World Report - August 3: Sunday's top stories in 10 minutes

Episode Date: August 3, 2025

Hundreds of homes on Vancouver Island are subject to an evacuation order due to a wildfire.New data looks into what professions may be driven to substance abuse.Israel's defence minister calls for the Israli takeover of Gaza.Health Canada recalling several brands of baby nest beds.Canadian teen Victoria Mboko has scored a stunning upset at the Canadian Open tennis tournament.

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This is a CBC podcast. This is World Report. Good morning. I'm Sam Samson. Canada, U.S. trade minister, Dominic LeBlanc says he expects Mark Carney and Donald Trump to speak in the next few days. This morning, LeBlanc told CBS's Face the Nation, he thinks there could be a deal to strike down newly imposed tariffs. We think the economies of both countries are strengthened when we do things together. The trading relationship between Canada and the United States is unlike other partners. One description, which I thought was very apt, we don't sell things to each other as much as we build things together.

And that's why it's difficult in this relationship when so much is integrated, but we remain very optimistic. A higher 35% levy took effect on Friday. it only applies to Canadian goods entering the United States that are not covered under the current Canada-US Mexico trade agreement. The majority of Canadian exports are covered by that free trade deal. Well, BC's fire season is surging as the number of active wildfires has jumped in the past few days. About a third of fires are considered out of control and hundreds of properties on Vancouver Island are now under an evacuation order. The CBC's Trisha Kindleman has more. The Wesley Ridge Wildfire is forcing an evacuation of about 400 properties and a provincial park on the east coast of Vancouver Island due to a wildfire burning out of control.

Another 238 properties are under evacuation alert, meaning residents need to be ready to flee at a moment's notice. I think this is bigger than the one that had a couple years ago. That's a big fire. On that one for sure. This one is threatening our community a lot more than the other one being across the lake. Officials said they had no reports of homes lost to the blaze on Saturday. BC Wildfire Service, though, said some firefighting equipment and railway trestles were lost. Workers and staff were safely withdrawn.

In all, five evacuation orders are in place around BC, including around Lytton, which suffered a devastating wildfire in 2021. The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center says national availability of resources is limited, and international resources are being mobilized. There are special air quality warnings and statements across Canada, with smoke from forest fires causing reduced visibility and poor air quality according to Environment Canada. The statements cover the country stretching from eastern British Columbia into western Quebec, varying in severity.

Some of that smoke is also traveling south, prompting air quality concerns in some states as well. Trisha Kindleman, CBC News, Toronto. New Canadian data shows workers in some jobs may be more driven to substance abuse than others. British Columbia's coroner took a look at the careers of people who died over a three-year span. It sheds new light on the toxic drug crisis in that province. One of the industries seeing the largest numbers of drug fatalities is the trades. Michelle Morton has more. There can be broader awareness of the sort of occupational inequities that we see in overdose fatalities.

Lindsay Richardson is the Canada Research Chair in Social Inclusion and Health Equity. She says there could be several occupational drivers of substance use. New data from the BC Corridor Service shows those employed in trades, transport, and equipment operation account for 21% of deaths on average between 2022 and last year. Sometimes the work environment is isolated or inhospitable. and it's often really physically demanding work with high rates of work-related pain and injury. With the Construction Foundation of BC, Trevor Botkin says he experienced some of those challenges firsthand. I started drowning and my mental health shifted, my drug use shifted, and now what was simply blowing off steam became this place I was drowning and I didn't know how to ask for help.

After seeking treatment in 2019, Botkin now provides supports for those work. working in the industry. They are dying for somebody to hear them and see them and to understand what they're going through. Richardson says there's no single solution to this complex issue. The fact that we have multiple people in multiple sectors who have a lot to bring to bear to this issue. Botkin, meanwhile, says mental health conversations on the job site need to be normalized to save lives. Michelle Morton, CBC News, Vancouver. Israel's hard-right security minister is calling for the country to take over Gaza and encourage Palestinians to leave. Idemar Ben-Gavir made his declaration in front of what Jews call the Temple Mount and what's known to Muslims as the Al-Aqsa mosque.

It's the first time a government minister has openly prayed at the site. Jews are normally allowed to tour the site but not pray there. Palestinian leaders as well as Jordan and Saudi Arabia are condemning Ben Gavir's move as a provocation. Meanwhile, hundreds of Palestinians rallied in the West Bank, demanding an end to the war in Gaza. They are accusing the international community of complicity in the deaths of Palestinians in Gaza and in Israeli prisons. They want the world to take action to save them, with family members of prisoners talking about the conditions in custody. My son is in Majidot reason, and he suffers from many things as the lack of medicine, the lack of food. My son is very hungry. He lost more than 10 kilo of his weight. Canada, the UK and France are among the countries who have pledged to support a Palestinian state,

provided Hamas gives up their fight and surrenders any role in governing the territories. Health Canada is recalling several different models of baby nest beds due to safety risks. The infant beds are from bee chic and chicure with the brand name 11. Health Canada warns of the potential of fall, strangulation, and entrapment hazards. The department has not reported incidents nor injuries in Canada so far, but it asks consumers to stop using the products and throw them away. Well, most places across the country charge a deposit for bottled or canned. canned drinks. Customers usually get about 10 cents when they return them to the depot. But would

you choose instead a small chance to win $1,000 over the guaranteed money? A new paper from the University of British Columbia suggests many people would say yes. Chad Pawson reports. Vancouver resident Leanne Turner at her local return it getting her 10 cents back for each of a couple dozen beverage containers. It's not really about the money, she says, but making sure waste gets in the right place. This feels like I'm doing a better job of recycling. But what if instead of 10 cents per container, you had a small chance to win $1,000? If I win $1,000, it'd be nice because I live in Vancouver and that would be just a nice

little bonus. It's a subject of a new study from UBC's psychology department. It argues people prefer a 0.01 chance of winning $1,000 on a container return over the guaranteed 10 cents. So much so, they may end up recycling. more. Jade Radke is the lead author. Often when we're looking at such a small reward, like 10 cents, people don't really care about it too much.

And we'd rather go for that larger chance at a larger reward. We have more excitement with those things, higher hope. It's kind of just like playing the lottery. You kind of do it for fun a little bit as well. The authors plan to study the idea more to see how people who collect and redeem lots of containers react to it. But a gamble, they say, may just be. be worth it to further help get waste in the right place.

Chad Pawson, CBC News, Vancouver. In Montreal, a teenager from Toronto has scored a stunning upset at the Canadian Open Tennis Tournament, toppling one of the tourneys' top-ranked players. Ed Climmon has the story. 18-year-old Victoria Mboko dominated world number two and French Open champion Cocoa golf on Saturday, securing a 6-1-6-4 win that took just 60. three minutes. Three months ago, the Toronto native lost to golf at the Italian Open in a close three-set match. This time, with a sold-out crowd in Montreal cheering her on, she knew exactly

what was needed for a different result. I just wanted to stay solid and I wanted to be right there with her and take as many opportunities as I could. And yeah, at the end of the day, it really went in my favor. And Boko will now play a quarterfinal match on Monday, where she will be heavily favored to win again. If she does, she will break into the top 50 on the women's tour and be just two wins away from becoming the first Canadian to win her national championship since Bianca and Drescue in 2019. Ed Climann for CBC News, Toronto. That is your latest national and international news from World Report.

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