The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/03 at 19:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/03 at 19:00 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. He's 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 for difficult to field 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.

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. Thank you. That's the sound of Romana Didulo, surrendering to officers while in the middle of a live stream early this morning. Didulo is a cult leader who tells her followers that Canada's laws do not apply to them. For the past two years, they've been living in a former school building in the small Saskatchewan village of Richmount.

Police moved in after receiving a report of a firearm. side, they say four replica handguns were found during their search. 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 triple E. 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.

Alison Northcott, CBC News, Montreal. In Portugal. Ambulances rushed to the scene of an electric streetcar crash, which killed at least 15 people in downtown Lisbon. 18 others were 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. This tram has been operating for nearly 150 years.

Lisbon's mayor says the city isn't mourning, and assures that officials are working to support victims and their families. And Toronto's annual Indy Car Race is moving to a new home just outside the city. This is the only indie series race held outside of the U.S., 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. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey.