The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/27 at 22:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/27 at 22:00 EDT

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Certain conditions apply. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. Police in Minnesota say the shooter who opened fire on a Catholic school this morning legally purchased the weapons used in the attack. At least two children are dead and many more injured in a shooting in Minneapolis. As Lisa Xing reports, the FBI is now investigating it as an act of domestic terrorism. I'm just yelling out my daughter's name Clarissa, Clarissa. Where are you? Where are you?

Suzanne Garcia, describing the frantic moments searching for her daughter after a shooter with a rifle opened fire through the windows of Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, killing children at a mass that was meant to mark the start of school. Children are dead. They're families that have a deceased child. The city's mayor, Jacob Fry, devastated. Now, these kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church. Two of them, ages 8 and 10, died in the pews where they sat.

17 others were wounded. 14 of them children. Police Chief Brian O'Hara says the shooter was armed with a rifle, shotgun, and pistol. This was a deliberate act of violence. The suspected shooter, 23-year-old Robin Westman, took his own life behind the church. Police say they're looking for a motive. Lisa Sheng, CBC News, Washington. The Danish government has reprimanded top American diplomats for reports the U.S. is running a covert influence campaign in Greenland.

Just months after U.S. President Donald Trump mused about taking over the Danish territory. Chris Brown has more. Denmark's foreign minister has accused the United States one of its closest allies of acting more like an adversary by conducting covert operations in Greenland. We need Greenland. Donald Trump has talked a lot about acquiring Greenland. He even refused to rule out taking it by force in order to get at the immense mineral resources buried under its ice cap. A report on Denmark's public broadcaster suggests that unnamed people close to Trump

have been trying to stoke divisions on Greenland. The report claims at least three Americans have been trying to recruit sympathetic Greenlanders to set up a pro-U.S. political movement on the island. In the recent election, most Greenlanders voted for parties that favored severing links with Denmark, but few expressed much interest in having Donald Trump rule them instead. Chris Brown, CBC News, London. A Montreal man is facing arson and hate crime charges tonight. The 39-year-old is accused of burning an Israeli flag twice over just a few days.

The flag was flying outside the town hall of the municipality of Hampstead, which has a large Jewish population and Jewish mayor. Frederick Byron Carmel is facing four charges, including arson and inciting hate. A carnival worker was killed at a summer fair in Prince Rupert, B.C. The accident was witnessed by people in line for the ride, leaving many shaken. Brady Strachan has more. My kids are here. We're on our last ride, two rides away. Russell Stewart is one of many people in Prince Rupert who were at the summer carnival when the tragedy took place.

The feeling and the energy before it happened and when it was happening and after it happened was just, it wouldn't go away for a long time. It was around 10.40 in the evening when a man working for shooting star amusements, which runs the carnival rides, died. On Wednesday afternoon, many gathered near the site as a way to grieve and heal. Gary Wells is one of the organizers. So hopefully a lot of the people that witnessed this last night are here. so we can smudge them too and help them through their healing process.

WorkSafe, BC, technical safety BC, and the coroner service are now investigating. Brady Strachan, CBC News, Colonna. Air Canada flight attendants are now voting on a new contract. Their union reached a tentative deal with the airline last week following a three-day strike, voting end September 6. And in other Labor News, Unifor has re-elected Lanapain as its national president. Unifor is Canada's largest union in the private sector. And that's the CBC News.