The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/04 at 18:00 EST

Episode Date: November 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/04 at 18:00 EST

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From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Stephanie Skanderas. Mark Carney's first budget as Prime Minister features a roughly $78 billion deficit. In tabling it, finance minister Francois Philippe Champagne called the budget a generational investment in Canada. It includes shedding 40,000 public service jobs in the next few years through buyouts and attrition. Champagne said in uncertain times the government needed to act. It's all about discipline. The Prime Minister has been clear. Canada's new government will spend less so we can invest more.

Mr. Speaker, our budget puts forward $60 billion in saving over five years, Mr. Speaker. At least three MPs from other parties will have to support the budget for it to pass. The Green Party's Elizabeth May said she won't support it, as it is. is now. Block Quebecois leader, Eve Francois, said he can hardly see how any of his MPs would support it. An interim NDP leader, Don Davies, says his caucus will take time to study the budget. Meanwhile, in the budget aftermath, a Nova Scotia MP is resigning from the conservative caucus. Chris Dantramont represents the riding of Acadia Annapolis. A party spokesperson has told CBC News he is now out of the caucus. Don Tramont told Politico today he was considering

crossing the floor, he said he would decide on his future in the next few days after reviewing what was in the budget. Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, who served two terms under George W. Bush, has died at age 84. It happened last night from complications due to pneumonia and cardiac disease. Willie Lowry has more on how he'll be remembered. He is widely regarded as one of, if not the most powerful vice presidents in U.S. history. He helped to steer the country, out of the ashes of September 11th, he was a major proponent of the war on terror and the invasion of Iraq,

a move he defended long after it was proven that there were no weapons of mass destruction to find. A suggestion that's been made by some U.S. senators that the president of the United States or any member of this administration purposely misled the American people on pre-war intelligence is one of the most dishonest

and reprehensible charges ever aired. in this city. His career, though, was not limited to the vice presidency. He served in various positions under multiple presidents, including as White House Chief of Staff and as Secretary of Defense. In a statement, the former president George W. Bush said Cheney's death was, quote, a loss to the nation. Willie Lowry, CBC News, Washington. In the Philippines. At least 46 people are dead after a powerful typhoon struck the nation on Tuesday. It caused severe flooding in many areas. Thousands had to evacuate. The storm is expected to make landfall in Vietnam on Thursday. As the climate crisis grows increasingly dire, global efforts

to curb emissions are slowing down. That's according to the annual UN emissions report released ahead of COP 30. The climate change conference will be held this month in Brazil. Aniat Singh has more. We need unprecedented cuts to greenhouse gas emissions in an ever-compressing time frame. Inga Anderson is the head of the UN Environment Program. Their annual emissions gap report says that current climate plans would lead to global warming of 2.3 to 2.5 degrees over the course of this century. That's only a slight improvement from last year when we were headed to 2.6 to 2.8 degrees and far from the 1.5 degrees, scientists say is a relatively safe limit. Antonio Guterres, the UN Secretary General. But this is no reason to surrender. It is a reason to surrender. It is a reason

to step up and speed up. The UN hopes the message spurs action at the upcoming climate change summit this month in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, where leaders will face the daunting task of carving out space for climate action in a sea of conflicting economic and geopolitical priorities. In Ayat Singh, CBC News, Toronto.

And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Stephanie Skanderas. You know,