The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/06 at 08:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/06 at 08:00 EDT

Okay, listen, fall is my favorite season, and the biggest reason for that is it means TIF is year. My name is Alameen Abdu Mahmood, and I host a show called Commotion. Normally, we get into the biggest pop culture stories, and we do that in about 25 minutes or so. But during TIF, we do it in half the time. Listen to Tiff and 12 in our podcast feed every weekday during the Toronto International Film Festival, so you can keep up to date without having to watch four movies in a day. Find and follow Commotion wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour.

I'm Claude Fagg. 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. Very few behind the Iron Curtain, very few to Moscow. That is Ken Dryden speaking to the CBC's Ian Hannah Mansing in 2022 about the historic summit hockey series. He played for Canada in that storied series against the Soviet Union.

Dryden has passed away at the age of 78. The Montreal Canadiens announced his death early this morning. Dryden also backstopped the Canadians to six Stanley Cups in the 1970s. He would go on to write several books, work as a hockey executive with the Toronto Maple Leafs. And Dryden also served as York Center MP for nearly seven years and as Minister for Social Development under Prime Minister Paul Martin. Canada's temporary foreign worker program has become a hot political topic this week. There are questions about how it's affecting the job market, particularly for young people,

and debates about whether it's an economic necessity or a problem program that needs to be scrapped. Host of CBC Radio's The House, Catherine Cullen, has more. The Liberals have to answer, why is it that they're shutting our own youth out of jobs and replacing them with low-wage temporary foreign workers. Conservative leader Pierre Pahliav says he's not blaming temporary foreign workers, but he accuses companies who hire them of taking jobs away from Canadians. Polyev wants the liberals to scrap the program with an exception for agricultural workers. The lobby group that represents Canadian restaurant owners says it needs those workers

that they take jobs Canadians aren't applying for. Kelly Higginson of Restaurants Canada says many of the positions, are in communities where there simply aren't a lot of available workers. We're talking about a critical component to the rural and non-large urban centers in our country and how they're able to offer services. The Prime Minister says he's reviewing the temporary foreign worker program, but won't scrap it. Catherine Cullen, CBC News, Ottawa. And you can hear more on this issue with Catherine on the House right after the 9 o'clock edition of World Report, 930,

Newfoundland. Ottawa is beginning to roll out sectoral supports hardest hit by the Donald Trump tariffs. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced billions of dollars of funding to help businesses deal with the impact of the tariffs. David Thurton reports. At an aviation plant in Mississauga, Mark Carney jokes with workers wearing hearing protection. You can put the ear plugs in when I start speaking. With Canada's unemployment rate, the highest in almost a decade, outside the pandemic. pandemic, Carney didn't have trouble finding an attentive audience. The government's introducing a new comprehensive buy Canadian policy that will move

from best efforts to a clear obligation to do so. The Prime Minister committed to introduce a new policy to buy Canadian steel, aluminum, and other materials, a move long overdue according to Keenan Loomis with the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction. But he wants to see more details from Carney's plan. does that then flow out through the rest of the country into the provincial jurisdictions? Kearney says he hopes others will follow the federal government's lead, hoping his by-Canadian policy offers a roadmap for others. David Thurton, CBC News, Ono-Wa.

South Korea is reacting to the arrest of hundreds of its citizens in the U.S. A foreign ministry spokesperson says Seoul will do all it can to support its nationals. more than 300 South Koreans were arrested Friday at a Hyundai car battery factory in Savannah, Georgia. Immigration officials say they had violated their visitors' visas. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says that this was the largest single-site enforcement operation in its history. And that is your world this hour. You can listen to us any time on voice-activated devices. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fagg.

Thank you.