The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/06 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/06 at 16:00 EDT

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The debater's 20th anniversary season, comedy, worth arguing about. From CBC News, The World This Hour. I'm Kate McGilfrey. The union representing Air Canada flight attendants says its members have rejected a tentative contract. 99% voted against this deal. The Canadian Union of Public Employees

had previously said most of the terms would still form the basis for a collective agreement, but issues surrounding wages, including pay for work done before and after flights, would be sent to arbitration. More than 10,000 flight attendants went on a three-day strike last month, defying a federal order to return to work. The hockey world has lost one of its greats.

Former Montreal-Canadian's goaltender, Ken Dryden, has died after a short battle with cancer. Dryden won six Stanley Cups with the Habs in their 1970s heyday and was one of the goalies on Team Canada during the 1972 Summit Series with the Soviet Union. Soviet teams thrusting up. Here's a shot. Block.

Another try, the shot goes wide. Dryden retired from hockey early and went on to work as a lawyer and NHL executive. He then entered politics, becoming an MP and a cabinet minister in the Paul Martin government. Political reporter Steve Paken was a friend. Parliament, cabinet, the fact that we got our first ever national child care policy because he was the social development minister that got it through. I mean, look at all the different ways in which this guy contributed to our world, and it's a so much better world than it might otherwise have been.

Because of him. Ken Dryden was 78 years old. Hundreds of people who evacuated from Wattie in the Northwest Territories can head back home today. As Yasmin Renea reports, officials say a nearby wildfire is no longer threatening the community. The highway to Wati opened Saturday morning, allowing residents to return. A wildfire forced them to leave just over a week ago. Essential workers went back yesterday to restore critical services and infrastructure. and officials say no structures were lost.

Heavy smoke still blankets the community, but crews successfully conducted a backburn earlier this week, getting rid of fuel ahead of the fire and reducing the risk to the community and its residents. A welcome center has been set up in Wattie to provide residents' cultural supports. Meanwhile, hundreds of people forced to flee their homes in Fort Providence on August 31st still don't know when they'll be able to return. That wildfire is burning less than a kilometer from the hamlet.

and the community of Jean-Marie River is currently on evacuation alert. Yasmin Ganea, CBC News, Wattie, Northwest Territories. And the Long Lake Fire, burning in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley, is still classified as out of control. It's not grown much in the last 24 hours, but high winds expected today could affect how the fire moves. In London, about 150 protesters have been arrested at a rally supporting a banned pro-Palestinian group.

Demonstrators shouted as police arrested people. Palestinian action was banned in July under UK anti-terrorism laws after members broke into an Air Force base and damaged two military planes. And for the first time in a Roman Catholic holy Jubilee year, a pilgrimage by 2SLGBQ Plus Catholics was listed on the Vatican's official calendar. As Megan Williams reports, the group walked through the holy door at St. Peter's Basilica. today. Wearing white t-shirts with a big rainbow hard on the front, a long procession of 2S-LGB-Q plus Catholics, friends, and family members filed into St. Peter's Basilica as part of

the Holy Jubilee year. I hope the church continues to be open like today, for everyone, said this pilgrim. The Vatican's official recognition of the pilgrim group comes the same week Pope Leo met privately with a prominent U.S. priest who ministers to gay Catholics, after he said Leo showed the same openness as Pope Francis. Francis, who died in April, issued a decree in 2023, allowing priests to bless same-sex couples. Though the church still insists marriage is only between a man and a woman. Arch-conservative Catholics have denounced the decision to list the pilgrimage. Megan Williams, CBC News, Rome. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilford.

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