The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/04 at 12:00 EST

Episode Date: November 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/04 at 12:00 EST

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Prime Minister Mark Carney and Finance Minister Francois-Philippe-Champaign have been signaling that, along with some big investments, there will be some big cuts. Janice McGregor reports. This finance minister has been sitting on a number of secrets, including exactly what he decided after writing his cabinet colleagues last summer and telling them to find $25 billion in spending reductions, way more than the Liberals had campaigned on.

A senior Canadian official tells CBC News that tens of billions worth of programming and expenditure cuts have been identified. Mark Carney may have started off the year talking about trimming the bureaucracy through attrition, but that message has migrated in recent weeks as the scale of these spending reductions took shape. The Prime Minister signaled in his pre-budget speech two weeks ago that some things the Liberals have been doing that campaigned on perhaps still want to do aren't possible now.

So as we get our hands on this budget, we're going to check for what campaign promises have to be set aside, if not outright abandoned. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. CBC Radio will have special coverage of today's budget rollout. Catherine Cullen from the House and Susan Bonner from Your World Tonight. or hosting. It gets underway at 4 o'clock Eastern on CBC Radio 1 and on the CBC Listen app. Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney has died. Cheney served alongside Republican President George W. Bush

for two terms between 2001 and 2009. And for decades, he was a towering political figure in Washington. Following the attacks of 9-11, Cheney oversaw the country's so-called War on Terror and the controversial invasion of Iraq, which he always defended. Here he is 15 years ago. go on CNN. I don't think you can make a case that the world would be better off today if Saddam Hussein were still in power. So no regrets about Iraq. I think we made exactly the right decisions.

In recent years, Cheney turned away from the Republican Party and was publicly critical of Donald Trump. Cheney called Trump, quote, a coward and a threat to the Republic. And he endorsed Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election campaign. Dick Cheney was 84 years old. Now to the Yukon election and after nine years with the liberals in office, the territory is getting a new government and a new premier. Gabrielle Planka has the details now from Whitehorse.

After nearly a decade of liberal rule, the Yukon swung blue last night. Voting in a Yukon Party majority government, Premier elect, Curry Dixon says the territory voted for change. And the good news is that change is here. The Yukon Party won 14. of the Territory's 21 seats capitalizing on the collapse

of the Yukon Liberals after a change in leadership and retirement of all seven incumbent ministers lost all but one seat in the Legislative Assembly and even that seat was won by less than 10 votes triggering an automatic recount. The Yukon and DP took the

remaining six seats. Many new faces will sit in the Legislative Assembly this time around with less than half of Yukon's MLAs returning from the last session. Gabriot Blanca, CBC News, Whitehorse. Voters in New York City are electing a new mayor today, and the opinion polls are suggesting 34-year-old Zoran Mandami is the clear frontrunner, ahead of former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo,

who, as Mandami likes to point out, has been endorsed by Donald Trump. The MAGA movement's embrace of Andrew Cuomo is reflective of Donald Trump's understanding that this would be the best mayor for him. Not the best mayor for New York City, not the best mayor for New Yorkers, but the best mayor for Donald Trump is his administration. The campaign has obviously caught the imagination of New Yorkers with more than 700,000 voters casting an early ballot. That is a new record. And that is the World This Hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcast.

The World This Hour is updated every hour seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.