The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/06 at 19:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/06 at 19:00 EDT

Okay, listen, fall is my favorite season, and the biggest reason for that is it means TIF is year. My name is Alameen Abdu Mahmood, and I host a show called Commotion. Normally, we get into the biggest pop culture stories, and we do that in about 25 minutes or so. But during TIF, we do it in half the time. Listen to Tiff and 12 in our podcast feed every weekday during the Toronto International Film Festival, so you can keep up to date without having to watch four movies in a day. Find and follow Commotion wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour.

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, that there won't 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 had also agreed that if the agreement wasn't ratified, wage issues would go to mediation, and then to arbitration if needed.

More than 10,000 flight attendants went on a three-day strike last month, defying a federal order to return to work. South Korean officials are vowing to support hundreds of their citizens detained by American immigration authorities. The workers were arrested at the Hyundai Battery Facility in Georgia, less than two weeks after the automaker pledged to invest $26 billion U.S. dollars in American plants.

Chris Reyes has more. At Hyundai's car plant in Georgia near Savannah, Korean nationals were loaded into buses by U.S. immigration officers on Thursday. The raid? The largest operation on a single site, according to Stephen Shrank, U.S. homeland investigations. 475 were illegally present in the United States or in violation of their presence in the United States. Seoul responded earlier yesterday. Foreign Minister Cho Hyun urged. the U.S. not to unjustly infringe on the rights of South Korean nationals and investors.

On the arrests, President Donald Trump said the Immigration Agency was conducting business. They were illegal aliens. I was just doing its job. The carmaker also issued a statement, Hyundai promising to investigate the matter. Chris Reyes, CBC News, New York. A preliminary statement on this week's funicular crash in Lisbon says that a critical cable snapped immediately before the deadly derailment. Portuguese authorities say that that cable connected the two carriages, which counterbalance each other on the sloped street.

Sixteen people were killed in this crash, including two Canadians. The investigators say they'll release a full preliminary report in 45 days. Aid workers say they're in a race against time to get food to Afghan earthquake survivors. A 6.2 quake devastated an area in Kunar province. John Aleph 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 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. And his career on the ice was remarkable, a Hall of Famer with six Stanley Cups under his goalie pads. But Ken Dryden's life after hockey was just as impressive. Dryden died of cancer on Friday at age 78.

Philip LeShannock looks at his long and storied career. And a signaling slave by Dryden. Ask any hockey fan and many will have memories of Ken Dryden, the goalie, who played eight NHL seasons propelling the Montreal Canadiens to see. six Stanley Cup championships. Then there's a 1972 summit series with Dryden and Net for Team Canada against the Soviet Union Red Army team. And Dryden came up for the dazzling stage. Dryden's friend and hockey historian Dave Stubbs says he was so much more than a hockey star. Hockey was an important part of his life, but it was just part of his life.

Dryden earned a law degree from McGill University while playing hockey, practice law and authored books, elected as a liberal MP in the Toronto Riding. of York Central, he served as the Minister of Social Development. High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Ralph Goodale, served 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 got all of those agreements done. Philip LeShannock, CBC News, Toronto. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey.

Thank you.