The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/06 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/06 at 12:00 EDT

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The debater's 20th anniversary season, comedy, worth arguing about. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Claude Fag. Hall of Fame goaltender Ken Dryden has passed away from cancer at the age of 78. Dryden won multiple Stanley Cup, starred in the Summit series with the former Soviet Union

and was also an NHL executive as well as an acclaimed author and federal politician. People have talked about his strength, but his gentleness. Ken Dryden was an absolute gentle giant in so many fields. That's Canada's High Commissioner to the UK, Ralph Goodale, paying tribute to his former parliamentary colleague. Dryden was a force in Canadian society in and out of the hockey rink. Dryden was the star goalie for the Montreal Canadiens during the 1970s,

a decade that the team dominated winning six Stanley Cups. The Canadians announced this morning Dryden had died with his family. at his side. 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 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. 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 Volaitis reports, it appears the U.S. President is concerned about the two nations' 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 Volaitis 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. They are among the nearly 500 detained for allegedly working illegally. Immigration officials say they had violated their visitors' visa. 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. week.