The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/06 at 17:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/06 at 17:00 EDT

Hi, everybody. I'm J.B. Poisson and I host Frontburner. It's Canada's most listened to Daily News podcast. Just the other day, we were in a story meeting talking about how we can barely keep up with what's going on in Canada and the world right now. And like, it's our job to do that. So if you are looking for a one-stop shop for the most important and interesting news stories of the day, we've got you. Stop doom scrolling. Follow Frontburner instead. I'm Kate McGilfrey. Air Canada flight attendants have overwhelmingly rejected the latest tentative deal with their employer. The union representing the workers says 99% of members voted against it. There will not be a new strike, with both sides agreeing in advance there would be no labor disruptions. Air Canada and the Canadian Union of public employees also previously agreed that if this agreement wasn't ratified, wage issues would go to mediation and then to arbitration if necessary. More than 10,000 flight attendants went on a three-day strike last month, defying a federal order to return to work.

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 Leeshanock has more. 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 Dr. 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 Lyshanock, CBC News, Toronto. 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, some of it going to the World Food Programme. John Aleph is the World Food Program's country director in Afghanistan. He says some villages are still impossible to reach. We're using pick-ups, donkeys and human porterage to get food to the communities, which have been so stricken.

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. U.S. federal agents conducted a massive immigration raid on a Hyundai battery plant in Georgia, the latest in a long list of workplace raids under the Trump administration. Steve Futterman has more. Hundreds were taken into custody as armed officers suddenly descended on the Hyundai electric vehicle battery plant

near Savannah, Georgia. We're Homeland Security. for the whole site. We need construction to cease immediately. Nearly 500 people were detained, most of them South Korean nationals. Stephen Schrank is with the Georgia Homeland Security Office. This, in fact, was the largest single-site enforcement operation in the history of Homeland Security investigations. Hyundai says those arrested did not work directly for the company, but rather for subcontractors used by Hyundai. U.S. officials say those detained were either in the country illegally, or working unlawfully, some of those detained were released.

In a carefully worded statement, South Korea's foreign ministry says the rights and interests of Korean citizens must not be infringed. Steve Futterman for CBC News, Los Angeles. And in India. Rescue workers use boats to look for those still trapped by severe flooding in Punjab province. In some areas, houses are fully submerged and 170, 35,000 acres of farmland is now underwater. In neighboring Pakistan's Punjab, almost 2 million people have been forced out of their homes in recent weeks.

And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey.