The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/06 at 02:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/06 at 02:00 EDT

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Certain conditions apply. from cbc news the world this hour i'm mike miles montreal canadian's legend ken dryden has died he was surrounded by family as he passed friday morning his battle with cancer over dryden was many things politician author businessman lawyer but all that was overshadowed by hockey nine years as a goalie with the habs winning six stanley cups dryden talked about his time on the ice in a 2022 interview with the nationals Ian Hanna Mansing, marking the 50th anniversary of the summit series with the Soviet Union. I think it's my most vivid memory of that entire series was the Canadian fans in Moscow. Not a lot of Canadians had traveled to Europe in 1972.

And here are 3,000 Canadians that were there. And they're singing their lungs out. I mean, it was so moving, you know, that. And it mattered. And it mattered. I mean, it was just the whole thing. So much. After leaving the Canadians, Dryden was a commentator during the 1980, 84, and 88 Winter Olympics. Later, he was an executive with the Toronto Maple Leafs, resigning in 2004 to enter politics,

becoming cabinet minister under Paul Martin, then making a bid to become his successor. Dredden also wrote several books and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1983. His Habs number, 29, was retired in 2007. Cadden Dryden was 78 years old. Prime Minister Mark Kearney's unveiled his government's plan to rescue the Canadian economy. To fortify our economic strength, my colleagues and I are announcing a series of ambitious new measures to protect, build, and transform our strategic industries. These are the sectors where workers and businesses have been impacted by those tariffs and trade disruptions.

The measures being rolled out include a $5 billion strategic fund to help companies, companies and sectors hit hardest by U.S. tariffs, a retraining and employment program to help up to 50,000 workers, and a multi-million dollar production incentive for Canada's canola producers affected by Chinese tariffs. Carney says Ottawa will roll out a bi-Canadian initiative. To support Canadian industries, the government's introducing a new comprehensive bi-Canadian policy that will move from best efforts to buy-Canadian to a clear obligation to do. so. As well, Ottawa will help businesses trying to access new markets overseas. Spending its wheels in these economic woods is Canada's auto industry, its workers, some of the hardest hit by U.S. tariffs. Carney Friday also offered that sector some help by putting the brakes on a sales mandate for electric vehicles. David Thurton with the details and the reaction. On the move,

electric vehicle enthusiast Raymond Lurie shares his views on Ottawa's decision to backtrack on its zero-emission sales mandate. The companies have dragged their feet, so giving them more time to drag their feet, how could that possibly speed up innovation? Prime Minister Mark Carney's announcement today is another shift away from a Trudeau-era policy, but it comes after backlash from the auto industry. They've got enough on their plate right now. So we're taking that off.

Carney, offering automakers a reprieve as they grapple with Donald Trump's tariffs, and Washington backtracks on its own policies around battery-powered. vehicles. By next year, 20% of all new passenger cars and SUV sold were supposed to be electric or hybrid. That's now on pause, while Ottawa reviews the mandate. Along with carbon pricing, this is the second federal climate policy Carney has weakened. David Thurton, CBC News, Ottawa. Donald Trump has signed an executive order renaming the U.S. Department of Defense, the Department of War. This is a very important change because it's an attitude Trump says that rebrand will remind people of past U.S. military victories and sends a signal about the nation's shifting foreign policy.

The Department of Defense had previously been called the War Department in Toll and overhaul in 1949. Critics call the rebrand costly, arguing it distracts from concrete policy decisions, and within hours of that order being signed, the nameplates were already being changed as well as the website. That is your world this hour for CBC News. I'm Mike Miles. Thank you.