Your World Tonight - Carney says U.S. should stop insults, Nepal search, last captive whales leave, and more

Episode Date: September 1, 2026

Prime Minister Mark Carney says trade talks with the U.S. can resume once the White House stops insulting Canada. He says recent jabs at Canada’s military are beneath the office of U.S. cabinet members.And: The death toll in the flooding in the Nepal-Tibet border region in the Himalayas has passed 1,000 people. Thirty Canadians are missing. But at least 300 people have been rescued from hydropower tunnels. And there’s hope that hundreds more could be sheltering there.Also: Canada’s last captive whales leave for the U.S.. Canada banned whale and dolphin captivity in 2019, but the animals at Marineland in Niagara Falls were allowed to stay. With the park closed, they needed somewhere else to go.Plus: Germany accuses Russia of attempting an attack at Leipzig airport, grain is moving again at the Port of Churchill, and more.

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Other high-ranking officials have posted memes disparaging the Canadian Army and Navy, or echoed Trump's comments about Canada being the 51st state. Prime Minister Mark Carney says that behavior is beneath their office and stands in the way of getting trade talks going again. This is Your World Tonight. It's Tuesday, September 1st, just before 6 p.m. Eastern. I'm Salima Shivji, also on the podcast.

I actually had a patient asking what kind of business I was running here, and it made me think that perhaps health care should not be viewed as a business anymore, but should perhaps be viewed as a resource. vital to Canadians. Alberta's new healthcare policy let some physicians work in both the public and private systems. Critics say it could bring longer wait times and two tiers of access. And they warn

if that happens in Alberta, it could happen everywhere else. Mark Carney is calling on the Trump administration to stop the trolling and the insults so the US and Canada can actually talk trade. The Prime Minister's comments come the day after his liberals won three by-elections in three-prone, provinces. As Tom Perry reports, Carney's taking that as a sign. Voter support how Canada is fighting its trade war with Washington. First off, I want to congratulate the candidates.

For Prime Minister Mark Carney, a brief moment of celebration after three lopsided by-election wins for his governing liberals. The message from Canadians, I think, is clear. They've given their support more than 50 percent in each of these writings to the government's plan. That plan unfolding amid an escalating trade war with Canada's largest trading partner and an administration intent, it seems, on insulting and belittling its closest ally. Donald Trump has raged online and trolled Canadians by signing an order to rename Lake Ontario. A steady stream of voices from inside the Trump regime have also been taking shots at this country, including Vice President J.D. Vance and Treasury Secretary Scott Besson.

I mean, we're not at war with Canada. How are we going to be a war with Canada? Or what are they going to take their two submarines from the Edmonton Mall and sickam on us? We have to remember. Candidate is a state. Sorry, Brodian Slith. Defense Secretary Pete Hegsteth, the latest member of the president's brain trust to pile on, with a post on social media apparently aimed at demeaning Canadian military cadets. The Prime Minister calls all this trash talking beneath the office of a U.S. Cabinet Secretary and says none of it will help reboot talks on a trade deal. And when the Americans stop doing memes, stop throwing shade,

stop trying to be tough and start being serious about having those discussions, we can have those discussions. But it's not constructive, but that's their democracy. Insults from Trump and his team aren't the only thing putting off Canadians. There's also the administration's insistence on cozying up to its support. opposed rival Russia. Finance Minister Francoe-Philippe Champagne is attending a G20 summit in North Carolina hosted by the U.S. Treasury Secretary, the U.S. angering its allies by inviting Russia's finance minister to attend over their objections.

Created a lot of discomfort around the table, not only from Canada, but I would say from a number of colleagues around the table. Despite that discomfort on so many fronts, The Prime Minister says on trade, there remains an opportunity for what he calls a mutually beneficial deal. With an administration whose signature Carney himself has acknowledged is sometimes written in pencil. Tom Perry, CBC News, Ottawa. Alberta says changes to its health care system will provide expanded care by giving patients the option for some private procedures. Critics say it threatens the very idea of universal health care. They've taken to the streets asking the federal government to intervene.

Megan Fitzpatrick has more. Advocates for Canada's public health care system gathered outside federal health minister Marjorie Michel's office in Montreal, protesting Alberta's new health care law. Because we know that what happens in Alberta doesn't stay in Alberta. The protesters worried other provinces will follow suit called on Michelle to intervene in Alberta's new dual practice health care model. So it's time for our federal liberal government to speak up for all of us. Rallies like this were held across the country, organized by the Canadian Health Coalition and other groups.

They say Bill 11 sets a dangerous precedent for two-tiered American-style health care. The dual practice model allows some physicians to work in public and private systems at the same time with the goal of reducing wait times. Patients will be able to pay out-of-pocket at private clinics for procedures like hip replacements and cataract surgeries. Family doctors are not included in the model.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith defended the model today and promised rigorous oversight. It is perhaps a different approach for Alberta, but it's not an unusual approach when you look at universal systems around the world. Smith said 400 doctors have expressed interest in the dual practice system so far. They will have to provide the same level of service in the public system that they currently do and only offer private care on top of that, the Premier said. Dr. Keith Wilsonholm, an orthopedic surgeon in Red Deer, says his workload is already heavy, and he questions how many of his peers can take on more surgeries. Right now, I would say we don't have the capacity. We're already stretched too thin.

And what about the nurses and other staff needed for surgeries, Wollstone Home wonders? He worries the dual system will drain resources from the public system. You know, the public system is strained. So anything that's going to take away resources from the public system, I worry a little bit about that. The Canadian Medical Association is also worried about patients paying for care. Its president, Dr. Bolu Ogunyami, says access to care is a problem. But the solution is not to privatize care.

The solution should be to strengthen our universal public health care system. The CMA believes Bill 11 violates the Canada Health Act, an accusation the Alberta government denies. The federal health minister's office says Michelle is, in close contact with her Alberta counterpart, and they've been working closely to ensure the Canada Health Act is respected. Protesters at a rally in Calgary, though, expressed their concerns that Bill 11 will mean profits over patients. Megan Fitzpatrick, CBC News, Toronto. Coming right up, search and rescue teams look for survivors in Nepal as the death toll rises above a thousand people.

Also, Germany says an attempted attack at Leipzig airport last month was carried out by Russia, part of a campaign to target supporters of Ukraine. And later, we'll have this story. I'm Cameron McIntosh in Toronto. The last captive whales in Canada are on their way to new homes. Marine land's last six belugas were loaded in special tanks headed for aquariums in the U.S. We're out of money, out of time, nowhere for them to go. While Marine Land calls it a big success, animal rights have.

say there are still concerns for the whale's well-being. I have more coming up here on your world tonight. More than a thousand people are now confirmed dead in Nepal, victims of the flash floods that tore through the Himalayas a week ago. Some 4,000 people are missing, including 30 Canadians. As Sasha Petrissik reports, even as so many mourn their loved ones, search and rescue teams are still finding survivors. At the mouth of the valley where flooding brought so much grief to Nepal, they gather, lighting candles in the dusk and looking for strength. As a Nepali, I'm feeling so bad for our country. Jia Kaffle is a student. Let's just pray for Nepal and let's hope we will build again together.

Rebuilding is the plan, but searching is the priority for survivors and survivors. for the dead. Hundreds of bodies are carried through the rain to mass graves. More are still pulled from the water rushing by. It's no longer a wall of ice and debris, but frightening nonetheless, says Anup Rana from World Vision International. But when they see nothing they're left behind, it's really traumatizing for them. Even the houses that they have left, they are fearful to reach even there. The massive search effort has brought some good news. Regarding to this rescue, until 1700, we have rescued 118 people.

More than 100 Nepalis rescued announces a senior officer from the Army, plus one British survivor. Of the 30 Canadians still missing, there is no sign yet, though Ottawa has sent extra consular officers to help. Some 300 have been pulled from tunnels near Nepal's hydroelectric dams, but some 500 more are still trapped under the mud. The dams are close to the glacier that collapsed causing the huge floods last week, and scientists are looking to see if more advanced notice could have been given. For now, though, the horns of funerals echo through the valley

as Nepal mourns. Sasha Petrissik, CBC News, Toronto. Jordan says Iranian missiles targeted at a U.S. base in its country resulted in no casualties. Iran's Revolutionary Guard had claimed it killed U.S. forces there. Donald Trump had warned Tehran not to retaliate against American strikes. In a social media post, Trump said the U.S. attacked Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz. He called it retaliation for Iran's attempt to put mines in the war. the strait, as well as for earlier attacks on a military base in Jordan.

Russia is being accused of trying to expand the war in Ukraine to Kiev's European allies. For the first time, Germany has officially blamed Moscow for a drone attack at Leipzig airport last month, a claim Russia denies. Germany has announced retaliatory measures and says it's looking at more incidents of suspected Russian sabotage. Chris Brown reports. In early August, a small quadcopter packed with high explosives targeted a parked Ukrainian cargo plane at Leipzig Airport. German authorities say only a faulty detonator prevented a deadly explosion. Moments later, as air traffic control rushed to close the airfield, an incoming commercial cargo flight struck a second drone mid-air, forcing the plane to abort its landing.

Russia was always the prime suspect. But today, Germany's foreign minister formally accused Vladimir Putin's government of a state-sponsored active violence on NATO soil. Germany is ordering the closure of some Russian diplomatic facilities with a vague promise of future EU trade sanctions. This expanding sabotage campaign comes as Moscow aggressively scales up its war inside Ukraine, now in its fifth year. Faster, jet-powered drones are Putin's newest weapon of terror.

For six straight days and nights, they've pounded the skies over Kiev. Twelve people were killed on the first day of the new school year. President Vladimir Zelenskyy joined students in one classroom. The Russians are despicable, he said. Even among enemies, there's usually an understanding that children are children. children. Russian attacks have damaged thousands of schools across Ukraine since the full-scale invasion began. Growing up in wartime is all that Kyiv's elementary school kids have ever known. What do you dream of, asks a reporter.

That the war will end, says one girl. Western analysts believe Putin intends to completely cripple Ukraine's energy grid this autumn, backed by tens of thousands of newly conscripted soldiers. But as he escalates, he's also facing rare public pushback from his most critical financial allies. At a summit in Central Asia, India's Prime Minister delivered a blunt, televised lecture to a visibly agitated Russian president. We need to move from endless war to the end of war,

said Prime Minister Narendra Modi. There is little sign, though, Putin is listening. Western officials warned the campaign of Russian sabotage across Europe is only getting started. Chris Brown, CBC News, London. Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial have wrapped up a fourth day of deliberations in Massachusetts with no verdict. They're trying to decide whether Clancy is criminally responsible for killing her three children. The 36-year-old doesn't deny strangling her children, but says she was suffering from post-partisan. psychosis. The trial has sparked international debate about the condition. This morning,

the jurors sent a note to Judge William Sullivan saying they had been unable to reach a unanimous verdict. He told them to keep trying. Unifor's national president says negotiations with Stilantis could be the toughest in the union's history. The union has already secured deals with two of Detroit's big three automakers, Ford and GM. Lana Payne says the trade war with the United States will make talks with Stalantis much more complicated. I've been calling the current economic situation exactly what it is, an existential crisis for our auto industry. After all, the most powerful leader in the world has said that he does not want us building cars or truck or anything. The union is pushing for the reopening of a plant

in Brampton, Ontario. It says Stalantas violated a deal when it idled the plant. back in 2023. Delantis Canada president and CEO Trevor Longley says the company has invested more money in Canada than any other automaker. We're very proud of that commitment that we've put in place and be the most invested manufacturer over the last few years here in Ontario. As we sit here today, Stalantis is the number one employer in terms of automotive OEMs in Canada, more than 10,000 employees.

And so this process for us is obviously an extremely important process. The union has set a talk. target of September 11th of Friday to secure a deal. A ship filled with grain is about to leave the port of Churchill in Manitoba for the first time in six years. The significance of that goes beyond just one shipment. The grain is bound for Europe at a time when trade with the United States is in question, and the reopening of the deep water seaport could help Canada's search for new markets. Josh Crabb has the story. The sound of thousands of tons of Canadian Durham wheat being

loaded on a ship at the port of Churchill feeds renewed optimism about its future. The shipment of grain supplied by a Saskatchewan company and transported by rail to the Hudson Bay Coast, now destined for customers in the Mediterranean. The first such shipment since 2020 to leave this port and the focus of a ceremony Monday marking the milestone. It's only at the beginning.

Mike Spence is Churchill's mayor and the chair of the Arctic Gateway Group, a consortium of northern communities and First Nations. They took over operations of the port and railway in 2018 after a Denver-based company shut down the port as the railway fell into disrepair. Now Spence and others see opportunity for Churchill to become a pivotal part of Canada's answer to the ongoing trade war with the U.S. By diversifying the goods that move through Churchill,

we can only help in terms of Canada playing a trading rule. Arctic Gateway says this will be the first of three shipments of grain to leave the port this season. Zinc and Manitoba Mined Podash will also be sent through the port to Europe. Chris Avery is Arctic Gateway's president and CEO. We can help diversify trade, get more Western resources to global markets, increase our presence in the Arctic and advance indigenous economic reconciliation. While the railway has been undergoing repairs to make these shipments possible, there are even bigger proposals being floated. A series of recent studies suggest a warming climate and

shrinking sea ice mean the current four-month shipping season could be extended, using vessels hardened against sea ice without a need for the most expensive icebreakers. Canada's Minister of Northern Antarctic Affairs, Rebecca Chartrand says the research will help establish what's possible in Churchill. It gives us the use of evidence to make sound decisions about Churchill's future. Manitoba's Premier Wob Canoe has previously said a port of Churchill expansion could also include an offshore liquefied natural gas terminal and would cost $70 to $80 billion. While some people in the region want increased port traffic, they don't want it to come at the cost of the environment. Or Churchill's eco-tourism industry and the world-renowned polar bear and beluga populations,

Katie DeMells is Métis and has lived in the northern community her entire life. I'm scared about fast-track stuff, so don't forget the environment. She says it's about finding balance and making sure Churchill has the infrastructure in place to keep pace with growth. Josh Crabbs, CBC News, Churchill, Manitoba. Two First Nations communities in New Brunswick are considering going nuclear, putting small power stations on their traditional land. The province has a full-scale reactor west of St. John, but this project is much further north than would be indigenous owned.

Supporters say it could help fulfill Canada's pledge to promote new nuclear, outside Ontario. Rachel Cave has more. We want to be part of the solution and not sit back and just watch it happen. Karen Narvey reflects on what new energy could mean to her community as children splash at the nearby beach.

The coastline here is threatened to by extreme weather events caused by climate change. And just a half-hour drive away, one of Canada's last coal-fired power plants still operates on traditional land. Narvi says people in Eel River Bar are looking at their options. Of course, with nuclear there's fear, fear explosions, fear of anything, you know, security.

But once they started talking about the project more and more, you could see the people's reactions sort of like that awe moment. Narvi says her band is considering a bid to host a small modular reactor or SMR near the Deepwater Port of Belduan to power new industry and jobs. I mean, yes, it's our traditional territory here, but we can expand that to other communities as well. Pupino Chief Terry Richardson envisions a working campus where indigenous students from across the region

could learn trades and new technology. You know, 90% of the supply chain is already in Ontario. Why can't we have more of that supply chain in New Brunswick? The company behind this project is Prodigy Clean Energy. At a recent conference in St. John, President Matthias Troier said the plan could see an SMR shipped from New Brunswick to Canada's north. At the end of life, you have the opportunity to take it away the exact same way as it brought it to site. So there is no legacy asset left behind. New Brunswick has given millions to SMR companies.

Problems and unplanned shutdowns at MB Power's Can Do reactor at Pointe-LePro have also contributed to the utility's $6 billion debt. New Brunswick's energy minister, Renee Lagasse, says he is open to new nuclear, but the province alone won't cover the bill or the risk. We're a small jurisdiction. Nuclear is expensive. Ban members in New Brunswick say they're planning a trip to Ontario

to learn more about Canada's first SMR, now being built at the Darlington site, where First Nations have an ownership deal. Narvi says there's interest in learning more while awaiting a study on environmental impacts. Is our water going to be okay? Is our land going to be okay? Can we fish? Can we hunt?

She says her members are keen to know how the next indigenous owned and run nuclear deal might look on their traditional land. Rachel Cave, CPC News, Eel River Bar, New Brunswick. The last six captive whales in Canada have now been moved to their new homes in the United States. The final chapter in an ongoing saga to save them. Ontario's Marine Land theme park once had 30 belugas.

When the cash strap park closed, the owner said they would be forced to euthanize them. The whales have avoided that fate, but as Cameron McIntosh reports, animal rights activists are still worried. Two of marine lands, beluga whales, Yukon and Gimler, splashing in their new home in Chicago, one rolling on its side for a trainer as she hands him a fish. Oh, you're a good boy. The whales transported overnight after being hoisted on slings into special containers at marine land in Niagara Falls and trucked to Toronto.

Loaded onto cargo planes. I'm glad that they get to travel and explore and have new beginnings. Taylor Liddell is a soon-to-be ex-marinland animal specialist who helped with the transfer. Heartbroken, it all came to this. It's kind of a forced let-go. So it's a lot of grievance, a lot of trying to find the silver lining. Four other whales were also flown to SeaWorld in San Antonio, the last of 30 beluga whales at Marine Land whose fate was unclear for years.

In 2019, Canada banned whale in dolphin captivity, breeding and performances. Marine land had an exemption. But the ban, public scrutiny and shifting attitudes, cratered revenues. The park closed in 2024, effectively stranding the whale. At one point, Marineland threatened to euthanize them after the federal government blocked its attempt to move the whales to China. Then a consortium of aquariums stepped in. So this saved their lives? Andrew Burns is Marine Land's lawyer and advisor.

If they couldn't get out, we are out of money, out of time, nowhere for them to go. No realistic options. The 30 whales and four dolphins were relocated in six different moves to aquariums in the U.S. and Spain. Hundreds of staff and specialists were involved. Last month, one of the whales died in Chicago about two weeks after being moved. The aquarium says it was dehydrated. Still, UBC zoologist Andrew Trites calls it the best of a bad situation. They've removed a remarkable number of animals and done it extremely well.

I don't think anybody could have asked for it to have gone better. Animal rights advocates long critical of marine land consider this a victory of sorts. They're concerned the whales now outside Canada, could still be bred. Debbie Metzler is with people for the ethical treatment of animals. We're calling on everyone to do their part by not buying a ticket to a place like SeaWorld. Meanwhile, those last six whales are settling into their new homes. Still confined, but their futures far more certain. Cameron McIntosh, CBC News, Toronto.

Finally. Hear ye, hear ye. I'm Summer Gillette, your town crier. That, as she made loud and clear, is Summer Galant, Town Cryer for Riverview, New Brunswick, and now off to the World Town Cryer Tournament in the UK, which is kind of amazing because Galant only took up the calling, so to speak, a couple of months ago. I had seen an audition posting for the position, and I was like, yeah, I feel like that's for me. And people who know me would say, yeah, that's the role for summer. And so I went for it and I got it.

Gallant called on her years in theater to quickly prep a video for tournament organizers, and they picked her as one of 25 criers from all over the world. She'll be one of only two women, which Galant admits will be a challenge because the guys, she says, are all really loud. There's a lot of bellowing involved in it. It's kind of hard because I live in an apartment, and so the loud aspect of things might get missed a few times, but I go outside when I can to sort of bellow and figure out.

out how loud I'll be for projecting my voice. There are other Canadians going, including three-time world champion Chris Wyman, who's been a town crier for longer than Galant has been alive. Galant is only 25, the youngest competitor. I think it's going to be tough. I'm definitely young, and everyone else who is competing is quite seasoned in the town crier profession. I'm a little nervous about it, but, you know, I think I bring something to the table.

The tournament starts on September 22nd in Cheshire and lasts three days with parades, various public announcements, and vivid costumes. Galant will be decked out with a tricorn hat and black robe trimmed in red and gold. Her goal is to try to win, but she says she's really going to be there to learn. I don't have a hat on, but here's my attempt. Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye, this has been your will tonight for Tuesday, September 1st. I'm Salima Shivji. Have a good night. go to cbc.ca slash podcasts.