The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/06 at 10:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/06 at 10:00 EDT

Hey, it's Gavin from Because News. This week on the news quiz, Scott Thompson is here. I've known him for a long time. He always makes me laugh. And he always has something surprising to say about American politics. And it's never what I think he's going to say. Also, we'll talk about vicious compliance from the Ebbington School Board and double dating. Also, we've got Brandon Ash Muhammad and Jan Karwana who are going to try to get a word in edgewise. That's all coming up on this week's Because News. Get it wherever you get your podcasts, which is presumably here. 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's 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.

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 debate 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? 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 last. the local nine o'clock edition of World Report. U.S. President Donald Trump is backtracking on recent comments he made about India and Russia. On Friday, he mused that the two nations were, quote, lost to deepest, darkest China, only to soften his words later in the day. But as Dominic Volitus reports, it appears that the U.S. president is concerned about the two

nation's growing relationship. U.S. President Donald Trump is unhappy with the photograph which emerged from this week's Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit. It shows a powerful display of friendship between China's President Xi Jinping, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russia's Vladimir Putin, an image of a possible new multipolar global order less dominated by the United States. Analysts believe his comments underscore fears in Washington about China's expanding influence in the world, A relationship fueled experts say by Trump's tariffs and hostile rhetoric towards key partners like India. But last night, Trump rolled back on his comments regarding India, telling reporters that although

he was disappointed it had been buying oil from Russia, he didn't believe the U.S. had lost the country to China after all. Dominic Volitus for CBC News, Bristol, England. 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 on 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 this was the largest single-site enforcement operation in its history. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Faye.