The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/04 at 02:00 EST

Episode Date: November 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/04 at 02:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. We begin with breaking political news. Currie Dixon will be the next premier of Yukon. Tonight, his conservative-leaning Yukon party has won a majority government. CBC News projects he'll have 14 of the 21 seats in the Yukon Legislative Assembly. Tonight, Yukoners chose to move on from the status quo. They chose a new path. They chose change.

Yukoners chose a strong majority Yukon Party government. And for all the results from the Yukon election, click on our website, cbcnews.ca. Prime Minister Mark Carney will unveil his first federal budget on Tuesday. It will include a mix of cuts and spending. The liberal government has promised to rearm Canada's military. But as Murray Brewster reports, some defense experts say so far, the

Carney government has made a lot of vague promises. I think what we'll be doing in the budget is laying track to meet the 5% target by 2035. Defense Minister David McGinty, trying to temper expectations about what the Defense Department and Canadians will see the liberal government committed to meeting NATO's 2% of GDP target just in time for the military alliance to boost it to 5%. There have been a number of expensive promises and plans floated around, including replacing the Navy submarines. Vice Admiral Angus Topshi, the commander of the Navy, suggests we won't see the full price tag for that today. At this point, we're still working to refine the cost. Defense expert Dave Perry says the military has a number of equipment plans that the Liberals have

talked about for years, but never put any money behind. He's hoping to see specifics, not promises. Presenting a forecast of how spending will increase over time. The big influx of money presents a problem for D&D. It has in the past had trouble spending its entire appropriation. Murray Brewster, CBC News, Ottawa. CBC Radio will broadcast special coverage of the federal budget. It all begins Tuesday at 4 p.m. Eastern on CBC Radio 1 and the CBC Listen app. Canada is pushing back on a decision by the automaker Stalantis to move jobs to the U.S.

The government says it's starting a process to try to get some taxpayer money back and save jobs. Samantha Craggs has more. If you make promises and then walk away, you will be held accountable. That's Melanie Jolie, Canada's industry minister. Jolie says Ottawa is starting a dispute resolution process to get back some of the money it's pledged to Stalantis. This all started last month. That's when the automaker said it would move production of the Jeep Compass to Illinois. The compass was supposed to be built in Brampton, a plant where thousands of workers are laid off.

Jolie says that move violates contracts that Stalantus signed to get government money. Both Ottawa and Ontario pledged money to help Stalantus retool plants in Brampton and Windsor and $15 billion to build an EV plant in Windsor. Stalantis, meanwhile, says the Brampton plant is only paused and no jobs have been lost. It also says it'll keep working with Ottawa to make. make sure the Canadian auto production sector is sustainable. Samantha Craig, CBC News, Windsor. Voters in New York City will cast ballots on Tuesday for their next mayor.

Zonman Dani is the frontrunner. He's a 34-year-old Muslim immigrant who calls himself a Democratic socialist, and he's trying to fend off criticism from his rival and the President of the United States. Donald Trump just put out a statement encouraging New Yorkers saying they must vote. for Andrew Cuomo. We know and have known for months that Donald Trump would favor Andrew Cuomo as the mayor. They share the same donors. They share the same small vision.

Andrew Cuomo was the former governor of New York State. He stepped down from that job in 2021 after several women accused him of sexual harassment. Now he's hoping for a political comeback as mayor of the Big Apple. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland.