The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/06 at 15:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/06 at 15:00 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.

A hockey legend has died. Hall of Fame goalie, Ken Dryden. He was a giant on and off the ice, winning six Stanley Cups and spending part of his post-hockey life on Parliament Hill. Philip Lee Shannock has more. Sticulating saved by Dryden. Many hockey fans have memories of Ken Dryden. The goalie, who played eight NHL seasons through the 1970s, helping the Montreal Canadiens to six

Stanley Cup championships. But Dryden's friend and hockey historian Dave Stubbs says he was more than a hockey star. He enjoyed the game, loved his teammates, loved the players who he played with. But that said, it really just kind of set him up for a life beyond the game. Dryden was also a lawyer, author and served as president of the Toronto Maple Leafs. And he was elected Liberal MP in the Toronto Riding of York Center. High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Ralph Goodale, served in cabinet with Dryden, who he says got the provinces to agree to a national child care program. People said it was an impossible assignment, but Ken Dryden actually got all of those agreements done.

Dryden died Friday at home, surrounded by family after a battle with cancer. He was 78 years old. Philip LeShannock, CBC News, Toronto. Voting has just wrapped up on the tentative contract between Air Canada and its flight attendants. results should be known in the next few hours. The deal included higher wages and the airline agreed to pay flight attendance for work done before and after flights. The Israeli military says it's establishing a humanitarian zone in the southern Gaza city of Han Yunus. It says displaced Palestinians who go there will receive food, shelter and medical care, while the IDF continues

to expand its attacks in Gaza City to the north. Anna Cunningham reports. have been carrying out an offensive on the suburbs of Gaza City for weeks. This was the latest strike by the Israeli military Friday. The Israeli military says it targeted a 14-story building because it was being used by Hamas. An Israeli military spokesperson says resident should now leave for a designated coastal area of Karnunas in southern Gaza. Israel says a humanitarian zone will include field hospitals, water pipelines, desalination facilities and food supplies. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's order for his country's military to intensify its offensive in Gaza City comes ahead of this month's UN General Assembly, where a number of countries, including Canada, are expected to recognise a Palestinian state. Prime Minister Mark Carney says the move depends on democratic reforms, including the Palestinian Authority, holding elections next year without Hamas.

Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London. South Korea's foreign ministers says the government is making, quote, an all-out effort to support hundreds of South Korean workers arrested in Georgia. They were working at the site of a Hayande battery plant that's under construction. Almost 500 workers, mostly South Korean nationals, were detained. The Department of Homeland Security says this was the largest single-site enforcement operation in its history. And aid workers say they are in a race.

against time to get food to Afghan earthquake survivors. A 6.2 quake devastated an area in Kunar province. Canada is giving $3 million in humanitarian assistance, much of it going to the Red Cross and the World Food Program. John Ailf is the World Food Program's country director in Afghanistan. He says some villages are still impossible to reach. We're using pickups, donkeys and human porterage to get food to the communities which have been so strong.

But at the moment, there are areas that we just haven't got access to because we don't have air support. We don't have helicopter support. We're hoping that that changes the next few days, but funding has been a constraint. Taliban officials have confirmed more than 2,200 deaths in two eastern provinces. Close to 4,000 people were injured. And that is your world this hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts. We update every hour, seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey.

Thank you.