The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/04 at 15:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/04 at 15:00 EDT

We're in the midst of the dog days of summer. And it's called that because during this period, Sirius, the dog star, rises with the sun in the morning. Not because it feels like several dogs are breathing their humid breath on you all the time. Can you tell he's a cat person? Hello, I'm Neil Kerkstel. And I'm Chris Houghton. We're the co-hosts of As It Happens.

But throughout the summer, some of our wonderful colleagues will be hosting in our place. We will still be bringing you conversations with people at the center of the day's major news stories here in Canada and throughout the world. You can listen to As It Happens wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, The World This Hour. I'm Kate McGilfrey. We're expecting an update from the RCMP on a stabbing rampage in Manitoba. Two people are dead and at least six others wounded

in an incident on hollow water First Nation. It's about 200 kilometers northeast of Winnipeg, the wounded were transported to a hospital in Winnipeg. RCMPs say multiple detachments responded to a serious incident early this morning, and they say the suspect is dead, that there's no risk to public safety at this time. A stretch of Highway 304 is closed as this investigation continues. Mark Carney's cabinet is on its second day of meetings at a cabinet retreat in Toronto. Industry minister Melanie Jolie says the federal government is focused on the economy

by protecting existing jobs and creating new ones with new projects. We need to invest in housing, and we will be coming up with a list of major projects in the coming weeks. We're investing more in defense. Well, we've increased the salaries and the benefits of our Canadian Armed Forces as well. We need to make sure that we're building back capacity, industrial capacity, in Canada. Those investments are coming at a price. Finance Minister Francois Philippe Champagne is warning of tough choices ahead. He says the government's fall budget will contain austerity measures,

as well as spending. Portuguese authorities have identified eight of the 16 people killed in yesterday's streetcar crash, and they say there is a, quote, high possibility that remaining victims include two Canadians. Canada's global affairs says it has received information of two Canadian citizens missing in Lisbon, and it's in contact with Portuguese officials to gather more information. Another Canadian is among the injured, the nearly 150-year-old tram, as a popular tourist attraction in the city's downtown. It's now closed as the investigation continues.

Robert Kennedy Jr. faces growing calls to resign over his sweeping changes to U.S. vaccine policy. At a heated hearing on Capitol Hill, the health secretary defended his controversial tenure under President Donald Trump. Willie Lowry has more. Today was a failure for you, man. Senators grilling Robert Kennedy Jr. over his views on vaccines and health.

Kennedy was there to do. discuss President Trump's health agenda, but vaccines front and center. Here's an exchange between Kennedy and Senator Elizabeth Warren. You promised that you would not take away vaccines from anyone who wanted them. You just changed the classification of the COVID vaccine. I'm not taking them away from people, Senator. It takes it away if you can't get it from your While it was primarily Democrats on the attack, a few Republican senators also expressed concern over Kennedy's decision to fire the head of the CDC and no longer recommend the COVID-19 vaccine. Willie Lowry, CBC News, Washington. Famed Italian fashion designer, Giorgio Armani, has died at 91.

As Megan Williams reports, 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 chic, 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 stick. lines of high tailoring. And no matter what shape a man or a woman is, they look great.

Said actor Liam Niesem, 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.

And that is your world this hour. For news anytime, visit our website, cBCNews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey.