The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/05 at 15:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 5, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/05 at 15:00 EDT

My group chat thinks I'm the smart one, but I have a cheat code. I take 10 minutes each morning and listen to World Report. Knowing what's happening in the world helps me feel connected and make better informed decisions. But endless doom scrolling is not my idea of fun. So I just listen to World Report on my commute, get informed, and get on with my day. World Report, the day's top stories in 10 minutes, 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 and 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, and making Canada its own best customer with bi-Canadian measures. Mark Carney has also announced a pause on the

implementation of the federal electric vehicle mandate, something Canadian automakers have been asking for. David Thurton has more. They've got enough on their plate right now. So we're taking that off. Prime Minister Mark Carney offering automakers a reprieve on the EV mandate as the sector scrambles to adapt to Donald Trump's tariffs. So to add flexibility to the automotive sector, we will remove the 2026 electric vehicle availability standard.

By next year, 20% of all new passenger cars and SUVs were supposed to be electric or hybrid. That's now on pause, while Ottawa launches a six. 60-day review. Keith Brooks, with environmental defense, is disappointed. Yeah, I mean, we're worried. We don't really know what the extent of the review was going to be. And to be honest, we don't have a clear indication of the extent to which this government, under Prime Minister Mark Carney, remains committed to fighting climate change. Along with carbon pricing, this is the second federal climate policy Carney has changed.

David Thurton, CBC News, Ottawa. Canada's unemployment rate is on the rise. It is not. now reached 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. Stackhand says now 1.6 million Canadians were unemployed in August. And if you look into the specific, 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 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 Stadkan. And that's good, but clearly not enough to offer. offset this wave of lousy jobs data right across the economy. Peter Armstrong, CBC News, Toronto.

Two Quebecers are among those killed in a fornicular crash that happened on Wednesday in Lisbon, Portugal. Sixteen people died in the tragedy at the popular tourist attraction and 21 others were injured. André Bergeron and his French wife, Blondein Doe, were on their very last day of vacation in Lisbon when they were killed in the crash. There were both restorers at the Centre de Conservation to Quebec. Canadian who died has yet to be identified. And a Canadian tennis player and her New Zealand partner have won women's doubles at the U.S. Open. It's out. And they've done it.

That's the moment. Gabriela de Browski and Aaron Routliff secured their victory. Dabrowski is an Ottawa native. Routliff is a dual citizen who represents New Zealand. The pair ranked third but took down the top-seeded team. which included star American player Taylor Townsend. This is their second career U.S. Open Women's Doubles title and Dubrowski's first major victory since undergoing treatment for breast cancer.

And that is your world this hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts. We update every hour, seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey.