Global National: Sept. 3, 2025 | Carney promises to “rein in spending” ahead of federal budget

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With parliament set to resume soon, Prime Minister Mark Carney is hinting at what to expect in his government’s first federal budget, which he says will be an "austerity" budget. David Akin looks at how Carney is promising to "rein in spending," what could be cut and where money could be redirected.

Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the federal government to scrap the temporary foreign workers program, which has existed for decades to help fill specific jobs when there are labour shortages. Touria Izri explains why Poilievre wants to abolish the program and why some business leaders say that’s a bad idea.

China held a massive military parade to mark 80 years since the formal end of the Second World War, but there was deeper meaning behind the spectacle. Redmond Shannon explains how Chinese President Xi Jinping is flexing his country’s military muscle, the message he wants to send to the world and how both North Korea and Russia showed their support.

Plus, journalists spend their careers documenting the stories of the people and events around them, but a retired Nova Scotia broadcaster’s biggest story has turned out to be the mystery of her own upbringing. Heidi Petracek explains how Halina St. James discovered her mother’s past as a Nazi slave and the father she never met.

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