The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/04 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/04 at 12:00 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, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. Prime Minister Mark Carney and his cabinet are meeting again today in Toronto preparing for the resumption of Parliament.

And budget talks are at the top of the agenda, with the liberals looking to table their first Carney budget sometime next month. Tom Perry reports. I want to be straight with Canadians. Prime Minister was straight yesterday. Tough choices ahead. Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne kicking off the final day of a cabinet planning session, dropping hints of what's coming in the federal budget set to be tabled next month. We're going to be ambitious in our investment and rigorous in how we manage our expenses. Champagne echoing his boss, Prime Minister Mark Carney, who says his government's first budget will combine investment with austerity.

Carney has already signaled where he plans to spend more on defense, infrastructure, and housing. To do that, though, the government will need to find savings in other areas. Champagne has already instructed federal departments to identify possible cuts, including cuts, to the civil service. The upcoming budget has been a main focus of this two-day cabinet session as ministers prepare for the return of parliament and a busy fall agenda. Tom Perry, CBC News, Toronto. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Carney has announced they'll be flying to China this weekend. It's a three-day visit with Carney joining a trade delegation headed up by Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe. The delegation is looking to engage Chinese officials on multiple fronts, including the tariffs currently imposed on Canadian canola producers.

Alberta school boards are sending a letter to the parents of female students to confirm their eligibility for school athletics. In accordance with new provincial legislation, parents will be required to confirm their child's sex. Colleen Underwood has more. The Calgary Public and Catholic school boards are issuing letters this week to families of female athletes, age 12 to 18, competing in female-only leagues. Parents must confirm their child's sex was female at birth in order to participate. Calgary mom, Emily Harlick, says despite her 13-year-old's love of wrestling,

badminton, and track and field, she can't sign it. It feels really intrusive. And then I really think about my trans family members and my trans friends. And this is just another barrier or another message of you don't belong. Wally Berbash has a son in grade 12 at a Calgary high school. He says he agrees with the rules, concerned that transgender athletes have biological advantages. This is one place where you cannot have a complete 100% inclusivity. Families don't need to provide the birth certificate as proof unless an athlete's eligibility is challenged and the board asks for it.

Colleen Underwood, CBC News, Calgary. Celebrated Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani has died at the age of 91. As we hear now from Megan Williams, Armani went from reinventing the men's jacket to presiding over a multi-billion dollar fashion empire. Two fashion lovers, he was re Giorgio, King Giorgio, a man and a brand synonymous with cool, comfortable elegance. As recently as last fall at age 90, He appeared at his own runway show, frail but still the picture of Sheik, firmly in charge of the fashion house he founded in the 70s

and fiercely guarded over ever since. One of his earliest creations set the tone, a men's jacket stripped of the stiff lines of high tailoring. And no matter what shape a man or a woman is, he just, they look great. Said actor Liam Nissom, one of the many stars who wore Armani, from Beyonce and Sophia Lorenne to Robert. De Niro and Samuel L. Jackson. A funeral chamber will be set up this weekend in Italy's fashion capital of Milan for admirers to pay tribute.

Megan Williams, CBC News, Rome. The 50th Toronto International Film Festival gets underway today with the opening film being a John Candy documentary. John Candy, I Like Me, celebrates the life of the late Canadian comedian. Also being screened at TIF this year, a film celebrating the likes of Angelino Jolie. Idris Elba and Hiano Reeves. And that is the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings.