The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/02 at 21:00 EST

Episode Date: November 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/02 at 21:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. Prime Minister Mark Carney faces a tough political test this week. He'll table his government's first budget on Tuesday. But because he has minority government, he needs some opposition support to get it passed. And if that doesn't happen, it could mean a snap election. J.P. Tasker has more. Our budget will respond head on. to the challenges of our time. Prime Minister Mark Carney is promising what he calls generational investments.

Tuesday's federal budget is expected to include more money for the military, housing, and workers affected by U.S. tariffs, but also cuts to rein in spending that ballooned under Carney's predecessor. This budget presents a politically perilous moment for the minority liberal government. If the opposition votes it down, Canadians could be headed back to the polls before Christmas. Conservative leader Pierre Pauliev has made a series, series of demands in exchange for his party's support. We want an affordable budget that will give Canadians affordable life before Christmas.

Meanwhile, the Black Quebecois has demands of its own. The separatist MPs are voting no if they don't get what they want. That leaves the NDP to solve this political puzzle. The small seven-member caucus hasn't decided what it will do. The Liberals need just three opposition votes to get the budget through. J.P. Tasker, CBC News, Ottawa. Voters cast their ballots across Quebec today in municipal elections and the results are now being counted. CBC News projects that Bruno Marchant has been re-elected mayor of Quebec City.

Catherine Furnier re-elected mayor of Langell, and Stefan Boyer re-elected as the mayor of Lovale. In Montreal, there are more than 420 candidates running for dozens of positions, including for mayor. Sarah Levitt looks at some of the issues that dominated the campaign. been a fiery campaign in the fight to become the new mayor of Montreal. Valerie Plant had been at the helm for the past eight years but decided she wasn't coming back. Her successor as head of the party, Projean-Morraine, Luke Rabouin, has been a mayor of a Montreal borough since 2019.

Facing him, though, a formidable opponent. Ensemble Moriaz, Soraya Martinez, Farada. She was until February this year, a lot of. Liberal Member of Parliament in Ottawa on the number one campaign issue, affordability of housing, Rabouin says, We need a bylaw to make sure that not-for-profit affordable housing is mandatory. Martinez Ferrada, on the other hand, says private developers will just decide not to build if such a bylaw existed. Instead, if you partner with a nonprofit and you offer social housing in the construction of your project,

you can have free permits, you can have fiscal incentives. Sarah Levitt's CBC News, Montreal. election results in Quebec, you can visit our website, cbc.ca.ca slash Montreal. The Red Cross has handed over the apparent remains of three Israeli hostages to Israel. Under the current ceasefire agreement, Hamas must return the bodies of all hostages who died in captivity. But the Palestinian militant group says it's having trouble locating them under the rubble. The Red Cross has brought in excavating machines to help locate remains in Gaza. If the bodies are confirmed to be those of Israeli hostages, that would bring the total number of bodies recovered to 20.

The annual average temperature in Canada is increasing at roughly twice the global rate. More and more Canadians are seeing the impact of climate change. In northeastern BC, residents are worried about the impact of another dry, winter. Haley Basset lives on a farm near Dawson Creek. The ground is utterly parked. Even when it does rain, the water just disappears immediately. This week, the city of Dawson Creek applied to extend a local state of emergency. Officials worry the river that provides the city's only source of drinking water is at risk of freezing completely solid this winter. And that is your world this hour. For news anytime, you can visit our website. We're at CBCNews.com.

I'm Neil Hurland.