World Report - November 4: Tuesday's top stories in 10 minutes

Episode Date: November 4, 2025

Prime Minister Mark Carney's mantra is "spend less to invest more." Today's federal budget will reveal exactly what that means. Former US Vice President Dick Cheney dies from complications of pneumonia, cardiac and vascular disease at age 84.Israel's former top military lawyer is in police custody; charges relate to a video allegedly showing the abuse of a Palestinian detainee.British Columbia's forestry sector looks to Ottawa for support to withstand punishing US tariffs on softwood lumber. The Yukon Party wins majority government, Currie Dixon to become next Premier. New Jersey, Virginia vote for a new governor; California votes on redistricting plan Proposition 50. 

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. This is a CBC podcast. This is World Report. Good morning. I'm Marcia Young. It is budget day in Canada, and Prime Minister Mark Carney is signaling it will come with big investments. CBC News has confirmed the budget will include $50 billion over 10 years for local infrastructure funding. It will bankroll housing, transportation, and health care facilities. Let's bring in Janice McGregor from our Parliamentary Bureau.

And Janice, Carney's mantra has been spend less to invest more. Today, we find out what that means. Marcia, when Francois-Filippe-Champin told reporters yesterday that this budget would have no surprises, he must have been referring to the big ticket, as he's deemed them generational investments that we've been hearing about for months. Because 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. Among the programs that are cancelled or expanse, firing a Justin Trudeau legacy item, the promise to plant two billion trees by 2031. This budget will have a climate strategy, but it's not going to feature that anymore. 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. Could all of this be leading to a change in Canadian tax rates? The Prime Minister has signaled an interest in tax reform to improve Canada's competitiveness, but we don't know what that means. Corporate tax changes, more write-offs perhaps, for startups or other strategic industries. Well, some of this dovetail with climate strategy.

In an era of households stressing over affordability, personal or even consumption tax increases have fallen out of political fashion, any kind of tax increase would be waving a red cape in the face of this opposition conservative party in particular. But governments have to pay their bills somehow. And if economic forecast remained if the only other alternative is a lot more red ink. Thank you, Janice. You're welcome. The CBC's Janice McGregor in Ottawa.

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 was a polarizing political figure in Washington. Cheney oversaw the country's so-called War on Terror after 9-11. He also led the controversial invasion of Iraq, which he always defended. Here he is speaking to CNN 15 years ago. 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 has distanced himself from the Republican Party, he was critical of U.S. President Donald Trump, even going so far as to endorse Democratic candidate Kamala Harris for president during last year's election. Dick Cheney was 84 years old. Israel's former chief military advocate general

is in police custody. Yifat Omer Yer Shalami's detention has been extended after an hours-long search by Israeli police. She's being held on suspicion of obstructing justice and breach of trust. The charges relate to a video, that allegedly shows the abuse of a Palestinian detainee. The CBC's Crystal Gomansing has more from Jerusalem and a warning.

Some of the details are disturbing. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said enormous damage has been done to the state, that the incident instead timing could be the most severe information blow in Israel's existence. Netanyahu's comment Sunday came after Yirfat-Tomer-Yeros. Shami, Israel's chief military advocate general, quit her job. In her resignation letter Friday, she said she authorized the release of a video from inside the military base and detention camp. The security camera footage from 2024 showed soldiers taking a prisoner aside and then crowding around while blocking visibility of their actions with riot shields. The prisoner was allegedly beaten and stabbed in the rectum with a sharp object.

Five reservists were charged with aggravated abuse and causing serious bodily harm to the detainee. They've denied the charges and have not been named. A criminal investigation into the leak began last week, leading to Tom Riyar Shami's resignation. Israel's defense minister condemned her actions and accused her of spreading a blood libel against IDF troops. Her arrest has deepened a growing divide inside Israel between the farward. right government that accuses her of damaging Israel's reputation on the global stage and those who feel the military needs to be held accountable for any possible war crimes. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, Jerusalem.

British Columbia's forestry sector is looking to the federal government for a lifeline. It wants support to withstand punishing U.S. tariffs on softwood lumber. The BC government was considering running a new anti-tariff ad in support of the struggling industry, but as Katie DeRosa reports, it is now rethinking that move. We don't have a lot of time here. We're probably across the country closing it on 2,000 lost jobs. Derek Nyborg, President of the Forest Products Association of Canada, says he wants to see a federal budget that includes support for forestry workers and businesses. It's an industry that's been hammered by the 45% softwood lumber tariffs imposed by the U.S.

Prime Minister Mark Carney has warned of a budget that will force Canadians to make sacrifices Those in BC's forestry sector say they've sacrificed enough. At a softwood summit yesterday in Vancouver, BC's premier says he's now convinced Ottawa has made the industry a priority. It's larger than the automotive sector. It's larger than aluminum and steel combined. And it deserves to be treated with the seriousness and respect. David E.B. and federal minister for Canada, U.S. trade, Dominic LeBlanc, committed to a new BC Ottawa task force to respond to punishing U.S. tariffs on lumber exports.

The softwood lumber continues to be something that we had been raising with the Americans. Canada's trade talks with the U.S. are currently stalled. A result of U.S. President Donald Trump's furious reaction to Ontario's anti-tariff advertisements. BC was planning to run advertisements of its own, focused on how U.S. tariffs make products more expensive for Americans. That plan is now on pause. We will not be running the ads. E.B. says any future ads will be developed with Ottawa's blessing. Katie de Rosa, CBC News, Victoria.

Yukoners chose to move on from the status quo. They chose a new path. They chose change. That is Yukon's premier elect Curry Dixon. His Yukon party was handed a majority by voters in yesterday's election and is expected to win 14 of the territory's 21 ridings. The Yukon NDP will become the official opposition. Leader Kate White says she plans to hold the incoming government accountable

as residents continue to struggle with affordability and access to health care. care. After nearly a decade of rule, the Yukon liberals won just one seat in the legislative assembly. Some voters are going to the polls and parts of the U.S. today. New York City votes for a new mayor, New Jersey, and Virginia residents will choose a new governor. And California voters will decide whether to adopt Proposition 50. The redistricting plan is expected to set the stage for next year's midterms. Steve Futterman has more. Even though it's being voted on today, the focus of Prop 50 is next year, specifically next year's U.S. elections for the House of Representatives. Polls give Democrats a good chance to win the House in 2026. If that happens, Donald Trump's legislative agenda would likely come to a halt, leading Trump earlier this year to find ways to hold on to the House.

We have an opportunity in Texas to pick up five seats. We are entitled to five more seats. Trump came up with a plan to redraw congressional maps in Republican-friendly states, and in Texas, Republicans went along. They redrew the maps to try to turn Democratic seats into Republican seats. Traditionally, maps are redrawn every 10 years after the U.S. census. The next time is in 2030. Democrats say Prop 50 is designed to counter what Trump and Republicans are doing now, California Governor Gavin Newsom. I know they say don't mess with Texas. Well, don't mess with the great golden state.

Democrats here say normally they would be against a clearly partisan tactic like this, but they insist they can't stand back and let Trump do it in Texas and in other states. Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren. We need to be able to win next year, and we're not going to be able to do that if we allow President Trump to rig the entire thing. Prop 50 is designed to have a time limit. After the 2030 elections, the process would go back to its current, Nonpartisan method. Steve Futterman, CBC News, Los Angeles.

And that is the latest national and international news from World Report News Anytime, CBCNews.ca. I'm Marcia Young.