The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/03 at 18:00 EST

Episode Date: November 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/03 at 18:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. bro.ca. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. The Federal Finance Minister says there will be no surprises in Tuesday's budget. Francois Philippe Champagne, L, also insists there will be something for every political party to like. But there is no guarantee the opposition parties will support it. Karina Roman has more from Ottawa. This is going to be a great moment for the nation.

Francois Philippe Champagne was at Boulet Boots in Saint-Tit, Quebec, continuing the tradition of the finance minister getting a new pair of shoes before the budget. The family-owned business is famous for its cowboy boots, but Champagne is choosing traditional black lace-ups, the same type of shoes that RCMP officers wear. Champagne's choice is emblematic of the message the government wants to send with the budget, empowering and protecting Canadians while building the country from the inside out. There will be no surprises. Canadians have asked us to do big, bold things. But at a cost, estimates put the deficit at anywhere between 70 and 100 billion, and cuts of up to 15% in some government departments. Karina Roman, CBC News, Ottawa. Our softwood sector is foundational to British Columbia.

Premier David Eby says the province and the federal government are working to help tens of thousands of affected workers. That includes the creation of a task force to generate supports for the sector. U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs hitting the forestry industry exceed more than 50% in some cases. British Columbia is the second largest exporter of softwood lumber in the world, second only to Russia. The U.S. claims Canada's industry is a national security threat. RCMP in southern Manitoba are investigating a violent Halloween display on a rural property, which has now been taken down.

It depicted local politicians hanging from gallows and a sign which said politics, all tricks, no treats. Karen Pauls has a story. The display has five life-sized human figures hanging from homemade gallows, including the local mayor, council members, and the fire chief. Tashay Mayor Armand Porreier says he's looking at how to protect staff. What type of safety issues are they going to be faced with in the future?

We have to be ready for this. Ivan Normando heads the Association of Manitoba Bilingual Municipalities. As an elected official, I'm just deserving to see when people are intimidating and going after you personally, and it was so visible. The homeowner declined to be interviewed. In social media posts, he says he's a, quote, peaceful sovereign, who is frustrated with the municipality, but that it was a theatrical display for Halloween.

Manitoba Premier Wab Canoe says people need to find more civil ways to express their concerns. matter how fired up you are about politics or policy, we've got to keep it respectful. The RCMP are investigating. Karen Paul's CBC News, Winnipeg. The world's leading hunger monitor has declared a famine in two areas of Sudan. That includes the city of Alfasher, which fell to paramilitary forces last month. Aid groups are warning of massacres of civilians in recent days. Ida El-Syad is head of the Sudanese Red Crescent Society, She says tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people, are fleeing into rural areas without support. The fear of that, that these people, because most of the state is desert.

So if they flee away for the way of the desert, they will die from hunger and surresteed. Since April 2023, the RSF has fought against the Sudanese armed forces. Some 14 million people have been displaced due to the conflict. In northern Afghanistan. People dig through the rubble of a damaged building. The region was hit overnight by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake. At least 20 people are dead in the city of Mazar-E Sharif. Hundreds more were injured.

Afghanistan sits on two active fault lines and is vulnerable to earthquakes. In August, another major quake with strong aftershocks left more than 2,000 people dead. And that's the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Gene. Louise Phillips.