The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/05 at 11:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 5, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/05 at 11:00 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. We're expecting an announcement this hour from Prime Minister Mark Carney on the government's EV mandate. CBC News has learned the government is putting the policy on pause pending a full review.

The auto sector has been calling for the mandate to be scrapped, saying it will put thousands of jobs at risk. The electric vehicle announcement is just one in a series of measures. Carney is rolling out today, aimed primarily at the industry's hit hardest by U.S. and Chinese tariffs. In other economic news, Canada's unemployment rate is on the rise. Statistics Canada says it jumped last month to 7.1% up from 6.9 in July. Peter Armstrong has more. This is worse than expected, and expectations weren't exactly high to begin with. It extends the job losses we've seen since the beginning of the year.

The unemployment rate is the highest we've seen outside of the COVID pandemic since 2016. Stackand says now 1.6 million Canadians were unemployed in August. And if you look into the specific sectors, you can see a bit of a trend there too. High-skilled technical, professional and scientific services, transportation and warehousing, manufacturing. Those were the sector's hardest hit. Ontario, B.C. and Alberta, that's where the job losses were concentrated. Now, for all of that doom and gloom, there is one caveat here of the 66,000 jobs lost. 60,000 were part-time.

Full-time work was little changed, in the words of Stadkin. And that's good, but clearly not enough to offset this wave of lousy jobs data right across the economy. Peter Armstrong, CBC News, Toronto. 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. Chris Brown has more.

Overnight, the wreckage of the Gloria Lyft was removed by an immense crane, which also took away the second less seriously damaged fornicular rail car that shared the same route up the steep, windy hill. The ripped up rails and road underneath the wreckage

hinted at the force of the crash Wednesday night. Police said identifying some of the 16 people killed has been a challenge, including the two Canadians. So we were driving up, and all of a sudden, there was no brakes in our cable car. It was going down fast with acceleration. Rasha Abdo and her family had just started up the hill on the lower tram when it suddenly lurched backwards, and the higher tram came around the corner above them

and crashed at very high speed. The early speculation is that the cable connecting the two tram cars, which provided traction and stability, snapped. but the CEO of the company that maintained the railway said an inspection had just been done that morning and all was in order. Chris Brown, CBC News, Lisbon. Russian President Vladimir Putin is insisting a warn is issuing today a warning to Ukraine's allies. Putin says any troops deployed to Ukraine once the fighting is over would be considered by Moscow to be enemy combatants. Crystal Gamansing reports.

Talk of the war in Ukraine spilled over into a Russian economic forum. Vladimir Putin said foreign military contingents in Ukraine will be legitimate targets for destruction. There are commitments from 26 nations for an international post-war reassurance force for Ukraine. What's happening with the coalition of the willing is even bigger than Russia and Ukraine. Admiral Tony Radican was until this week the chief of the defense forces in the UK It's much more about European security, this adjustment with America, the reassurance to America that Europe is taking more responsibility for its security. Putin says if a lasting peace is achieved, there would be no need for international troops in Ukraine

that Moscow would respect a peace deal. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, London. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.