The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/05 at 13:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 5, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/05 at 13:00 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, the world this hour. I'm Kate McGilfrey. Our ambition is to build the strongest economy in the G7. Prime Minister Mark Carney has unveiled a wide-ranging package of measures aimed at achieving that goal.

The mission that is guiding Canada's new government, the North Star that we follow, is building lasting economic strength for Canadian workers in their families. with economic uncertainty making it challenging for the private sector to invest, government must act. Carney says those actions include programs to retrain workers and industries hurt by tariffs, providing billions in funding to businesses while the country adjusts to a new global economic reality, and making Canada its own best customer with bi-Canadian measures. Carney also announced his government is delaying its electric vehicle mandate. The target, introduced by the Liberals under Justin Trudeau,

would have required 20% of all new vehicles sold in Canada next year to be electric. A goal that Canada's auto manufacturers said was unrealistic, given the falling demand and dropped EV mandates in the U.S. Flavio Volpe is the president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers Association. We're committed to electrification, especially the supplier end, but you have to be able to get contracts where there's volume so that you make hundreds of thousands of something so you can employ people.

Ottawa is delaying the mandate for a year and launching a review of the program to make it more cost efficient. Canada's unemployment rate is on the rise. Statistics Canada says 66,000 people lost their jobs last month, pushing the jobless rate 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. Stacan 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-skill, technical, professional and scientific services, transportation and warehousing, manufacturing. Those were the sector's hardest hit. Ontario, BC, and Alberta, that's where the job losses were constant. 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 Stadkan.

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. The unemployment rate in the U.S. has also ticked up to 4.3%, and that is the highest in nearly four years. Two Canadians are among those killed in a funicular crash that happened Wednesday in Lisbon, Portugal. Sixteen people died in the tragedy at the popular tourist attraction and 21 others were injured. André Bergeron and his wife, Blondine Doe, were on their very last day of vacation in Lisbon when they were killed in the crash. They were both restorers at the Centre de Conservation of Quebec. Bergeron had just retired and the trip was a gift to mark the occasion.

South Korea accuses U.S. immigration authorities of unjustly violating the rights of Korean nationals. More than 450 people were arrested following a massive ice raid at a Hayande electric vehicle plant in Georgia. Many of those detained are South Korean. The Department of Homeland Security alleges they were working illegally using temporary visas for tourism and business travel. Stephen Shrank is the special agent in charge. This has been a multi-month criminal investigation where we have developed evidence and presented that evidence in order to obtain a judicial search warrant. We are sending a clear and unequivocal message that those who exploit our workforce and violate federal laws will be held accountable. The Korean carmaker says none of those detained were directly employed by Hayande.

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