The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/30 at 09:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 30, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/30 at 09:00 EDT

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From CBC News, The World This Hour. I'm Pat Philpott. The U.S. government is hurtling towards its first shutdown in six years. There's no sign congressional leaders are anywhere near the budget agreement needed to keep funds flowing. Here's Willie Lowry in Washington. Democrats led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schultz. Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries met with President Donald Trump in the White House for the first time since he took office last year.

The Democrats are pushing for health care changes. They fear that health care costs for Americans will go up because of a spending bill passed in July. Schumer said the president appeared to hear their concerns. I think for the first time the president heard our objections and heard why we needed a bipartisan bill. their bill has not one iota of democratic input. Essential services like hospital care, law enforcement, and air traffic control will continue, but a significant number of services will stop. Republicans who hold 53 seats in the Senate need 60 votes to pass a funding extension

that would keep the government running through October. If they don't find them, the government shuts down when the clock strikes midnight. Willie Lowry, CBC News, Washington. Rescuers in Indonesia are racing to pull dozens of students and workers from under the rubble of a school building that collapsed in East Java. Three students have been killed, dozens more injured. A man weeps as he explains his nephew is among the 38 missing students. The building was under renovation when it collapsed.

Here at home, Alberta's teachers are poised to walk off the job after rejecting the province's latest contract offer, class could be canceled for more than 700,000 students as early as next week. Liam Newbegging has more. Teachers will be on strike on October 6th. Jason Schilling, president of the Alberta Teachers Association, says the deal failed to change teachers' minds.

Of more than 43,000 votes, nearly 90% said no. The government previously offered a wage increase of 12% over four years. New to this deal, Commitments to hire more teachers and assistance. It's just not enough for what we're seeing in our classrooms. Shelling calls it a drop in the bucket, saying the job is complex. Teachers have to deal with special needs students and others with health challenges. Janelle Melanchuk, a teacher from Red Deer, says after 21 years on the job,

the strike feels necessary. It's the last straw. Enough is enough. We can't keep going on this way. It's not fair to the kids. From kindergarten to grade 12, 700,000 students could be staying home from school. Alberta Premier Daniel Smith called the contract rejection a disappointment. Liam Newbigink, CBC News, Edmonton. Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. In part, it's about honoring

indigenous survivors of Canada's colonial residential school system. The CBC, Sarah Law, brings us the story of one family from a First Nation in northern Ontario and their quest to re- bury their relatives remains 79 years after he was taken from his community. Claire Onabagan spent years fighting to repatriate her late Uncle Percy's remains. At eight years old, he was taken from Long Lake 58 First Nation and put into St. Joseph's Indian residential school in Thunder Bay. From there, he was sent to several different institutions because he was epileptic and

partially paralyzed. Claire Onabigan says this all happened without his family's consent. The pain, the sadness. and the loneliness that Percy went through is all real. At 27, Percy died of tuberculosis. He was buried in Woodstock, Ontario in 1966, some 1,200 kilometers from home. This spring, his family exhumed his remains so he could be reburied with his siblings. The Ontario government helped pay for Percy's reburial after the federal government denied the family funding.

Sarah Law, CBC News, Long Lake 58 First Nation, Ontario. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Pet Fulpot. From CBC to...