Toronto today. The planning meeting taking place less than two weeks before Parliament returns and about a month

before his government presents its first federal budget. Carney says government spending has been growing at a rate that's not sustainable and that cutting it is a top priority. Our approach to budgeting is to spend less so that Canadians can invest more. And so big focus on reducing our operational spending, think of it as our day-to-day spending, well at the same time catalyzing enormous investment in those big projects and building homes. Carney also says his government will draw up plans to help industries, hurt by Donald Trump's tariffs.

RCMP in Saskatchewan have arrested the woman who calls herself the Queen of Canada. You tell her to no one is going to resist. Are they in the sanction? No one's going to resist? All of them will cooperate. Romana Didulo was seen surrendering to officers in a live stream that went out early this morning. She's a cult leader who promotes a number of conspiracy theories. For the past two years, she and her followers have been camped up. in a former school building in the small village of Richmount.

RCMP are promising more details on what happened later today. The U.S. President is promising to send National Guard troops into more American cities to crack down on crime. Donald Trump's use of the military in places like Los Angeles and D.C. has been met with widespread criticism and legal challenges. But as Aaron Collins reports, the list of cities he's targeting is growing. Do we go to Chicago or do we go to a place like New Orleans? Donald Trump weighing his options. The U.S. President determined to send troops into more U.S. cities.

And Trump says the governor of Louisiana wants the help. We have a great governor who wants us to come in and straighten out a very nice section of this country that's become quite tough. Of course, not all states have been so welcoming. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, not a fair. fan. None of this is about fighting crime or making Chicago safer. For Trump, it's about testing his power and producing a political drama to cover up for his corruption. And the legality of using the military to do police work very much in question. A California judge said this week, it isn't legal. The Trump administration says it is and will challenge that ruling

in court. Erin Collins, CBC News, Washington. And Toronto's annual IndyCar race is moving to a new home just outside of the city. This is the only indie series race held outside of the U.S., and it's part of that same race series as the Indianapolis 500. After nearly 40 years on downtown Toronto's Lakeshore Boulevard, the race will now be held in Markham, Ontario, starting next summer. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey.

Thank you.