The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/04 at 02:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/04 at 02:00 EDT

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Please play responsibly. Charitable gaming, community good. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Neil Hurland. The Trump administration is taking the fight over tariffs to the U.S. Supreme Court. The White House is asking the court to rule quickly that the president has the power to impose sweeping trade penalties. The petition was filed late tonight. We have a very, very big case in the Supreme Court. I can only say this.

If we don't win that case, our country is going to suffer so greatly. What's the backup plan, sir? But I think we're going to have a big victory. A federal appeals court in the U.S. has already ruled that most of President Trump's tariffs are illegal, but that court is allowing the tariffs to stay in place for now. Prime Minister Mark Carney and his cabinet will wrap up their planning session in Toronto Thursday. Carney and his team are preparing for the return of parliament and the return of conservative leader Pierre Pahliav,

who will be back in the House of Commons after losing his seat in the last federal election. Tom Perry has more. We're going to focus on being efficient. As he kicked off his cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Mark Carney leaned hard into a few key issues, promising to bring in a budget that would include investment but also austerity.

So we need to rein in spending. We need to find efficiencies. Carney as well, revealing he spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump this week about a wide range of issues, including tariffs and trade. But while Carney was mapping out his government's priorities for the coming months, the reality is that Mark Carney is failing. Conservative leader Pierre Pauliev was in the Toronto area, taking aim at the Prime Minister over his budget plans and dealings with the U.S. President. Pauliev, who lost his Ottawa area seat in the last election, will be back in the House of Commons when Parliament

resumes after winning a safe conservative riding in Alberta in a by-election. The conservative leader looking to challenge the carefully laid plans of Carney and his ministers. Tom Perry, CBC News, Toronto. Voters in Jamaica have re-elected Andrew Holness as Prime Minister for the third time. Make no mistake about it. This was not an easy victory. Make no mistake about it. This was a fight. The Jamaica Labor Party beat the opposition people's national party, corruption and economic concerns dominated the campaign. Under the leadership of Andrew Holness, murders have

dropped 43% in the country the most significant decline in decades. He also promised to raise the minimum wage in Jamaica. While she calls herself the Queen of Canada, now she's behind bars. A cult leader is now in custody after the RCMP rated an abandoned school building. As Jeffrey Tram reports, Romana Didalo and her followers have been camping. camping in the building in a small Saskatchewan village. Leave the phone down. You're under arrest. All right. She calls herself the Queen of Canada, and now she's in police custody.

Romano Didolo's arrest was captured by her phone in a live stream. Diedelow was one of 16 adults taken by Saskatchewan RCMP after they received a report of a firearm. A search warrant was executed at a former school in the village of Richmond, located 365 kilometers west of Regina. Inspector Ashley St. Germain is with the RCMP. We have located and seized four replica handguns, one inside the building, and three inside vehicles. The news comes as a relief for Bridgemount resident Vanessa Johnson. This is the best day of my life right now, like literally. It's so great that we have finally gotten some movement.

Diedelow and her followers have been in Saskatchewan for two years. Her group stems from a larger Q&M movement. Jeffrey Tram, CBC News, Regina. Investigators in Portugal are trying to determine how a finicular rail car crashed Wednesday. Fifteen people are dead, another 18 injured. The popular tourist attraction moves people down a steep hill. Eyewitness reports suggest the brakes failed before the rail car crashed into a building. Foreigners are among the dead.

And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil. Herland.