The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/27 at 18:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/27 at 18:00 EDT

If you're absolutely loving your summer read and don't want the book to be over, your experience doesn't actually have to end when you finish reading. I'm Matea Roach, and on my podcast bookends, I sit down with authors to get the inside scoop behind the books you love. Like, why Emma Donoghue is so fascinated by trains, or how Taylor Jenkins Read feels about being a celebrity author. You can check out bookends with Matea Roach wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, The World This Hour, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. Minneapolis police say the suspected shooter who opened fire on a Catholic school this morning bought his weapons legally. Two young children were shot dead in the attack and 17 others were injured. Officials say the suspected shooter, 23-year-old Robin Westman, was carrying a rifle, a shotgun, and a pistol.

He took his own life shortly after. The city's mayor, Jacob Fry, says authorities need to take solid action to prevent such tragedies from repeating. I think the impetus has to be on all of us as leaders to do a whole lot more to recognize that we've got more guns in this country than we have people. We can't just say that this shouldn't happen again and then allow it to happen again and again beyond that. It's on all of us. The FBI says it's investigating the shooting as an act of domestic. terrorism and hate crime targeting Catholics. New data shows U.S. border officers are searching the mobile phones of travelers much more frequently. It's part of the Trump administration's

crackdown on immigration. Legal experts say agents are allowed to search devices and can deny entry to Canadians who don't comply. Thomas Daigla has more. From this past April to June, and while the number of Canadians traveling stateside continued to plummet, U.S. border officers were searching more mobile phones than ever before. Data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows its staff looked through nearly 15,000 electronic devices. That's almost 25% more than during the same period last year. They helped me there for three hours.

I missed my flight. Sociologist Nathan Coleman Lamb had his phone searched as he traveled from Fredericton to a conference in South Carolina. But Toronto-based immigration lawyer Heather Siegel warns, The discretion that these officers have is absolutely 100% legal. U.S. officials say if a traveler refuses to hand over their unlocked mobile device, that may be part of the reason they're denied entry. Thomas Daugle, CBC News, Toronto.

Prime Minister Mark Carney visited Canadian troops stationed in Latvia at the conclusion of his four-day trip to Europe. If we're going to defend in advance our values of freedom, of democracy and peace, Canada must do so from a position of strength. Some 2,200 Canadian troops are in Latvia as part of Operation Reassurance. It's an ongoing NATO mission to deter further Russian aggression in Europe. Carney has announced it's being extended until at least 2029. Conservative leader Pierre Palliev is demanding that Ottawa drop its clean fuel standards.

They were brought in a few years ago in a bid to lower Canada's carbon emissions. But Pollyev says people struggling with affordability can't afford the regulations. Olivia Stefanovic reports. We are making it a priority to boost take-home pay and reverse the liberal cost of living crisis by opposing Mark Carney's carbon tax 2.0. Even though the liberals scrap the consumer carbon pricing system, Conservative leader Pierre Pollyev still wants to campaign against it. We need to get rid of the carbon taxes altogether, make our lives afford.

again. Polyev is now attacking the federal clean fuel regulations, calling them the second carbon tax. The standards were introduced a few years ago to reduce carbon emissions, but the parliamentary budget officer estimates that by 2030, the price of gas will increase by 17 cents per leader. Polyev says Canadians can't afford that, and the conservative leader is trying to convince the federal government to dismantle the regulations altogether. Olivia Estefanovich, CBC News, Ottawa. Montreal police have arrested a man after an Israeli flag was set on fire twice in four days. The flag was flying outside the town hall in the suburb of Hampstead.

39-year-old Frederick Byron Carmel is facing four charges, including arson, inciting hate and mischief motivated by hate. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. Thank you.