Global National with Dawna Friesen

Tightening federal purse strings; China's message; Lisbon funicular crash


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Prime Minister Mark Carney is promising to tighten the purse strings by reining in spending. David Akin looks ahead to Carney's first federal budget this fall, and what the prime minister is still looking to invest in. Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says the temporary foreign worker program needs to be axed. Touria Izri explains why business leaders say it's a bad idea. China has held its largest ever military parade. Redmond Shannon reports on the message behind it, and the show of support China is receiving from both North Korea and Russia. Lisbon's world-famous Gloria Funicular cable railway derailed and hit a building, killing 15 people. What witnesses say happened just before the tragedy. Heather Yourex-West reports on the air quality concerns spawned by wildfires in the Northwest Territories. Mike Armstrong explains what several women who say they were sex trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein are threatening to do. Plus: Heidi Petracek tells you about one woman's unrelenting quest to unlock two lifelong mysteries. How she discovered her mother's past as a Nazi slave, and the father she never met.

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