World Report - September 5: Friday's top stories in 10 minutes

Episode Date: September 5, 2025

Latest jobs report shows Canada's economy lost 66-thousand jobs last month.Prime Minister Mark Carney to make announcement about Canada's strategic sectors. Auto part supplier TFT Global Inc. in Oshawa, Ontario plans to lay off 250 workers this month. Canadian Armed Forces member deployed in Latvia missing, says DND. Pentagon sends warning to Venezuela as 2 military aircraft fly near US warship. Portuguese officials confirm 2 Canadian citizens killed in Lisbon funicular crash. Police in Ontario identify human remains in a decades-old cold case in Algonquin Provincial Park. Justin Bieber releases surprise album, called "Swag II." 

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Canada's economy continues to shed jobs. The latest numbers from Statistics Canada are out, and they show 66,000 jobs were lost last month. This is the second straight month of decline. It pushes the unemployment rate to 7.1%. The CBC's senior business correspondent, Peter Armstrong, has more. This is worse than expected, and expectations weren't exactly high to begin with. It extends the job losses we've seen since the beginning of the year.

The unemployment rate is the highest we've seen outside of the COVID pandemic since 2016. Statkan says now 1.6 million Canadians were unemployed in August. And if you look into the specific sectors, you can see a bit of a trend there too. high-skill, technical, professional and scientific services, transportation and warehousing, manufacturing, those were the sector's hardest hit. Ontario, BC, and Alberta, that's where the job losses were concentrated. Now, for all of that doom and gloom, there is one sort of caveat here of the 66,000 jobs lost, 60,000 were part-time. Full-time work was little changed, in the words of Stadkan. And that's good, but clearly not enough to offset this wave of lousy,

the jobs data right across the economy. Peter Armstrong, CBC News, Toronto. Prime Minister Mark Carney is about to make an announcement in Mississauga, Ontario. CBC News has learned that his government is delaying a plan to force automakers to hit a minimum number of electric vehicle sales next year. The EV mandate will be put on pause as Carney's government reviews the policy. Automakers have been lobbying the liberal government to scrap the mandate completely. They say it will put thousands of jobs at risk. Just one of a series of measures Carney is expected to reveal this hour for sectors struggling as a result of tariffs. CBC News has learned that an auto parts supplier in Oshua, Ontario plans to lay off 250 workers this month

as U.S. tariffs targeting Canada's auto industry take effect and General Motors cuts a third shift in its plant this fall. Rochelle Revenrin has more. We're also frustrated that we can't provide all the answers right now to everybody, in that we are in a state of uncertainty. That's Unifor Local 2-2-2 President Jeff Gray. He represents GM workers at the Oshawa plant and also workers for TFT Global Incorporated. TFT supplies auto parts

and has around 800 workers on the line. For weeks, these workers have been staring at a termination notice posted above the punch-in clock at the factory. CBC News has seen a photo of the document. It says 248 TFT workers will be laid off at the end of the month. In a statement, the company said that operations depend on GM shifts. Flavio Volpe, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers Association,

says Canadian workers throughout the supply chain are on edge. You end up to be an auto worker. You're going to go on your shift. You're going to get paid. You're going to raise your family. You're going to pay your rent. And now we've all a little bit political. We're all a bit anxious.

These job losses are the latest hit to Canada's auto sector. amid ongoing U.S. tariffs. Union President Jeff Gray said there's hope TFT will delay the layoffs until early November. That's when GM is expected to cut the plant's third shift, though no date has been confirmed. The union warns that adding up laid-off GM workers, plus the hundreds of suppliers who also serve the line, means some 2,200 people could be out of work this fall. Rochelle Revenrin, CBC News, Oshawa. The Department of National Defense says search efforts are ongoing for a

Canadian Armed Forces member missing in Latvia. Warrant Officer George Hull was reported missing on Tuesday. Hull is a vehicle technician with 408 tactical helicopter squadron based in Edmonton. He's serving in Latvia as part of the Canadian-led NATO mission there. Latvian police are leading the investigation. The U.S. is warning Venezuela against what it's calling provocative moves in the Caribbean. It says Venezuela flew two military planes near one of its ships in the region. The U.S. has recently bulked up its presence to counter drug trafficking.

The CBCC's Willie Lowry has more from Washington. Willie, what's going on? So, John, this is all an extension of President Donald Trump's long-held desire to curb the flow of illegal drugs into the U.S. Now, the administration has been pretty clear in recent days that it's willing to go on the offensive. Earlier this week, Trump released footage that he said showed a strike on a boat allegedly full of drugs and members of a Venezuelan gang called Tren de Aragua. Now, that strike raises serious legal questions, and it's unclear what authority the U.S. has to take actions like that in international waters.

Here's Secretary of Defense Pete Higsef defending the strike. If you're trafficking drugs and you're a known cartel entity, a designated terror organization, and they're headed for the United States or part of a process that would head to the United States, that will have lethal consequences. The poisoning of the American people is over. And there's been a bit of a war of words between Washington and Caracas. And this incident where two jets flew near U.S. ships appears to be the latest escalation.

Wellie, this as the U.S. Defense Department is now going through a rebrand. What are they doing? The name change harkens back to a different era. Up until shortly after the Second World War, it was the Department of War. and the administration has been determined to rebrand the military. Hague Seth has made rooting out so-called wokeness a major part of his short tenure. President Trump is expected to sign an executive order later today. CBC's Willie Lowry in Washington. Thanks, Willie.

My pleasure. Portuguese police are confirming two Canadians died in Lisbon's finicular railway crash. Police say 11 of the 16 people killed were foreign tourists. Government officials are scheduled to release a preliminary road. report later today. Chris Brown, reports from Lisbon. Overnight, the wreckage of the Gloria Lyft was removed by an immense crane, which also took away the second less seriously damaged fornicular rail car that shared the same route of the steep, windy hill. The ripped up rails and road underneath the wreckage hinted at the force

of the crash Wednesday night. Police said identifying some of the 16 people killed has been a challenge, including the two Canadians. So we were driving up, and all of a sudden, there was no breaks in our cable car. It was going down fast with acceleration. Rasha Abdo and her family had just started up the hill on the lower tram when it suddenly lurched backwards, and the higher tram came around the corner above them and crashed at very high speed. And I told my husband, he's a doctor, please go up to see if you can rescue anyone.

But he couldn't. It was already crashed and there was no option to take out people. The early speculation is that the cable connecting the two tram cars which provided traction and stability snapped. But the CEO of the company that maintained the railway said an inspection had just been done that morning and all was in order. Chris Brown, CBC News, Lisbon. Police in Ontario say they've solved a decades-old cold case in Algonquin Provincial Park.

Human remains were discovered there in 1980. And now, more than four decades later, police have used DNA to identify the body and track down some family members. Emma Weller has the story. I identified myself as a police officer from Ontario, Canada, and the next words out of her mouth was, is this about my brother? It was a phone call Detective Sergeant Philip Holmes with Ontario Provincial Police won't forget, calling Ruth Singer to let her know after nearly 50 years they've found her brother's body. Right away, she burst into tears. But it was tears, I could tell right away, that there were tears of happiness, tears of relief.

Her brother, Eric Singer, from Cleveland, Ohio, left home in October 1973. His other sister told police he left on his bike with a backpack, and they never heard from him again. Fast forward to today, police have identified his remains in Algonquin Park. Holmes says the investigation began in 1980. A hiker was cutting off trail from one trail to another, and came across a human skull laying on the ground.

It turned into a cold case until the police force began using investigative genetic genealogy. It works to match DNA with potential family members. Matthew Waterfield is with the DNA Doe Project, who police turned to in 2022. Waterfield says a match was made in less than 24 hours, which is lucky. To be able to reunite him with his identity so quickly, provide answers to his family without a grueling years-long search. was a tremendous relief. This summer, both of the sisters visited the trail where their brother spent his final days.

Emma Weller, CBC News, Ottawa. And finally, the song of the summer. How about the surprise song of the summer? This is for the people making the most to find out nowhere. New music from Justin Bieber, part of a brand new album, released at midnight last night. It's called Swag 2. And fans didn't see it coming because the prequel,

Swag was just released in July. This is the London-Ontario-born singer's eighth studio album. And that's the latest national and international news from World Report. I'm John Northcott. This is CBC News.