The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/01 at 09:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 1, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/01 at 09:00 EDT

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government has shut down it means millions of federal employees are no longer being paid that includes everyone from air traffic controllers and national park employees to certain members of the military and the Republicans are blaming the Democrats. John Barrasso is the Republican Senate whip. Well, the radical wing of the Democrat Party demanded that Chuck Schumer shut down the government, and he did that today. What that radical wing had told him to do was work with them through his war room. He had a war room going for the last eight weeks to orchestrate the shutdown.

But Democrat Chuck Schumer sees it differently. We see now Republicans are plunging a, America into a shutdown, rejecting bipartisan talks, pushing a partisan bill. They've got to sit down and negotiate with Democrats to come to a bill that both parties can support. The last shutdown in 2018 lasted 35 days. It led to many federal workers being forced to use food banks, and thousands of employees, who had been declared essential, began calling in six, saying they couldn't afford to pay for the gas they needed to get to work. Still in the U.S., the city of Portland is preparing to receive the National Guard.

It means that after Los Angeles and Washington, Portland is about to become the third city targeted by President Donald Trump's domestic intervention campaign. Julia Wong reports. For months, protesters have been outside an immigration and customs enforcement facility in Portland. Now, U.S. President Donald Trump is deploying troops to protect those facilities, from what he says are domestic terrorists. The president, calling the city war-ravaged. Resident Catherine Nestor spoke to CBC News along the waterfront.

I feel really bad about it. It's not needed. It's very scary as a citizen to have military deployed against us domestically. I mean, you can look around. Does this look like a war-ravaged place? It's not. Fellow resident Emily Evans finds it laughable, gesturing to people walking in the green space near the water.

There's no war anywhere. The city and state have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration hoping to halt the deployment. Boots on the ground are expected later this week. Julia Wong, CBC News, Portland. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is announcing a new energy infrastructure project today. We don't know any specifics, but for weeks now, Smith has been floating the idea of a new pipeline that would bring Alberta Bichaman to the B.C. coast. The Alberta Premier has also been hinting that a key point.

private proponent will soon be confirmed. Five provinces are increasing their minimum wage today. That's Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia and P-E-I. Ontario is at the top end moving up to $17.60. Across the country, only Nunavut and Yukon are higher. Alberta is the only province that hasn't boosted its minimum wage in recent months. It remains at $15 an hour, the lowest in the country. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky says the situation, at the Zaporica nuclear power plant is critical. Szilensky saying the plant has been disconnected from the power grid for more than seven days, and a disaster is a real possibility.

This is the longest power outage since Russia seized control of the facility in the initial weeks of its invasion in 2022. Since then, both Russia and Ukraine have accused the other of putting the plant at risk. Now to the Philippines. In the wake of yesterday's earthquake, an overwhelmed hospital is treating patients out on the street. Due to the fear of aftershocks, many are scared to go inside. At least 69 people were killed in the 6.9 magnitude quake. The epicenter was near the city of Cebu.

A number of buildings have collapsed and rescue teams are in the process of searching for survivors in the rubble. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.