The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/30 at 10:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 30, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/30 at 10:00 EDT

Did you know that it was once illegal to shop on Sundays? That's true for when I was born. I remember this, and I'm not that old. I'm not, okay? Leave me alone. Anyway, I'm Phelan Johnson, and I host See You in Court, a new podcast about the cases that changed Canada and the ordinary people who drove that change. From the drugstore owner who defied the Lord's Day, to the migma man who defended his treaty right to fish, to the gay teacher who got fired and fought back. Find and follow, see you in court, wherever you get your. your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Pep Philpott.

U.S. President Donald Trump says Hamas is facing a short timeline to respond to his Gaza peace proposal. We're going to do about three or four days. We'll see how it is. All of the Arab countries are signed up. The Muslim countries all signed up. Israel's all signed up. We're just waiting for Hamas.

Hamas is either going to be doing it or not, and if it's not, it's going to be a very sad end. Hamas is currently reviewing the 20-point plan, which was announced by Trump yesterday, following a three-hour White House meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu. The proposal has the backing of the Israeli Prime Minister, along with the number of Arab and Muslim nations and European ones as well. Prime Minister Mark Carney is also endorsing the plan. Well, unless there's a last-minute breakthrough in the standoff between Republicans and Democrats, It appears the U.S. is on its way to a government shutdown at midnight tonight.

Steve Futterman has more. Democrats and Republicans are already pointing the finger at each other. Vice President J.D. Vance is blaming the Democrats. I think we're headed to a shutdown because the Democrats won't do the right thing. Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer says it's the Republicans' fault. It's up to the Republicans whether they want to shut down or not. Schumer met with Donald Trump yesterday at the White House to see if they could reach a compromise. he left with very little hope. House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffrey says his side is willing to compromise.

We've made clear that we are willing to find a bipartisan path forward, but it has to meet the needs of the American people. The key sticking point appears to be health care funding. Democrats want to roll back some of the Trump cuts to health care programs. A shutdown would halt a number of things. National parks would be closed. Food inspections would be stopped. Essential services, though, including the military, would continue to operate. Steve Fetterman, CBC News, Los Angeles. Hundreds of thousands of workers in more than 30 African nations are in limbo as a vital trade deal with the U.S. expires today. For 25 years, the African Growth and Opportunity Act, or Agoa, has allowed duty-fee products to enter the United States. The deal was an initiative of the Clinton administration as it shifted its African policy from AGOA.

to trade. African leaders have been lobbying Washington intensely, but it appears the Trump administration has no plan to extend the pact. Madagascar's president has dissolved his own government following days of protests by young demonstrators. Police fire tear gas into a crowd in the capital city. The so-called Gen Z protest began last Thursday over longstanding water and power cuts. 22 people have been killed. and 100 others injured in the crackdown by security forces. In Nepal, a similar Gen Zad protest forced the resignation of the government earlier this month. Here at home, as Canadians observe the 5th National Day for Truth and Reconciliation,

one residential school survivor in Saskatchewan is reclaiming her culture through dance. The CBC's Louise Big Eagle has her story. Starless Starblankin has been wanting to dance powwow since she was five years old. For the 55-year-old grandmother, that was taken away when she went to the Kupel Indian Residential School at the age of seven. As she got older, she was working on healing, so she may one day dance in the powwow circle. But all that changed in 2023 when she had to have surgery. My spine developed a curvature.

My left knee absorbed the brunt of these injuries. It needed to be completely replaced. With her son, she found the strength to walk in. again. Star Blanket decided it was time to be the traditional dancer she wanted to be. I think it's very much a big part of the healing journey. Earlier this month, the residential school survivor danced traditional for the first time at the Treaty 4 Celebration Powwow and Forkapal. And I reclaimed that.

Louise Big Eagle, CBC News, Star Blanket, Cree Nation. And that's your world this hour. I'm Pep Philpott. Thank you.