Your World Tonight - Toronto pride parade, Stubby beer bottles, Canada's teacher shortage and more

Episode Date: June 29, 2025

The streets of Toronto were awash with rainbows and party goers wearing stylish costumes - for Canada's largest Pride celebration. But this year's event, and others like it, are facing ongoing pressure as 2SLGBTQ+ rights come under attack in many parts of the world.Also: It's no secret -- Canadians love their lager. One, long-gone symbol of that Canada's love-affair with beer -- the stubby. The stout, glass bottles once lined the shelves of liquor stores in every city. And in an age of rising trade tensions with the United States - the stubby is being recast as form of economic resistance.And: For many teachers in this country, school's out -- for good. They're leaving the profession in droves, and school boards are scrambling for solutions. But some say the teacher shortage can't be solved until working conditions are fixed. Plus: How IMAX is dominating Hollywood, Ukraine pulls out of an international landmine treaty, and more.

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Proudly out and about in Toronto as Canada's largest pride parade marches through that city, but some major sponsors have pulled their support, so the organization also faces a cash crunch. Also on the podcast, US President Donald Trump makes it clear he will no longer talk trade with Canada until this country's tax on some American tech giants is lifted. And a short and stout symbol of Canadian sovereignty. They see the Americans coming and they knew that they were very interested in entering the lucrative Canadian market and they knew they needed something.

How the stubby beer bottle pushed back on U.S. cultural dominance. No rain but plenty of rainbows in Toronto today, as thousands marched through the city's downtown core waving pride flags. Canada's largest pride parade capped off a month of celebrations, but the annual event celebrating the 2SLGBTQ Plus community is under financial pressure, with some high-profile sponsors withdrawing funding. It could mean changes next year. And as Philip Lee Shanok reports, some are calling for a return to Pride's roots as

a protest. Originally from Sydney, Australia, it's Michelle Green's first time in Toronto. She came for the city's 44th annual Pride parade, now one of the largest in North America. I heard that Toronto is the best celebration of pride in the world. It's Andrew Welch's 25th pride. He's watched it grow in popularity year after year, but some things have endured. The sense of community and the celebration is still here even with the things that are happening around the world. So I'm really, really happy to see that things haven't changed. Yeah.

For Jacques Cutzer, this year with diversity and inclusion programs, under attack led by US President Donald Trump's administration, it feels more important. Because there's people from all over. It just shows us no matter what happens down south, we can all bring people together here. Pride events around the world this weekend took on a tone of defiance as many say anti DEI campaigns erode their hard-fought rights. While Canada, Australia, Brazil and some European countries issued a global statement affirming LGBTQ rights, the US did not sign on. I don't like it one bit. Cindy Keough came from Indianapolis, Indiana, and not just for the Pride celebrations.

I'm actually looking to possibly move to Toronto because the current administration is not okay. In the U.S., some Pride events had a noticeable drop in corporate sponsorships. Chris Piedmont of New York City Pride says it lost about a million dollars Canadian, which meant scaling down some events. You know, we will march on regardless of what we face as a community that will never change.

Just what that looks like might be a little different. In Toronto, about a dozen sponsors including Nissan, Adidas, Home Depot and Google pulled their financial support. But while new sponsors including No Frills and Shoppers Drug Mart stepped up, another shortfall is expected next year. But organizer Kojo Modest says individual donations were strong and that grassroots support was returned to Pride's origins. Pride is equally celebration as it is protest. Pride is rooted in protest and I truly believe that this is an opportunity for us to get our message across in a peaceful manner. He says in his native Grenada homosexuality is illegal and while more than 25,000 people

marched in Toronto's Pride Parade, in Turkey police detained more than 50 people attempting to take part in Istanbul's Pride March. Philip E. Shannok, CBC News, Toronto. Still ahead, kids with different substitute teachers one after another. French classes taught by a non-speaker. And adults without a certification supervising classrooms. Just a few of the run-on effects of a nationwide teacher shortage in Canada.

So what's behind the problem and what are some potential solutions? Later on Your World Tonight. The head of the world's nuclear watchdog says Iran's nuclear program is far from being destroyed. Frankly speaking, one cannot claim that everything has disappeared. Rafael Grossi is the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency. He told CBS News Iran may be able to restart uranium enrichment within months. That is in direct contradiction to Donald Trump's statements that recent U.S. missile strikes completely obliterated Iran's nuclear facilities. It is clear that there has been severe damage, but it's not total damage, first of all. And

secondly, Iran has the capacities there, industrial and technological capacities. So if they so wish, they will be able to start doing this again. Grossi says it is impossible to assess the full damage to the program unless international inspectors are allowed in. This is something Iranian officials have not yet allowed. The federal government is not showing signs that it's rattled by the latest threat from Donald Trump. The U.S. president insists trade talks with Canada are on pause until Ottawa scraps a tax on U.S. tech giants.

The first payments for what's been called the digital services tax are due starting Monday. From Washington, the CBC's Sam Sampson has more on the president's argument and the Canadian response. People don't realize Canada is very nasty to deal with. Sam Sampson has more on the president's argument and the Canadian response. In an interview with Fox News, U.S. President Donald Trump hammered it home. He's not talking trade with Canada right now. There's been things going on that we don't like and things going on where they took advantage. His latest sticking point? The incoming digital services tax.

On Friday, Trump called it a direct and blatant attack on the U.S. and said he was terminating all discussions on trade with Canada. He also threatened Canada with new tariffs. Hopefully we'll be fine with Canada. I love Canada. Frankly, Canada should be the 51st state, okay? It really should because Canada relies entirely on the United States. We don't rely on Canada.

Canada's digital services tax has been on the books since last year. It applies to tech companies that make more than $20 million off Canadian users like Amazon, Google, and Metta. It's a 3% tax retroactive to 2022, meaning the first bill for Americans due Monday would bring in more than $2.5 billion Canadian dollars. Jim Stanford is the director of the Centre for Future Work, a non-partisan labour economics research group.

They make so much money in Canada, paying 3% on that revenue is a very, very small step towards fairness. This abrupt trade talk pause casts doubt on the 30-day timeframe both Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney set to come up with the trade agreement. It was a deal struck during the G7 in Alberta earlier this month. On Sunday, the Prime Minister's office said the Canadian government will continue to engage in these complex negotiations. Concordia University Economics senior lecturer Moshe Lander says the PM is keeping his cool.

I think the fact that we're not hearing similar sorts of concerns out of Canada beyond just their frustration in dealing with Trump is a sign that negotiations are still ongoing and there's nothing to worry about here. Canada is not the only country with a tax like this. Europe has similar levies. Lander says though Trump has expressed frustration with those taxes, he hasn't used them as a negotiation tactic in the same way. The name-calling and the overt sort of attacks on us is really just showing his insecurity about how important Canada truly is to the American economy. The US Secretary of the Treasury said the Trump administration knew this tax was

coming, it just hoped Canada wouldn't go through with it. The Canadian Chamber of Commerce has also urged Ottawa to scrap what it called a self-defeating tax for months. But Ottawa seems to be sticking to its plan. Trump or not. Sam Samson, CBC News, Washington. It's no secret. Many Canadians love their lager or maybe they're partial to a pale ale.

There is also a long-gone symbol of that love affair with beer, one specific to Canada, the stubby. Those stout dark brown glass bottles once lined the shelves of liquor stores across this country. And in an age of rising trade tensions with the United States, the stubby is being recast as a form of economic resistance. Colin Butler explains. The idea for the campaign really came from a walk in the snow. Josh McJanet is co-founder of Dominion City Brewing Company in Ottawa. The brewery created glorious and free a Trans-Canada brewing collaboration. Not just a recipe, but resistance.

A polite no thank you to American grievance and Donald Trump's tariffs. I just sort of had a feeling, you know, like a lot of people I think, going to bed frustrated every night about what was happening and not feeling terribly powerful. He took that feeling of being pint sized and turned it into a protest you can pour. This was a way to harness that feeling and to take some kind of an action and I think the thing that might have worked about it was it was an invitation for others to take action. And 40 breweries across 10 provinces said yes to that invitation, each committing to using homegrown ingredients and a single recipe to send one message. We'll do this

our way. And it's not the first time Canada's brewers have taken a stand. Good day and welcome to the Great White North Canadian Corner. I'm Bob McKenzie. This is my brother Doug. The Stubby Beer Bottle, short, squat and unmistakably Canadian, just like 80s comedy icons Bob and Doug McKenzie. They helped immortalize it as a symbol of Canadian identity. Now it's being recast not as cultural icon, but as economic pushback. For a generation of beer drinkers, it was Canada's only vessel for beer, but Heather

Thompson wrote her undergraduate thesis in history on how the stubby was more than just packaging. It was protection for a national industry against American beer dominance from the 1960s to the 80s. They see the Americans coming and they knew that they were very interested in entering the lucrative Canadian market and they knew they needed something. That something was the stubby, a squat little beer bottle, short, tough, and uniquely ours. Easy to reuse, pricey for Americans to adopt. The stubby bottles would then have to be shipped to Canada and then the empty shipped back to be refilled. So any cost savings just didn't quantify for the Americans because it would be lost in the

extra transportation costs. A vessel designed not only to hold beer but to hold the line against American takeover. While the stubby once defended the market with its form, today's brewers do it with intent. Both a quiet refusal to be poured into anyone else's mold. Colin Butler, CBC News, London, Ontario. First there was Technicolor. Pass forward a few years and you hit the 3D craze. Hollywood pretty regularly tries out new features to get more butts into movie theater seats. And these days, their latest tactic to boost box office owes some thanks to a Canadian company. When you go to an IMAX theater, you know that that theater is set up just as the

filmmakers intended. Director Joseph Kaczynski's new movie F1 dominated the global box office this weekend. And according to Variety, about one-fifth of that revenue came from IMAX screens. To understand why IMAX became so important to Hollywood, our producer Adam Stroud spoke to freelance pop culture columnist, Rad Simon-Pillay. So Rad, when I was a kid, if you were seeing something on IMAX, you were probably seeing it at a museum. It was a nature documentary. Nowadays, Hollywood is urging moviegoers

to see their movies on IMAX. How did we get here? Well, so basically, we got here because in the late 90s to early 2000s, that's when IMAX screens started rolling into multiplexes. In fact, Toronto, we got our first one in 1999. But at the time, they were just screening older movies. And it was Warner Brothers that started kind of putting out their new movies on those IMAX screens beginning with the Matrix sequels and then the Harry Potter movies.

But I think the big shift, right? Like the, what the real turning point is when Christopher Nolan shot proportions of the dark night in on IMAX 70 millimeter cameras. So it made IMAX this compelling format for any movie that then followed. So the dark night that was 2008 now in 2025, how significant is IMAX to a movie's overall box office success? Well, I mean, I think IMAX is averaging about 10% of a movie's box office takes, sometimes on opening weekend. In the case of Sinners, I think it was 20%.

That's huge when you consider that they make up 1% of the screens across the world. And that's why you have movie studios fighting for IMAX real estate, you know? Like they're all having to reserve their two week, three week windows. I don't know if you remember two years ago, Tom Cruise was in a fight with the studios because he was upset that the last, the previous Mission Impossible movie, Dead Reckoning,

was about to get booted out of its IMAX release by Oppenheimer. So that was like, that was this big Hollywood tussle where Cruise was trying to take it up with the studio heads So you do actually literally legitimately get this fight In fact it when we came when it came to this last mission impossible movie Tom Cruz was like cutting deals with the IMAX boss like look at let's make sure we get a good a good run this time Around and the IMAX box was like yeah, I was sure we'll give guarantee you this exclusivity

You just make sure you name-drop IMAX at every opportunity you get if someone asks you what's your favorite scene just say IMAX what is it about that you think is drawing in audiences then? I mean look like when you think about like just the history of cinema technology I mean it's like the Wizard of Oz is the movie that brought made Technicolor a thing when you think of like Todd Ayo, Cinemascope all of these new formats that came out around the time that television arrived so they needed an excuse to get people back into the big screens and so IMAX is that disruptive technology today especially now in the age of streaming. Even if you're talking about movies that are not shot on IMAX

people are preferring IMAX because just everyday digital projection at cinemas it's terrible. It's always been terrible and that's because it's got like low contrast levels the colors just aren't as rich. The digital TV at my house often looks a lot better than the digital projection in a movie theater. So I think a lot of times when people are making a night out of going to the movies, they are preferring IMAX because they know they're at least gonna get

the big beautiful image and the beautiful sound. But I wanna ask about trade-offs here, because as you mentioned, there's only 1% of the screens in the world are IMAX. It's about twice as much than a regular movie ticket. So is there a double-edged sword here for the movie industry putting so much emphasis on IMAX and their marketing and encouraging people to see movies in IMAX? I think we're headed in that direction already, you know what I mean? Like because like if the theaters are not offering this kind of pristine presentation there's less and less reason for people to go and deal with

the tyranny of the masses. Already going to the movies is becoming a terrible experience because of people on their phones and people making noise during the movies and all that and then on top of that you're throwing in some lousy projection. I think the movie going demographic is shrinking but when they are deciding to go out they're making an event of it. They're choosing the luxury, they're choosing the big experience. And I think more and more movie theaters are going to embrace the eventness at the premium pricing because that's the only way to get people out of their homes.

All right, Rad, thank you very much. Thanks for having me. That's Rad Simon-Pillay in Toronto. Ukraine has become the latest country to withdraw from an international treaty on the use of landmines. A 1997 agreement, often called the Ottawa Convention, banned the use, production and stockpiling of anti-personnel landmines. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says the withdrawal is due to the reality of war. He says Russia is not a party to the convention and has been using mines against both the Ukrainian military and civilians. Russia is not a party to the convention and has been using minds against both the Ukrainian

military and civilians. Several Baltic states, as well as Poland, have also exited the agreement in recent months. US President Donald Trump is amping up his pressure on Israel. He is pushing for a ceasefire with Hamas to end their 20-month war. This comes as another devastating round of Israeli fire has left dozens dead and hundreds more scrambling for safety. Margaret Evans is in Jerusalem tonight with more. That's the sound of an Israeli airstrike hitting a building in Jabalia, northern Gaza,

what looks to be about a block away from startled pedestrians who take cover. A brief glimpse of the shooting gallery that Gaza has become. The number of Palestinians being killed by Israeli fire every day is relentless, at least 81 over a 24-hour period on Saturday alone, according to Gaza health officials. Three of Iman Abu Maruf's children are part of Sunday's tally. After the tent they were sleeping in was hit by an airstrike overnight in southern Gaza. They bombed us while we were sleeping on the ground, she says. We didn't do anything wrong.

Today the Israel Defense Forces issued new evacuation orders for parts of Gaza City and the north. People picking themselves up yet again to move one more time. The IDF sent out messages on social media telling people to move south to Almawazi for their own safety. That's close to where Abu Marouf's children were killed, an Israeli designated humanitarian zone that has repeatedly come under fire. No! Hosshaf! On Saturday in Tel Aviv, tens of thousands of Israelis out demanding their government agree to a ceasefire with Hamas in exchange for Israeli hostages still held by the militant

group. It was the first big protest since Israel reached a truce with Iran. Many in the crowd hope its perceived success in Israel will offer Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the political cover he needs with hardliners in his own party to approve a deal. Gilead Scherr is a former senior Israeli peace negotiator. We have to turn the military successful achievements to political gains for all the region, first and foremost for Israel. But Netanyahu has repeatedly refused Hamas' main demand, a permanent end to the war.

Netanyahu's critics accuse him of being afraid of a public backlash against his leadership once the war ends. Yitan Stein is in his thirties. A large percentage of why we're still at war is for political reasons. Our government wanting some kind of total victory that can't really be achieved. The U.S. President Donald Trump has brought his own special brand of pressure to the situation with a message on social media overnight reading, make the deal in Gaza. Margaret Evans, CBC News, Jerusalem.

Long before it was founded in 1948, the modern state of Israel existed as an idea, one that can be traced back to 19th century Austria. Now, as the war in Gaza drags on, a group of Jewish Austrians have organized a conference speaking out against Israel in the very city where it was conceived. Rebecca Collard reports from Vienna. On the side of a small staircase in central Vienna, there is a plaque dedicated to the Jewish writer Theodor Herzl, known as the father of modern political Zionism. He once lived at the bottom of these steps.

A tour guide explains Herzl's life and ideas. At the beginning of his life in Vienna, he had very different opinions that Jewish people don't need their own state. From there, you can see across the Danube Canal to Leopoldstadt, once a marshy island which became a densely populated Jewish neighborhood, in part because of centuries of anti-Semitic persecution and expulsion of Jews from the center of Vienna. In 1896, Herzl published The Jewish State, arguing Jews would never be truly safe without their own country. In mid-June, a short subway ride away from that staircase, around 500 people gathered

to dispute Herschel's ideas at what organizers dubbed the first Jewish anti-Zionist congress in the birthplace of modern Zionism. Inside a large hall, banners hung from the walls, Stop Zionism, Judaism is not Zionism, and never again for anyone. Zionism delivered something that a lot of people bought into. It was, you know, how can I be Jewish when I'm not religious? So it's kind of this thing that Zionism used to gather Jews around the world and to collect them into this national ideology. Dalia Sarig is one of the organizers. She says she grew up with Zionism and at 18

moved to Israel. The experience changed her mind about that ideology and she eventually returned to Austria. Sarg says the Congress is bringing people together but there is also a message. Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitic and it's very important. But many Austrians don't agree with Sarg and organizers kept the location of the Congress a secret until just days before, fearing pushback from pro-Israel groups. Jakov Rabkin, a University of Montreal history professor who spoke at the Congress, says Jewish opposition to Zionism is as old as the idea of Zionism itself.

The first kind of opposition was religious. The project of Zionism originated among evangelical Christians, and it went totally against Jewish understanding of what the Holy Land is. Others saw Zionism as a distraction from class struggle, says Rapkin. And for more assimilated Jews, the idea that they belonged in Palestine rather than the countries where they lived sounded anti-Semitic. The Holocaust changed that perception for many of the European Jews who survived.

But Rappken says that is changing yet again. Most young people are averse to the idea of apartheid, of ethnic nationalism, of supremacy of all kinds. Participants at the Congress say the Jewish state has cost the lives and displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and hasn't kept Jews safe either. So in the very city where Herzl made his case for that state, they are coming together to reject it. Rebecca Collard for CBC News, Vienna. Police in the UK are considering an investigation into anti-Israel chants led by performers

at the Glastonbury Music Festival, such as this one by English punk duo Bob Villain. That chant referencing Israel's military outraged the Israeli embassy in Britain. The embassy called the chant inflammatory and hateful rhetoric. And UK Health Secretary Wes Streeding told the BBC the comments were revolting. And if I think about the war in Ukraine, I mean, no doubt I want Ukraine to win, but that doesn't mean I'm going to be cheering on the deaths of Russians. I don't think anyone wins from that. In a post on Instagram, Glastonbury organizer Emily Evis wrote the chant crossed a line and that quote, there is no place at Glastonbury for anti-Semitism, hate speech or incitement

to violence. For most Canadian kids, it's the most wonderful time of the year. But for many teachers in this country, school's out for good. They are leaving the profession in droves, and school boards are scrambling for solutions. As Deanna Sumanek Johnson tells us, some say the teacher shortage can't be solved without solving their concerns with working conditions. The more people who aren't in the building on a given day at a given time, the more it over extends the rest of us. As he closes the book on another school year, science teacher Jason Bradshaw knows that the

problem that has defined education and his life over the last few years likely won't go away by September teacher shortage. In some cases school librarians, guidance counselors, they might need to give up time to step into the classroom and and take over a class. At the start of last school year the province of Quebec was short more than 8,000 teachers. Most of those spots filled by not yet certified teachers, even parents watching a class. And it's not just in Quebec. According to a survey done last year by Organization People for Education, 24% of Ontario elementary schools and 35 percent of secondary schools were short on teachers on a daily basis. While mass retirements expected in the next few years

are a factor, there are others. Since the pandemic, mid-career teachers have been leaving the profession in droves due to burnout and stress. There's a lot of certified individuals in most of our provinces and territories but the working conditions mean that people are leaving. That's Clint Johnston, the incoming president of the Canadian Teachers Federation. He says a problem with that many causes needs many solutions. In places where teachers' salaries are low relative to the cost of living, like British Columbia, some have floated the cost of living like British Columbia. Some have floated the kinds of strategies used to attract doctors and nurses.

Johnston isn't sure it'll get to the root of the problem. The issue that is causing the shortage is the fact that the working conditions are not sustainable as a 30, 35-year career. Ontario is adding 2,600 new spots for teacher candidates at universities and, according to a document obtained by the Canadian Press, is contemplating shortening teacher college from two years to one. David Hutchison is a professor of education at Brock University who teaches young teacher candidates.

We would have to add a lot of the additional instruction that prepares teachers for the new challenges in terms of mental health, in terms of technology, artificial intelligence. In other words, potentially deprive new teachers of preparation for the stressful reality of what they're going to face. Jason Bradshaw has ideas on what he'd like to see done so the teachers stay in the job longer. Pay that's going to keep up with inflation throughout the duration of our careers,

not just a bonus when we sign on. He says he wants governments and society to show more respect towards the profession that, despite its difficulties, he loves too much to leave. Deanna Sumanac-Johnson, CBC News, Brampton, Ontario. For many kids, this school year was their first go-round. So before we leave you tonight, we share some sage advice from some kindergarten students in the eastern parts of this country. They told our colleagues at CBC, Newfoundland and Labrador all about what they learned in

their very first year of school. Liam, what is the most important thing that you learned in kindergarten this year? Play on the bus. If you were talking to somebody who was about to go to kindergarten for the first time, what would you say to them? Listen to the teachers. Ella, what is the most important thing that you learned in kindergarten this year? Appropriate, safe and kind. Be safe and kind? Who taught you that? The principals. What was your favorite thing you did in kindergarten this year?

Play with toys. What toys do you like to play with the best? The bus. Willow, can you tell me what the most important thing you learned in kindergarten was? Listen to your teacher. Anything else you learned? No. Listen to my mom. That was CBC's Reagan Burden chatting with some now former kindergarten students in Happy Valley Goose Bay. Apparently the bus is a big highlight. Best of luck to all those kids from Peacock Primary School and every other school, really,

as they all head off to grade one in September. But of course, there is that all-important summer vacation time to get through first, so best of luck to their parents as well. You've been listening to Your World Tonight. I'm Ennis Hadari. Hope you can also be safe and kind for this Canada Day weekend.