Your World Tonight - Ken Dryden dead at 78, TIFF opening weekend, The first Millennial Saint, and more

Episode Date: September 6, 2025

Canadians are remembering hockey legend Ken Dryden, who died yesterday at the age of 78. During his career, Dryden was a Hall of Famer - with six Stanley Cups under his goalie pads - and was a key part of the Montreal Canadiens in the 1970s. He was also a lawyer, author, politician AND NHL executive. We'll take a look back on his long and storied career.Also: The Toronto International Film Festival kicked off this week for its 50th anniversary. Festival goers are being treated to a slate of films from all over the world - as well as some standouts shot right here in Canada. You'll hear about the state of the festival, and some of the most anticipated releases.And: He was the teenager known as God's Influencer. Now, he's about to be canonized by the Pope. We'll take you to Rome to hear about the miracles - and the websites - that led to the first Millenial Saint.Plus: A new Inuktitut translation app powered by AI, South Korean workers arrested in an immigration raid, and more.

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He enjoyed the game, loved his teammates, loved the players who he played with. But that said, I mean, it really just kind of set him up for a life beyond the game. Remembering a hockey legend. Ken Dryden has died at age 78. We look back at the Hall of Fame goalie's career and life beyond the crease. Also on the podcast, it's the most wonderful time of year for film fans. Tiff is underway. We've got all the best buzz.

And speaking of buzz... Oh, yeah, I drink, like quite a few energy drinks. Actually, like two to three a day. Like, I don't sleep that often, so I feel like it really just helps me, like, throughout the day. As Britain considers banning the sale of high caffeine energy drinks to children, we hear from Canadian kids about just how many they're putting away and what a doctor recommends. His career on the ice was remarkable.

A Hall of Famer with six Stanley Cups under his goalie pads. Ken Dryden was a key part of the Montreal Canadiens' 1970s heyday. He was also a lawyer, an author, politician, NHL executive. Dryden died of cancer on Friday at age 78. Philip Lee Shenock looks at his long and storied career and the memories being shared today. And a signalating play by Dryden. Ask any hockey fan and many will have memories of Ken Dryden the goalie, who played eight NHL seasons through the 1970s,

propelling the Montreal Canadiens to six Stanley Cup championships. Then there's a 1972 Summit series with Dryden and Nett for Team Canada against the Soviet Union Red Army team. And Dryden came up for the dazzling stage. It's a very, very broad canvas on which he painted his life. But Dryden's friend and hockey historian Dave Stubbs says he was so much more than a hockey star. Hockey was an important part of his life, but it was just part of his life, and it really just set the stage. Never just a goalie, Dryden earned a law degree from McGill University while playing hockey,

practice law, and authored books. Former Canadian's teammate, Serse Sivard, says when he was drafted at 23, Dryden was a different kind of hockey player. The guy that wants to change things for everybody, wants to make things better for everybody. It was never a dolly with Ken Dryden. He always had the project. After retiring as a player, he continued his career with the NHL as president of the Toronto Maple Leafs until 2004 when he entered politics. elected as a liberal MP in the Toronto riding of York Central, he served as the Minister of Social Development. Ken Dryden was an absolute gentle giant.

High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Ralph Goodale, served as a federal liberal cabinet minister with Dryden, who he says got the provinces to agree to a national child care program. People said it was an impossible assignment, but Ken Dryden, the incredible player, He actually got all of those agreements done. Dryden was later named an officer of the Order of Canada. Politicians have posted their tributes to Dryden,

the hockey legend and public servant. Prime Minister Mark Carney posting, few Canadians have given more or stood taller for our country. Governor General Mary Simon said Dryden had many important achievements on and off the ice. Broadcaster and friend Steve Paykin said Dryden also campaigned to make hockey safer. It's what he did off the ice and what he did to try to clean up hockey. To his last breath, that was an issue that just absolutely animated his life.

Dryden died Friday after a battle with cancer at home surrounded by family. Philip Lyshanock, CBC News, Toronto. South Korean officials are vowing to support hundreds of their expats detained by American immigration authorities. About 475 workers were arrested at a Hyundai car battery facility on 3rd. Thursday. The timing? Less than two weeks after the automaker pledged 26 billion U.S. dollars in U.S. investments. Chris Reyes has more on the operation and what it means for relations between Washington and Seoul. At Hyundai's car plant in Georgia near Savannah, Korean nationals were loaded into buses by U.S. immigration officers on Thursday. The raid? The largest operation on a single site, according to Stephen Shrank, U.S. homeland, investment. While we were on the premises, we did encounter many hundreds of individuals of those, as I previously mentioned, 475 were illegally present in the United States or in violation of their presence in the United States.

Shranks at Thursday's raid was a result of a multi-month criminal investigation. Evidence from that was used to obtain a search warrant. Homeland Security Investigations in a coordination with our law enforcement partners executed a judicial search warrant as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into allegations of unlawful employment practices and serious federal crimes. The Trump administration has made good on its promise to crack down on illegal immigration, carrying out raids across the country. Seoul responded earlier yesterday with the country's foreign minister issuing a warning. Minister Cho-Hion said South Korea's president urged the U.S. not to unjustly infringe on the rights of South Korean nationals and investors.

On the arrests, President Donald Trump said the immigration agency was conducting business as usual. I would say that they were illegal aliens and ICE was just doing its job. The carmaker also issued a statement, Hyundai promising to investigate the matter. Ken Cucinelli is a former deputy with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security under Trump. He says it's possible the company was not aware of workers allegedly in the country illegally. If the people on the other side are using false documents and are essentially signing off on deceitful statements of fact, there's nothing the employer is in a position to do to vet that. The raid comes following a recent visit from South Korea's president to the White House,

where companies like Hyundai made pledges to invest more money into the U.S. President Lee J. Myeong has also ordered his ambassadors in Washington to address the problem, while his foreign minister has signaled a visit to the U.S. to deal with the matter directly. Chris Reyes, CBC News, New York. Air Canada flight attendants have overwhelmingly rejected a tentative deal with their employer. The union representing the workers says 99% of members voted against it. But there will not be a new strike. Both sides agreed in advance there would be no labor disruptions.

Air Canada and QP also previously agreed that if the agreement wasn't ratified, wage issues would go to mediation and to arbitration if necessary. More than 10,000 flight attendants went on a three-day strike last month, defying a federal order to return to work. Britain is moving to ban energy drink sales to kids in England under age 16, citing health risks, and growing popularity with that age group.

Health Canada says its current rules, like warning labels and marketing limits, are enough, even as more Canadian kids reach for the high caffeine drinks. Alison Northcott reports. I do like energy drinks, yes. Honestly, it just makes me feel hype. And monster, I can't like that taste of it is banging. Outside this Toronto high school, some teens say energy drinks are a regular part of their days. Yeah, I just had a rebel.

I was tired, and I was in class. and I needed to focus and lock in, so. Oh, yeah, I drink, like, quite a few energy drinks, actually, like, two to three a day. Like, I don't sleep that often, so I feel like it really just helps me, like, throughout the day. In Canada, anyone of any age can buy energy drinks at grocery stores, convenient stores, or gas stations. But in the UK, some supermarkets have voluntarily stopped selling highly caffeinated energy drinks to kids. And now UK regulators are considering a full ban on their sale for those under 16,

citing negative impacts on children's physical and mental health, sleep quality and education. We're doing a short-sharp, 12-week consultation with businesses. West Streeting is the UK Health Secretary. Learning from those retailers that are already doing it about how it's working in practice so that we can expand to all retailers doing this with them rather than to them. There's been a rapid increase in a number of teenagers who consume energy drinks on a daily basis. Pediatrician Olivier Drin at Montreal's St. Justine Hospital says when kids use caffeine, it can lead to addiction, anxiety, and in some cases, heart problems.

We don't know whether there's a safe level of caffeine that can be consumed by younger children or even teenagers. He says Canadian regulations on energy drinks are too lax. Do you think that Canada should follow the UK's lead? I think that would be a right public health move. I think as a clinician, as public health specialist, I would be in favor. of this, I don't really see a downside of doing so. Health Canada doesn't allow the sale of energy drinks with more than 180 milligrams of caffeine per serving, and the drinks must have cautionary statements on their

labels, warning they're not recommended for people under 14, pregnant or breastfeeding, or those sensitive to caffeine. Oh, there's a caution here. There's a caution on it. But these teens say those warnings don't stand out. For those under 14 years old. 14 years old. You wouldn't notice that.

I could not see this for anything. You wouldn't notice it. No. I think they should make the caution bigger. Way bigger. The Canadian Beverage Association says its members comply with Health Canada's regulations and that it has a voluntary restriction on promoting energy drinks to children. And they will look you in the eye and tell you that they don't market these products to kids.

But University of Waterloo researcher David Hammond says ad campaigns reach a lot of young people anyway. And then their dominant campaigns are using cartoons, frames. is like it'll give you wings and sponsoring sort of BMX and extreme sports. We've done research with children and kids. They tell us that they not only see these ads, but they think they're targeted at children and youth. Health Canada says it has no plans to update energy drink policies or regulations. Alison Northcott, CBC News, Montreal.

Still ahead, he was the teenager known as God's Influencer. Now he's about to be canonized by the Pope. We'll take you to Rome to hear about the miracles and the websites that led to the first millennial saint. That's coming up on your world tonight. In Afghanistan, aid agencies are getting a clearer picture of the scale of destruction caused by three earthquakes in the past week. Taliban officials have confirmed more than 20,

200 deaths in two eastern provinces, more than 3,600 people injured. John Aleph is the World Food Program's country director in Afghanistan. The devastation is extreme. Whole communities have been raised to the ground. Houses are gone. People have lost their possessions. At the moment, there are areas that we just haven't got access to because we don't have air support.

We don't have helicopter support. In the next few days, we hope that changes, because it's only with helicopters that we can get to some of those remote villages being cut off and clearly we're in a race against time. Canada is providing $3 million in humanitarian aid. The bulk of that money will go to the Red Cross and World Food Program.

Heavy monsoon rains are battering South Asia. The downpour is harsher than usual and causing floods and landslides across the region. In Pakistan, nearly 900 people are dead. Over 300,000 forced to flee their homes. In India, dozens have died in just the past few days. As Ishaan Gareg reports, the floodwaters have now reached the capital, New Delhi. The Yamuna River is overflowing, sending water into homes in New Delhi and forcing families out.

We've been living on the pavement for four days, says Mamta Devi. Devi's family are boatmen, but she says this flood is making them rethink their lives. The government should offer us jobs that can allow us to move away, she says. For now, their only hope is one of many government relief camps erected across the capital. At one camp, half a dozen people crowd into a single tent. More than 10,000 residents have been moved into the camps from floodplains and low-lying areas. People are barely managing. Sumit Sharma is a local volunteer.

He believes until the authorities redevelop the riverbanks and improved drainage, floods will continue wreaking havoc here. Meanwhile, cloud bursts have triggered flash floods across northern India. Dozens have died in Himachal Pradesh, Jambu and Kashmir and Punjab. While in Pakistan's Punjab, an estimated hundreds of people have already died. And the floods are also threatening to devastate the economy of the province, which is known as Pakistan's breadbasket. Experts say climate change is worsening South Asia's monsoon rains. Some states are getting 7 to 10 times their normal rain. Lakshay is the co-founder of a climate advocacy group called Eco Reform.

Cutting emissions, he says, is critical but might not be enough. Adaptation remains just as urgent because, warming is already locked in in a way. So, yeah, it will keep testing us for years ahead, I think. A World Bank report says low and middle income countries need to invest more than $800 billion to make their cities climate resilient. It will include transitioning to green energy, better flood protection systems, and revitalizing natural flood plains.

Official say steps are being taken in that direction. They are now installing better warning and monitoring. systems. But for those stranded by the floods, climate change isn't a distant threat. It's real and it's already at their doorstep. Ashan Gerg for CBC News, New Delhi. You're listening to Your World Tonight from CBC News. And if you want to make sure you never miss one of our episodes, follow us on Spotify, Apple, wherever you get your podcasts. Just find the follow button and lock us in. The Toronto International Film Festival has kicked off.

Festival goers are being treated to a slate of films from all over the world, as well as some standouts shot right here in Canada. CBC Senior Entertainment Reporter Eli Glastner is covering the festival for us. Eli, this is a big year for TIF, 50th anniversary. But how would you describe the state of Canada's largest film festival? at this time. To be honest, TIF has been through some rough spots, right? The pandemic, the strikes, loss of a major sponsor. Movie theaters in general still trying to get back to the glory days of 2018. But I think the challenge for TIF is programming. And really what I'm talking about

are getting those world premieres. The past couple years, again and again, major Oscar contenders are going to Venice. They're going to the Telly Ride Film Festival. They're going to the New York film festival. So Smashing Machine with Dwayne the Rock Johnson in a serious acting role, Frankenstein from Guillermo del Toro. They're playing Tiff next week, but went to Venice first. Matt Bellany is the host of the Hollywood podcast The Town, and he told me, the crowd is very enthusiastic and you can get a standing ovation, which is then dutifully recorded by the press. And that's exactly what happened with Dwayne Johnson's movie. You may have seen there were all these reports of a 15 minute standing ovation, the rock, wiping away tears. But people I've talked to say TIF is still

the tastemaker, because when Smashing Machine plays Toronto, it won't be for aristocrats and the media, which is how Bellany described the Venice crowd. In Toronto, you can still just go buy a ticket to a public screening if you can afford one. So the race for the Oscars might start in Venice and can. But Toronto is where we see if these films really play to crowds and if they have the legs to go to the distance. Okay, so it's still worth something in this circuit. You mentioned the race for the Oscars.

Who's running in the race this year? So it's interesting. With Venice nabbing some of the other world premieres, Tiff, it feels like it's leaning into crowd pleasers. Case in point, the third film in a very popular series. The impossible crime. Won't you spy me over? till another year.

For man, a reason. This is the Holy Grail. Yeah, that is a taste of wake-up dead man, a knives-out mystery. Daniel Craig is back. This time we have Milakunis, Josh O'Connor, Kerry Washington, Josh Brolin.

Too many stars for me to mention and not fill up your newscast all coming to Toronto tonight. Another big premiere is Roofman based on the true story of Jeffrey Manchester the rooftop robber who robbed a bunch of McDonald's and hid for six months in a Toys R Us and now he's being played by, of course, Channing Tatum.

Makes sense, sure. It makes sense. I've also been hearing some buzz about Christy. This is a movie about a real boxer starring Sidney Sweeney. She's been under a bit of a cloud of controversy, but is very much here to promote the film. Also, I'm hearing a lot about the Lost Bus, a Matthew McConaughey film,

a bus, 22 kids, in a wildfire. Can you believe it? Oh, Matthew McConaughey. Okay. Lots of Hollywood shine there. What about the Canadian film? Sometimes they get overshadowed by all of that Hollywood glitz and glam? It's true. But I will say, if you look at TIF's opening night, this was one of the strongest in years. We had a documentary about John Candy. Now, it's not a Canadian film per se, but a love letter to this Canadian icon. And then we had premieres of two great Canadian films. Mild End Kicks is the second feature from Chandler LeVac. Imagine almost famous, but set it in Montreal in 2011 from a female point of view.

LeVac has taken her own experiences and channeled it into the story of Grace, who was writing a book in Montreal about Alanis Morissette. How great is that? So the evening started for me with this mixtape, this love. letter to Montreal. And then another big part of TIF tradition is something called Midnight Madness, where these crazy films play at midnight. And this year, the opening film was Nirvana, the band, the show, the movie. Now, this is directed by Matt Johnson. He was the mad genius behind the Blackberry movie. And his style is a mockumentary film style where he

blends the lines of what is real and what is fictional. This is a film about two guys trying to play a show at the Rivoli, a popular Toronto bar to play music, and it is the most Toronto film to have ever Torontoed. I'm going to say that sounds so Toronto, just like the Montreal, and these are so Canadian. It is, like they are not trying to be anything else than what they are. They are playing to the city's strengths.

There are moments in this film with the Rogers Center, with the Sea and Tower. I don't know how they did it, Stephanie. And I kind of don't want to know. And I was at this screening in Toronto at 12.30 in the morning, and it killed. The crowd were screaming. And the thing is, kind of like what you were saying, the through line from both of these films, gone are the days of trying to make our cities look like Chicago and Cleveland.

Montreal is a singular special place. Toronto, embrace it for what it is. These places are critical characters in those films. and at this tiff, the crowd ate it up. Wow, you'll love to see it and love to chat. Thanks, Eli. My pleasure. That's CBC's senior entertainment reporter Eli Glastner in Toronto. There is a new Inuctitude Translation app in the Works,

and it's powered by artificial intelligence. It's called Angai. Its creators hope it inspires other indigenous groups to make their mark in the AI space. Samuel Watt has that story. We are stuck again in Clyde River. What you heard there is artificial intelligence in action. AI translated that English phrase to Enochitut. Angai Indigenous Languages Labs based in Ikalawit has been collecting Enokitut text and audio.

They're using that to create a mostly video-based translation app to rollouts within the next six months. It would act as a plug-in to existing apps or websites like YouTube. Kurt Idesiac, Angai's founder and CEO, says he doesn't see much Enuit's representation in the AI space. The future of AI in Inuit will be for Inuit made by Inuit for the benefit of all Inuit. He says the app isn't intended to replace human interpreters and knowledge. Rather, it's an extra tool for people to learn more Inoctitude at their own pace. But he does worry about data sovereignty and who gets to own that information. He wants to see policymakers invest in Inuit innovation and not give Indigenous people's intellectual property to big tech companies for free.

What I would request policymakers and governments that you invest and protect IP that belong to Indigenous people, specifically for us, Inuit. Mohammed Abdul-Majid shares Ediziyah's concerns. The language and machine learning expert at the University of British Columbia says there must be sufficient training and education around the technologies. Above all, it should be led by members of the communities it's intended to serve. How do they are going to be collected? In what ways they are going to be used now and possibly in the future. The National Research Council has also undertaken numerous AI indigenous language projects. They include tools and schools and digitizing the Nunavut Legislative Assembly scripts.

It just makes language learning a bit more accessible for folks. Evan Lay is an indigenous engagement advisor with the council. He reflects on his own experience with his own language of the Red River Métis. I frequently talk with my cousins and family relatives about learning machif and utilizing it in our day-to-day lives more. And that has been really wonderful and we've been able to do that because of innovations in language learning. Etiziac hopes other indigenous companies can take inspiration from Angai's endeavors. And really to show like if we could do it, they could do it too. so that communities can harness the power of AI for their own good.

Samuel Watch, CBC News, Ihollowich. the Armani Theatre, to pay their respects to one of Italy's most famous fashion designers. Giorgio Armani died Thursday at the age of 91. His body is lying in state this weekend. Armani was the sole owner of his fashion house for five decades, known for overseeing every detail of his collections and business. Employees say he treated everyone like equals. Armani will be buried Monday at a private funeral in Milan, while the city holds a public day of mourning. So as Milan honors Armani, Vatican City is honoring a teenager. Carlo Acutis was just 15 when he died of leukemia in 2006.

His tomb, where he lies, dressed in sneakers and a track jacket, is a tribute to the young tech whiz. It's not the typical look for a Catholic saint, but he's about to become the first millennial. one. And as Megan Williams reports from Rome, that takes a couple of miracles, too. Pope Francis announced his plan to canonize Carlo Acuti's last fall, but he died a week before the April ceremony could take place. Now his successor, Pope Leo, will preside over the event on Sunday, his first time leading a canonization, with tens of thousands expected to fill

St. Peter Square. Akutis' road to sainthood has been carefully guided. Some might say shepherded by his mother, Antonio Salzano Akutis. Carlo was an ordinary child like everybody. But she says the key distinction... ...was the fact that he opened the door of his heart to Jesus. Now, pieces of that heart, literally, have been turned into relics. Akutis was born in London, grew up near Milan,

and taught himself computer coding. which he put to use building websites for his parish and the wider church. His spiritual model was St. Francis of Assisi, a mystic who renounced wealth for a life of poverty. Before Akutis died, he asked to be buried near the saint. And that's where he lies today in Assisi, entombed in glass, part casket, part sci-fi space pod, dressed in jeans and sneakers, with a silicone mask. that makes him look more like a kid who pulled an all-nighter surfing the web than a saint. Sanhood is for everybody. This is the gospel who says this.

It generally does require a couple of miracles, though. In his case, two people inexplicably healing from a rare disease and a brain hemorrhage. Now, a miracle in the Catholic Church does not mean that the person who was a saint created the miracle, but merely that people on earth were asking God for help and asking this person who they think was a saint who was in heaven with God to kind of bring attention to their cause and cause a miracle to happen. Says longtime Vatican expert Josh Mecklewee. Saints don't have to live extraordinary lives or have changed the course of history either,

says National Catholic reporters Christopher White. You can find a patron saint for almost anything. A patron saint for someone with sore throats. A patron saint for someone who's lost their keys. White says, behind every saint is... A lot of lobbying. Years of dedication by families, parishes, or religious orders. not to mention friends in high places, and a lot of coin to keep the cause alive.

It's just a matter of who lands at the Vatican's Dicastry for the causes of the saints, and it doesn't happen without friends in high places and often money. Tomorrow, Carlo Acuti's mother and admirers will see their years of effort pay off. As this mostly ordinary teen who died nearly 20 years ago, now being dubbed God's influencer, is officially canon. sliding into the celestial lineup with Mother Teresa and finding a spot not far from St. Francis of Assisi himself. Megan Williams, CBC News, Rome.

Look up here, I'm in heaven. When David Bowie died of liver cancer in 2016, he definitely wasn't named a saint. He did leave an album, Black Star. meant to be his parting gift to the world. He also left hidden post-it notes, stuck to the walls of a locked room in his New York office for another secret project.

A musical set in 18th century London. According to the BBC, it explores the era's development of art, satire, and its contrast between vibrant society and notorious crime. The main character? Possibly a petty thief called Honest Jack Shepard

and the vigilante who caused his arrest and execution. Bowie called it The Spectator. Starting next week, fans can see those original notes as well as tens of thousands of items from the Bowie Archive. They've been donated

to London's V&A Museum, which has given them a permanent home called the David Bowie Center. It also features guest curated displays, including one from this band, The Last Dinner Party, who have called Bowie an inspiration and got a look at a certain famous red lightning bolt jacket. Oh, my gosh. That's so cool.

I've got goosebumps. There was the Ziggy Stardust album and era that really I came to and thought, yeah, this is what I want to be. This is so sick. Here's more from The Last Dinner Party. This is The Feminine Urge on Your World Tonight. I'm Stephanie Skendaris. Thank you for listening.

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