Your World Tonight - Mass stabbing in Manitoba, RFK grilled by senate committee, water bomber orders up, and more

Episode Date: September 4, 2025

Hollow Water First Nation in Manitoba is mourning the death of an 18-year-old, who was killed in a mass stabbing by her brother this morning. Another seven people from the community were injured. We��ll have the latest details.Vaccines were front and centre as a U.S. senate committee grilled Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Senators asked about his decisions to replace all expert members of a vaccine advisory panel, and to fire the head of the CDC just a few months into her tenure.The global demand for water bombers to fight fires is soaring. Production of a Canadian-made superscooper is ramping up after a hiatus lasting nearly a decade. But each plane takes time to build, and the first 22 are already spoken for. Which means… Canada won’t be getting one for quite a while.Plus: Canadians missing after Lisbon funicular crash, TIFF opening, the fashion world remembers Giorgio Armani, and more.

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A Manitoba First Nation in shock after a mass stabbing that left a young woman and the suspect dead, the premier has called the police officer who stopped the suspect a hero. Welcome to Your World tonight. I'm Susan Bonner. It is Thursday, September 4th, just before 6 p.m. Eastern, also on the podcast. It was coming down the hill. Something was wrong with the cable. It lost control, didn't have any braking ability.

When it came around the corner, it crashed into the building. Death from above. We're learning new details on the moment. A finicular car plunged into the streets of Lisbon, leaving 16 dead and dozens injured. Portuguese investigators are scouring the scene amid a day of morning. It is a horrific attack that has left a Manitoba community shattered. A young man carried out a mass stabbing on the hollow water First Nation.

His 18-year-old sister is dead. Eight others are injured. Some fighting for their life in hospital. Cameron McIntosh is following the story. and joins me now. Cam, walk us through the events and what we know so far. Well, right now the information from the RCMP is very basic, but around 345 AM calls came into 9-1-1 about an assault in the community. At 553, there was a report of a stabbing. RCMP later found eight people injured in three different parts of the community. One of them,

an 18-year-old woman, has died. Now, she is the sister of the suspected attacker, 26-year-old Tyrone Samard, who was also killed when he fled the community in a stolen car and ran into an RCMP SUV responding to the call. As for what motivated the attack, RCMP Commissioner Rob Lassen says it's not clear. The challenge to these types of investigations is the people we need to talk to are undergoing treatment and some severe treatment and care right now. So we are not going to barge in there and try to interview them right now. Meanwhile, an RCMP officer was injured in that collision, Manitoba's premier today, calling her a hero for stopping what he says could have been a killing rampage.

We have some of our fellow Manitobans in hospital consoling their loved ones who were the victims of something terrible here, one of whom is a police officer who are still finding out the details of what happened. We don't know the specifics yet, we will in the coming days, I'm sure, but she stopped a man on a rampage. It's on behalf of the province of Manitoba, I thank her. And Cam, what do we know about any community reaction? Now, Hollowater is a small community, only about 1,000 people, two hours northeast of Winnipeg.

This clearly has people very upset asking a lot of questions. Christy Williams' father was one of the people attacked. She says he was stabbed in his own bed. The community is all shaken up from it. It's not something that happens in Hollow Water. Like, Hollow Water isn't about this. This isn't Hollow Water. Like, this is scary for everybody in Hollow Water.

Meanwhile, the Chief of Hollow Water is calling this a tragic and horrific day. Again, everyone asking questions. Police say they're continuing to investigate and that there's no further risk to the community. Thank you, Cam. You're welcome. The CBC's Cameron McIntosh in Winnipeg. The federal government's ascending strong. signals today. Canadians may be in for some tough times. The Prime Minister and his cabinet

are in Toronto ahead of a fall session in Parliament. They call the months ahead urgent as they look for ways to counter a sputtering economy and the effects of a U.S. trade war. Tom Perry has details. What our government is really focused right now is obviously on the economy. So we need to protect jobs and we need to create some at the same time. Industry Minister Melanie Jolie repeating what's become the government's mantra, a pledge to build Canada's economy by investing in infrastructure, defense, and housing at a time when the country's largest trading partner, the U.S. shuts itself off from the rest of the world. The world is being redistributed in economic blocks right now. And that is why for countries

that believe in free trade, there's a space. We can work with others. Jolie spent part of the summer in Europe, seeking to boost trade with countries like Sweden, Finland and Germany, part of the government's efforts to spread its net wider and rely less on the U.S. diversifying trade is a long-term project, and for now Canada can't afford to ignore its powerful neighbor and eccentric president. So while Carney and his cabinet look for new markets for Canadian goods, they're also looking to make peace with Washington. So that remains obviously a key focus of our efforts, the prime... Dominic LeBlanc, Minister for Canada-U.S. trade, has been in regular contact with Howard Lutnik, Donald Trump's Commerce Secretary,

but has so far not been able to reach a deal to lift or reduce U.S. tariffs on Canadian steel, autos and aluminum. But that work continues, and we'll continue to stay on that work until we get to a better circumstance than we are standing here right now. The other focus at this meeting has been the upcoming federal budget, which the Prime Minister says will be about both investments, and austerity. Finance Minister Francof Philippe Champagne today revealing few details about how the government plans to strike that balance, but warning it will require some difficult decisions. I want to be straight with Canadians. Prime Minister was straight yesterday. Tough choices ahead, but, you know, ambition when it comes to investment, rigor when it comes to spending. Watching all of this, opposition leader Pierre Palliev, who dismisses the government's

pledges as empty talk, painting a colorful image. of what he sees as bloated government spending. The government has become a big fat man and the private sector is a skinny man carrying that fat man up an increasingly steep hill. A preview, perhaps, of what Canadians can expect when Parliament resumes later this month and the government's big plans collide with raw politics.

Tom Perry, CBC News, Toronto. Prime Minister Carney is sending his parliamentary secretary to China with Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe. Mo is leading a trade mission to get Beijing to scrap its canola tariffs. Mo says given the trade war happening with the United States, Canada needs to maintain other markets. These Chinese tariffs, whether it be on seed, whether it be on canola oil, canola meal, as well as peas, pork, and more broadly on Canadian seafood, they need to be addressed and they need to be addressed not only by the provinces of Saskatchewan, but by the nation of Canada.

China hit Canadian canola seed with a nearly 76% tariff last month. It's widely seen as a response to Canada's 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles. Coming right up, new survivor accounts of a terrifying day in Lisbon as Portuguese investigators examine the finicular crash that killed 16 people. And RFK Jr. clashes with U.S. senators, and defends his record in a chaotic Washington hearing. Later, we'll have this story. I'm Ely Glastner in Toronto,

where TIF is celebrating 50 years of film fans and red carpets. The prices are certainly climbing up, and I think that the price point is arguably getting out of hand. But are the price of tickets changing a film festival that prides itself on public screenings? I'll have a look at TIF and the competition ahead on Your World Tonight. Portugal is observing a day of morning after yesterday's deadly tram derailment in a historic Lisbon neighborhood. Officials say there's a high possibility two of the 16 people killed are Canadian.

Another Canadian may be among the more than 20 injured. Chris Brown has the latest on the investigation from Lisbon. Portuguese investigators spent this day combing through the mangled metal and chassis of one of Lisbon's distinctive yellow finicular railway cars known as the Gloria Lyft. For 140 years, it shuttled tourists and commuters on its brief but steep and windy route through Lisbon's historic cobblestone streets until dinner time Wednesday when it flew off its tracks at high speed, crushing the more than 40 people on board. This is one of the greatest human tragedies in our recent.

history, said Prime Minister Luis Montenegro. Authorities haven't confirmed anything definitive yet, but it appears the thick cable that ran under the tracks and controlled the railcar's speed snapped. British tourist James Nolan saw it happen.

It was coming down the hill. Something was wrong with the cable. It lost control, didn't have any braking ability. When it came around the corner, it crashed into the building. The cable was connected to a twin rail car at the bottom. of the Gloria route. When one car went up the hill, the other went down, with their weight,

supposed to balance each other out. But last night, the rail car at the bottom stayed put. And Abdel Estevesh, who was on board, saw the tram further up the hill, careening towards him. I shouted to my wife, he said, we're all going to die here, because it was moving at such high speed. People say it was negligence. But it could not have been, said resident Elaine Chavish. I've been living here for 20 years and I've always seen them maintaining it.

This was an accident. There is little known about the victims other than that they came from all over the world. Global Affairs Canada says two Canadians are missing, with Portuguese officials saying there is a high possibility they are among the victims. One Canadian may also be wounded. Decretamus three days of luto municipal. Lisbon's mayor, Carlos Modash, says there will be three days of morning, and the other two fornicular railways in the city will be closed until there are answers about this accident.

We're currently gathering all of the information we need to determine who's responsible, he said. The brakeman on the railcar was among the dead, but police have eyewitnesses and remains of the crushed rail car, so they're expecting to have some preliminary answers on Friday. Chris Brown, CBC News, Lisbon. America's top health official Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is defending his leadership after a combative Senate hearing in Washington. He was grilled on his health care policies, including his shifting approach to vaccines

and recent dismissals at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Chris Reyes walks us through the heated testimony. We are the sickest country in the world. That's why we have to fire people and see these. Amidst that overhaul at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Confusion around Vaccine Guidelines, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. mounted a fiery defense of his recent actions as the country's top public health official, including firing the CDC's director last week. In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Susan Monares, wrote that Kennedy was deliberately weakening the country's public health system and vaccine. protections. So you're saying she's lying. Yes. RFK Jr. faced a grilling from senators on both

sides of the aisle looking for clarity following his sweeping changes around vaccine guidelines and development, including pulling the COVID-19 vaccine from the CDC's recommendations for healthy kids and pregnant women. Bill Cassidy, a Republican senator and doctor, leveled this accusation against Kennedy. I would say effectively we're denying people vaccine. I Senator Catwell. I get wrong. Democratic senators piled on even harder, almost all of them on the panel,

calling for the secretary's resignation. You are perpetrating hoaxes. You as this Secretary of Health, so you're undermining the whole health care delivery system. I hope that you will tell the American people how many preventable child deaths are an acceptable sacrifice for enacting an agenda that I think is,

fundamentally cruel and defies common sense. Look, you are putting America's babies' health at risk, America's seniors' health at risk, all Americans' health at risk, and you should reside. These are far from the first calls for RFK Jr. to go. On Wednesday, more than a thousand former and current employees of the agency he leads signed a letter demanding he stepped down. During the hearing, doctors and advocates gathered outside the Capitol

to voice their own protest against the secretary. Brad Woodhouse is the executive director of Protect Our Care. We have more chaos in our health care system than I've ever seen in my lifetime. I think more chaos in our health care system than we've ever seen. The combative hearing lasted more than three hours, with the secretary standing his ground, insisting he and the Trump administration are overhauling a broken health care system. Chris Reyes, CBC News, New York.

French President Emmanuel Macron says 26 countries have pledged to deploy troops to Ukraine as a reassurance force once fighting with Russia ends. Canada has said it will provide military assistance, but there are no specifics yet on what that would be. Macron hosted a meeting of 30 leaders today on how to provide security to Ukraine. Russia has said foreign troops inside Ukraine would be unacceptable to Moscow. NATO Secretary-General Mark Ruta says it doesn't matter what Russia wants. Why are we interested in what Russia thinks about troops in Ukraine?

Russia has nothing to do with this. Ukraine is a sovereign nation. If Ukraine wants to have security guarantee forces in Ukraine to support the peace, it's up to them. Nobody else can decide about it. And I think we really have to stop making Putin too powerful. European leaders at the meeting said Russia's role is to end the fighting. Air quality across western Canada is not good. Choking wildfire

smoke has forced millions of people under advisories or warnings. As crews grapple to fight the blazes, the need for more Canadian water bombers is spiking. The manufacturer is trying to meet the demand. But as Josh McLean explains, we may not see new planes in our skies anytime soon. The green skeleton of an airplane wing spans the floor of a factory near Calgary, white-coated workers carefully assembling each component, a painstaking project that will take years to complete. Today we're standing in what we call Calgary 3, which is the assembly of the wing and the aerostructure, the fuselage of the De Havelin, Canada 515.

That's Neil Sweeney, an executive with the Havilland Aircraft of Canada. The company acquired the design from Bombardier when the rival manufacturer, manufacturer halted production in 2015. After years of planning and preparation, a new version of the iconic yellow and red plane, popularly known as the Super Scooper, is once again being built. It's really exciting for us to be bringing the aircraft back into production. On a planet rapidly warmed by climate change, the aircraft is a hot commodity. Mike Flanagan studies wildfires and climate at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops. We expect more fire in the future, more intense fire in the future, which is difficult, challenging, to impossible to extinguish some of

these fires if they get large. So we need a strategy to deal with this new reality. Countries around the world, including Canada, are looking to bolster their firefighting capacity, and that means updating or expanding their water bomber fleet. For many of them, the D.HC. 515 is a first choice. John Graddock teaches aviation management at McGill University in Montreal. That's why they've been very popular in Canada because of the amount of lakes that we have. They've been very popular in New York and you have the Mediterranean. So in this airplane could do both salt as well as freshwater.

Manitoba and Ontario have both announced plans to buy the bombers. And the federal government said earlier this year it's considering the creation of a national water bomber fleet. But they could be waiting a while. The first 22 planes to come off the line are already spoken for, purchased by European countries like Greece, France, and Spain. That order won't be filled until 2030 at the earliest. We need those bombers today.

Too long, according to Mike Flanagan. The wire bombers can buy you time, especially when the conditions are extreme, like we've been seeing, hot, dry, and windy. They buy you that time to get a handle on the fire. So that's the best use, and we have a shortage. Sweeney says De Havilland is watching the market closely. It really comes down to orders. What you don't want to do is flex up and down and have your supply chain and your personnel disrupted.

But if the demand is there, then we'll ramp up to meet the demand sooner rather than later. At this point, the company anticipates building as many as 350 aircraft, while the threat of wildfires looms larger each year. Josh McLean, CBC News, Calgary. Police have released 16 people arrested yesterday in Rich Mound, Saskatchewan. RCMP conducted a dramatic early morning raid on a building where they have been living for two years. Among them was Romana Didalo, a woman who calls herself the Queen of Canada. She is known to promote QAnon conspiracy theories. Police say they found 13 imitation, semi-automatic handguns and ammunition in their search.

No charges have been laid. Two people have since been re-arrested, but police provided no other details. This is Your World Tonight from CBC News. If you want to make sure you stay up to date and 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 kicks off its 50th edition today, bringing world-class stars and cinema to this city.

But this year, the milestone celebration isn't without controversy. Eli Glasner breaks it down for us. After summer of spectacle, September brings film fans a buffet of Oscar contenders from George Clooney. You know how difficult it is to be yourself? Do you try it? Playing an aging movie star in Jay Kelly to Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein and Jeremy Allen White as the boss, Bruce Springsteen. How's that sound? Looks about right.

But as Tiff turns 50, the world premieres for those films are happening in New York, Venice, and Telluride. Matt Bellany is the host of the Hollywood podcast, The Town. Most of the big movies are choosing to debut at Venice and Telluride. And then, if they can, they will go to Toronto. Bellany says, amongst other factors, the crowds and critics at Venice are just kinder. You can get a standing ovation, which is then dutifully recorded by the press

and pumped out to everybody who cares about this stuff. What still sets Toronto apart is that it's open to the public and boasts a strong track record. From Slumdog Millionaire to Green Book, six movies that won the People's Choice Award went on to win Best Picture. But it's getting harder each year for the taste makers of TIF to even buy tickets, critic Rachel Ho.

I mean, the prices are certainly climbing up, and I think that the price point is arguably getting out of hand. I mean, especially for the premier events, it's, you're talking over $100 now to watch a film. Even before the festival opened, Tiff made headlines when it uninvited the film The Road Between Us, the ultimate rescue from Canadian filmmaker Barry Average. The documentary focuses on a retired Israeli general who went to, to save his family during the October 7th attacks. TIF originally uninvited the film due to concerns over protests and legal clearance of footage. A few days later, the film was invited back, and TIF CEO Cameron Bailey made a statement.

I want to apologize for any hurt, frustration, or disappointment that our communication about the film has caused. But with world premieres for potential crowd-pleasers like the new Knives Out movie and Channing Tatum's Roof Man, Ho thinks Tiff could turn things around. It's kind of a redemption year for them, and I think it's perfect that it's on the 50 year. Who are you? I'm a mog. Half man, half dog.

Gus Polinsky, Polka King of the Midwest. The fest opens with the Ryan Reynolds produced documentary about Toronto's very own, John Candy. Eli Glastner, CBC News, Toronto. He was no stranger to red carpets in Hollywood himself. Legendary fashion designer, Giorgio Armani, has died at age 91. Starting out in the industry as a window dresser for a department store in Milan, Armani built a multi-billion dollar lifestyle empire based on accessible elegance. Jamie Strassan looks at his legacy.

For half a century, the name Giorgio Armani has been synonymous with high fashion, simple elegance, whether on the runway or in the boardroom. He stayed true to his aesthetic. He didn't change. with the times. This wasn't a man who was going to follow trends. Imran Ahmed, CEO of the Business of Fashion Trade Publication, interviewed the Italian icon a number of times and describes him as an exacting figure, intimately involved in every aspect of his brand. He was genuinely a pioneering designer and entrepreneur, someone who built his own business, control his own business on the creative and on the business side right up until his final moments. His trademark

loose-tailored suits for men and women, and reliance on simple colors like blue and gray, made his couture collections can't miss events. But it was the Hollywood connection that magnified his brand globally, says Canadian fashion journalist Jeannie Becker. Any celebrity who has ever worn anything Armani on the red carpet always gets the accolades.

I don't think there's ever been someone voted on the worst dress list wearing Armani, that's for sure. Becker points. out the red carpet culture where stars like Beyonce talk about who they are wearing didn't exist before Armani. The first time I wore Armani, I was maybe 16, and Destiny's Child, we were so, we thought we were just fabulous because we had on Armani, and it's a girl's dream. Born in Italy in 1934, Armani initially studied to be a doctor before working in a Milan

department store. It wasn't until the mid-70s when he and his partners sold their car using the proceeds. needs to launch the Armani brand that last year brought in more than $2 billion in revenue. To maintain and own and run a business of that scale independently, I don't know any other fashion designer in the world ever who's managed to do that. The Armani brand transcends runways with off-the-rack stores and shopping malls around the world and beauty products widely sold in stores like Sephora. Armani told Siennes recently his longevity and success were rooted in simple principles.

I believe that the hand of a human being is very different from the key on a computer. I am very loyal to my roots, which is from pure design, a pencil and a sketchbook. On the eve of the company's 50th anniversary, the 91-year-old was said to be working right up until the end, adding to a fashion legacy often copied but never duplicated. Jamie Strash and CBC News, Toronto. Finally, they come out in full force. It seems like anything on the table, whether it be a water, a sweet,

or anything of that nature, brings them out. And there's really no line of defense. If you think there are a lot of wasps around this year, you are not alone. As far away as the UK, the numbers are soaring. That's blamed on a hotter, drier spring and summer. And while there's no official Canadian tally yet, The same conditions have persisted in much of this country.

And that has businesses like Ottawa's Susie Q. Donuts declaring war. We've got tons of traps. Like we've done every type of solution. Like we buy traps, we make traps. Yeah, but they just keep showing up. And no matter how many we kill, they just more and more show up. So why are we pestered so little in July and so much in early September? It's simple, according to Tom, on a furcoe of...

Agriculture and Agra Food Canada, responsibility for these royal pains lies with the Queen, the only colonists to survive the previous winter. They'll establish colonies, and they'll just produce workers throughout the spring and summer, and this is sort of when they reach their peak and size,

and now you have loads of workers around looking for food. As you glare at the striped intruders interrupting your outdoor picnic or patio pint, Anaferko wants you to look at the big picture. We need these beadyy, buzzkills. They're eating a lot of other insects that are feeding on our food crops, our fruits and vegetables, so they have an important role in pest control. So as we look to enjoy the final two and a half weeks of summer, the best advice seems to be patience. Enjoy the

outdoors, realizing you may have company. If it takes the sting out of it, just remember they'll be gone by the first sign of frost. Thank you for joining us. This has been your world tonight for Thursday, September 4th. I'm Susan Bonner. Talk to you again.