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

Episode Date: November 4, 2025

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

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. Prime Minister Mark Carney will unveil his first federal budget today. 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 today. 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 costs. 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. And CBC Radio will broadcast special coverage of the federal budget today. It all begins at 4 p.m. Eastern on CBC Radio 1 and on the CBC Listen app. The British government is preparing its budget. It will be tabled in late November. Today the British finance minister tried to reassure the public amid reports that she'll raise taxes despite an earlier promise not to. The Yukon party has surged back to power after nine years in opposition. Last night's territorial election

saw the conservative-leaning party win a comfortable majority. As Nancy Thompson reports, the ruling liberal party imploded as voters demanded change. They chose a new path. They chose change. Yukoners chose a strong majority

Yukon Party government. 40-year-old Curry Dixon will be the first Yukon Premier to have been born in the territory. The Yukon Party ran on a mantra of change and voters here agreed. UConners have told us that they want to see this change, and the good news is that change is here. Dixon told the party faithful he'd use his solid majority to deal with the housing and health care crisis in the territory,

and he promised the right-leaning U-COM party would wean off its over-reliance on government spending. And they've told us that we need to get our economy back on track to put growth of the private sector at the forefront of our agenda. The UConn NPP doubled its seat counts to six. Liberal Premier Mike Pemberton in office for just five months lost his riding in a massive defeat, a clear repudiation of the liberal brand. Nancy Thompson, CBC News, Whitehorse. UConnor's also voted in favor of election reform.

A ballot question asked whether voters wanted to change from the current first-passed the post system to a ranked ballot system. 56% said yes. The results are non-binding on the next government, and the premier designate says he would not change the voting system no matter the result. Voters in New York City will cast ballots today for their next mayor.

Zoran Mamdani 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. I'm Neil Hurland.