The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/06 at 14:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/06 at 14:00 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 Kate McGilfrey.

Hall of Fame goaltender Ken Dryden has died after a short battle with cancer. Dryden won six Stanley Cubs with the Montreal Canadiens and was on team Canada for the 1972 Summit Series with the former Soviet Union. When he hung up his skates, he worked as a lawyer and an NHL executive, and later became a federal MP and cabinet minister. Canada's High Commissioner to the UK, Ralph Goodale, is paying tribute to his former parliamentary colleague. People have talked about his strength, but his gentleness.

Ken Dryden was an absolute gentle giant in so many fields. His family says Dryden died yesterday at home. He was 78 years old. Canada's temporary foreign worker program has become a hot, political topic this week. As Catherine Cullen tells us, there is debate about whether it's an economic necessity or a problem program that's driving up youth unemployment. 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. Pauliev 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.

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. That's under construction in Savannah, Georgia. U.S. immigration officials say they had violated their visitor's visas. Australia has struck a deal to banish some illegal migrants to Nauru, the third smallest country in the world. As Phil Mercer reports, critics question whether Nauru will be able to resettle them.

Remarkably, the Nauru in Parliament is getting more details than the Australian people, and it's the Australian people who are paying. Senator David Huberidge from the Australian Greens are mined. Party is angry that few details of the multi-million dollar resettlement deal with Nauru have been made public. The government has only released a brief statement. Australia has been unable to deport this group of so-called unlawful non-citizens because they're stateless or from countries that won't have them back. Two years ago a judge said it was illegal for them to be held indefinitely in immigration detention in Australia and they were released. Some have since allegedly committed

serious offences. Andrew Hastie, a conservative opposition lawmaker, supports the deal with Nauru. We want to see as many of these people removed from our community. Phil Mercer for CBC News, Sydney. And as on most weekends, the families of Israeli hostages are out, demanding that the Netanyahu government halt fighting in Gaza and negotiate the release of the hostages. Anna Kruk-Lifshitz is the daughter-in-law of Odad Liftschitz, who died while in captivity. If you launch a ground conquest of Gaza, you will be leading to the murder of the hostages. The blood of the hostages will be on your hands. The order to launch a ground conquest of Gaza is a death sentence for the hostages and will cause the fallen to be lost

forever. Israeli officials believe 20 hostages are still alive in Gaza and that Hamas is holding 28 bodies. And that is your world this hour. For news any time, you can always go to our website, cBCNews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey.