The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/03 at 18:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/03 at 18:00 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. this hour. I'm Kate McGilfrey. Conservative leader Pierre Polyev is calling on the federal government to scrap the temporary foreign workers program. He says the program has flooded the market with cheap labor and has made it harder for young Canadians to find work. 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? Polyev says the conservatives would instead create a separate stand-alone program for difficult to fill agricultural jobs. Prime Minister Mark Carney insists temporary foreign workers are in demand right across Canada

and especially in Quebec, but he says the government is working on setting new goals. Mark Carney is also meeting with his cabinet in Toronto right now, ahead of Parliament's return in less than two weeks. The ministers are drawing up a strategy for the unresolved trade war with the U.S. and plans for a fall budget. Tom Perry reports. Good morning, everyone. Thank you very much. In the past, this would have been called a cabinet retreat, though Mark Carney has a more formal business-like term for this two-day session,

a cabinet planning forum. Carney getting together with his ministers to map out the months ahead, including a budget, he says, will combine investment with austerity. It's both. It's both. Carney says the government will reign in spending and has instructed federal departments to start identifying places to cut. The prime minister also offered an. update on trade talks with the U.S.

I last spoke to the president Monday evening. We spoke at length. Kearney, revealing he spoke with Donald Trump this week on a wide range of issues, including trade, a conversation that, in the past, would likely have been announced and highlighted by the prime minister's office soon after it happened. Tom Perry, CBC News, Toronto. RCMP in Saskatchewan say they've arrested 17 people, including the woman who calls herself the Queen of Canada.

Romana Didulo is a cult leader who's been living with her followers in the small village of Richmount, Saskatchewan. RCMP inspector Ashley St. Germain says police descended on the property where she was staying early this morning. It was a privately owned decommissioned school inhabited by a group of individuals. The search warrant was obtained after we received a report of an individual occupying the building was in possession of a firearm. St. Germain says they found four replica handguns in their search. So far, no charges. have been laid. A coroner's report says the murder of a seven-year-old girl in Quebec could have been prevented.

The investigation says government agencies failed to coordinate their investigations. That's despite numerous red flags, including malnourishment and abuse. Sarah Levitt has the story and a warning. Some of these details are disturbing. Quebec coroner Gianne Kemal says this was one of the most difficult investigations she's done in her career. the seven-year-old girl, whose CBC News is not naming, died in 2019. Police found her confined in a room bound with duct tape, including over her mouth. Her father found guilty of confinement, her stepmother of unpremeditated murder and confinement.

Kamez says her investigation found there were multiple warning signs in the years leading up to the girl's death and that several government agencies, including police, child protective services and the health system worked in silos. There were signs of negligence, abuse, malnutrition, and more. Now, Kamez says there needs to be a complete overhaul of how Quebec deals with vulnerable children, calling the girl's death a turning point. Sarah Levitt's CBC News, Montreal. And Florida aims to become the first state to phase out all childhood vaccine mandates. The state currently requires children attending daycares and public schools

to be vaccinated for measles, chickenpox, hepatitis, polio, and other diseases. Surgeon General Joseph Latipo calls vaccine mandates a, quote, immoral intrusion on people's rights, which he compares to slavery. And that is your world this hour. News anytime on our website, cbcnews.ca.c.a. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilvery.