The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/05 at 10:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 5, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/05 at 10:00 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, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. We start with the latest jobs report, which is showing Canada's unemployment rate is on the rise.

Statistics Canada says it's jumped to 7.1% last month from 6.9 in July. That's the highest we've seen it outside the pandemic in almost a decade. In total, 66,000 jobs were lost in August, the majority being part-time positions. Still with economic news, we're expecting an announcement today from Prime Minister Mark Carney on the Liberals plan to help some of the Canadian industries hardest hit by U.S. and Chinese tariffs. Janice McGregor reports. While the biggest headlines on future federal spending are probably going to wait for his budget in October,

Mark Carney's cabinet knows it can't wait on some other moves to help the sectors that are under the most pressure right now, starting with the automotive industry, which has been begging the liberals for months to rethink its electric vehicle mandate, which, starting next year, is otherwise going to require car companies that don't meet sales targets for electric vehicles to pay credits to automakers who do. The government's also under pressure to prop up the agriculture industry that continues to bear the brunt of Chinese. tariffs that were slapped on in retaliation for Canada going along with U.S. demands for high tariffs on imports like electric vehicles that are made in China. The Prime Minister has asked his parliamentary secretary to join Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe on a trade mission that starts this weekend trying to ease tensions with Beijing, but canola farmers in particular are desperate for help in the meantime. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa.

Two Canadians are now confirmed to be among the dead in this week's finicular crash in Lisbon. Portuguese police say 11 of the 16 people killed in the incident were foreign tourists. Crews have now removed the wreckage with government officials scheduled to release a preliminary report later today. Russian President Vladimir Putin is insisting he is willing to talk to his US counterpart about ending the hostilities in Ukraine. President Trump and I have an open dialect. There is an arrangement in place that if needed we can get in touch. talk to one another. President Trump knows that I'm open to those dialogues. I know that here is also open. That's Putin speaking today at an economic forum where he was also asked

about this week's meeting of the Coalition of the Willing and the possible deployment of troops to Ukraine once the fighting is over. Should any troops be placed in Ukraine, especially now in the course of the military action, we would treat those as righteous goals for an attack. a righteous target that we will aim for. Putin adds that he is fine with Ukraine joining the European Union, but not NATO. The United States has issued a warning to Venezuelan. It comes after two Venezuelan warplanes flew over an American naval vessel in the Caribbean Sea. The U.S. is calling it provocative, even as it steps up its presence in the region.

Willie Lowry has more. This is all an extension of President Donald Trump's long-held desire to curb the flow of illegal drugs into the US. Now, the administration has been pretty clear in recent days that it's willing to go on the offensive. Earlier this week, Trump released footage that he said showed a strike on a boat allegedly full of drugs. Now, that strike raises serious legal questions, and it's unclear what authority the U.S. has to take actions like that in international waters. Here's Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth defending the strike. If you're trafficking drugs and you're a known cartel entity, a designated

terror organization. And they're headed for the United States or part of a process that would head to the United States. That will have lethal consequences. The poisoning of the American people is over. There's been a bit of a war of words between Washington and Caracas. And this incident

where two jets flew near U.S. ships appears to be the latest escalation. Willie Lowry, CBC News, Washington. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.