Your World Tonight Budget promises, famine in Sudan, grain bin hotel rooms, and more
Nov 3, 2025
Tom Perry, a CBC reporter focusing on federal politics, discusses the government's much-anticipated budget amid minority dynamics. Chris Reyes shares insights into the high-stakes New York mayoral race, featuring Zoran Mamdani's innovative campaign. Sasha Petrosik highlights the dire humanitarian crisis in Sudan, emphasizing the alarming famine in Darfur. Finally, Kyle Bax showcases Alberta farmers’ creative pivot to agritourism, transforming grain bins into cozy hotel rooms for a unique rural experience.
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Big-Budget Push Meets Minority Politics
- The upcoming federal budget prioritizes large nation-building investments while trimming program spending in other areas.
- The minority Liberals need some opposition support, making political buy-in as crucial as dollars for passage.
Protect Small Business With Targeted Supports
- Small businesses urge targeted supports like easier access to capital and small-business tax relief to survive trade shocks and tariffs.
- Policymakers should balance big foreign-investment incentives with measures that protect locally owned small firms.
Historic Deficit Framed As Strategic Risk
- The budget's deficit is expected to be historically large, outside wartime or pandemic levels, focused on defence, housing and infrastructure.
- The government positions the spending as a risk to attract foreign investment amid trade uncertainty.