The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/03 at 17:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/03 at 17:00 EDT

Hi, everybody. I'm J.B. Poisson and I host Frontburner. It's Canada's most listened to Daily News podcast. Just the other day, we were in a story meeting talking about how we can barely keep up with what's going on in Canada and the world right now. And like, it's our job to do that. So if you are looking for a one-stop shop for the most important and interesting news stories of the day, we've got you. Stop doom scrolling. Follow Frontburner instead. 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 Paulyev 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 for difficult-to-filled agricultural labor, Prime Minister Mark Carney. 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 Thurton, CBC News, Ottawa. RCMP in Saskatchewan have arrested 17 people, including the woman, who calls herself the Queen of Canada.

You can tell your team no one is going to resist. I gave instruction 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 tells her followers that Canada's laws do not apply to them. For the past two years, they have been camped out in a former school building in the small village of Rich Mound. Police moved in. After receiving a report of a firearm inside that building, they say four replica handguns were found.

So far, no charges have been laid. A rare human case of a mosquito-borne illness has been diagnosed in an adult in Hamilton, Ontario. Eastern equine encephalitis is mostly found in wild birds and mosquitoes. But infected mosquitoes can also transmit the virus to horses and sometimes to humans. Allison Northcott reports. It is a devastating disease if humans get it. Dr. Fiona Hunter, a specialist in medical veterinary entomology at Brock University, says while Eastern equine encephalitis can be dangerous, the virus is rare in humans.

And it's extremely unfortunate that somebody in Hamilton has contracted AAA. Public health officials say a Hamilton resident with no known travel history has been diagnosed with Eastern equine encephalitis virus, also known as AAA. It's the first human case reported in Canada this season. Symptoms of the mosquito-borne virus can vary. Some have none at all. Others get flu-like symptoms. but it can also cause inflammation of the brain,

and in about a third of cases, people can die within days. Last year, one person in Ottawa died from the virus. According to the Canadian animal health surveillance system, seven horses have contracted Tripoli this season so far. Allison Northcott, CBC News, Montreal. In Portugal. Ambulances rushed to the scene of an electric streetcar crash, which killed at least 15 people.

people in downtown Lisbon. 18 people are injured, some of them seriously. Witnesses say the historic yellow tram popular with tourists derailed and crashed into a building. The cause remains unknown. Authorities say both Portuguese residents and foreign nationals are among the dead. The tram has been operating for nearly 150 years. Lisbon's mayor says the city is in mourning and assures officials are working to support victims and their families. Finally, Toronto's annual IndyCar race is moving to a new home just outside the city. This is the only indie series race held outside of the U.S. And as part of the 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. That is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey. Thank you.