The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/03 at 21:00 EST

Episode Date: November 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/03 at 21:00 EST

This ascent isn't for everyone. You need grit to climb this high this often. You've got to be an underdog that always over-delivers. You've got to be 6,500 hospital staff, 1,000 doctors, all doing so much with so little. You've got to be Scarborough. Defined by our uphill battle and always striving towards new heights. And you can help us keep climbing.

Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. Canadians are just one day away from finding out what's in the federal budget. The finance minister will table the budget in the House of Commons tomorrow afternoon. And Francois-Philippe Champagne says there will be something in it for all Canadians. Tom Perry has more. An old tradition with a new twist, finance minister,

Francois Philippe Champagne at his shoe factory in his Quebec riding, making himself a pair of black dress shoes to wear when he presents his budget. I would expect the opposition parties to be supportive because there is something for every Canadian in that budget. In a minority parliament, the liberals will need some opposition MPs to support their budget or at least not vote against it. Opposition leader Pierre Pauliev says he'll wait to see what's in the document. If it brings up the cost of living just like every other liberal budget, we will vote no.

One factor that could make this budget a tough sell will be the deficit, with predictions placing it between $70 billion and $100 billion. A senior government official says this budget will be aimed at building capacity and getting Canada's products and resources to the world. Canadians will soon find out what that will cost. Tom Perry, CBC News, Ottawa. The federal government wants to try to recoup funding from an automaker that pulled production out of a Canadian plant.

Last month, Stalantis said it would move its... Jeep Compass Vehicle Assembly line from Ontario to Illinois, despite its contract to invest in that plant and Canadian workers. Today, industry minister Melanie Jolie said Ottawa will ask for its money back if Stalantis doesn't commit to building another vehicle at the factory outside Toronto. It's a very backbone of the Ontario economy that is at stake. And if we don't fight for all these jobs and for the auto industry, it will have an impact, yes, on Ontario. But as a Quebecer, I very much understand that it will have an impact on the rest of the country. The Canadian government, along with Ontario, have pledged billions in subsidies to the automaker.

Our softwood sector is foundational to British Columbia. Premier David Eby says his 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 support 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. says Canada's industry is a national security threat. It's being described as a humanitarian catastrophe happening amid a brutal civil war. For the second time in less than a year, the U.N. says there is famine in parts of Sudan.

Report. Pleying the fighting, thousands of Sudanese flood the town of Tohila, pitching tents, lining up for what little aid there is. They're the lucky ones, escaping the violence in Al-Feshire, 65 kilometers down the road. Al-Fashir fell to the so-called rapid support forces, the paramilitary RSF last week. Fighters are accused of massacring tens of thousands, killing aid workers, and triggering a famine, officially declared today in Alphashir and another area by a UN-backed group monitoring global hunger. The U.S. has tried to broker a ceasefire in talks that have been largely ignored on the ground. But the help that aid groups say is desperately needed has been slow to come from the world.

For the camps, now filling fast. Sasha Petrusik, CBC News, Toronto. Voters in Yukon are casting ballots today in a territorial election. The polls close in one hour from now. After nine years of liberal government, the NDP and the Yukon Party are hoping to break through. Yukoners will also vote on whether to change the current first-past-the-post electoral system to ranked ballots. CBC News will have full coverage tonight for our radio listeners and TV viewers in Yukon. And that is your world this hour.

For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland.