The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/01 at 03:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 1, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/01 at 03:00 EDT

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forced to leave their homes in Fort Providence due to a wildfire burning just two kilometers away. The CBC's Juanita Taylor reports from Hay River. Evacque is looking somewhat traumatized. a two-hour bus ride from Fort Providence, bringing them to Hay River. It was quite smoky. I mean, that smoke was getting thick. Some 700 of people who had to flee from an encroaching wildfire, 89,000 hectares in size, bigger than Toronto. It's really red.

Frieda Lissage says she's never seen anything like it. It could just hear it and woo, like it sounds scary. Those who made it to the evacuation center uncertain of what will come next. Mike Westwick is the territory's fire information officer. The town of Hay River has sent firefighters to town as well to assist in this effort. While residents have been told to get out, there are still people there protecting the hamlet by putting up sprinklers and water cannons trying to win the battle against Mother Nature. Juanita Taylor's CBC News, Hay River, Northwest Territories.

We're following a deadly earthquake in eastern Afghanistan. At least 610 people are dead. their 1,300 are injured. Local officials say numerous villages are destroyed. Russian President Vladimir Putin is in China, taking part in a summit organized by Chinese President Xi Jinping, and he spoke today about the prospects for peace in Ukraine. He said he hopes the mutual understanding that was reached at a recent Russian-U-S summit in Alaska paves the way to peace. Putin also said he would reveal more about his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in the coming days.

Liberal MP Anthony Housefather and 31 of his caucus colleagues have issued a statement condemning a deplorable rise of anti-Semitism in Canada and calling on Canadians to stand up against hatred towards Jewish communities. The statement was posted on social media by Housefather just days after a Jewish woman was stabbed in the kosher section of an Ottawa grocery store. Police are calling the attack a hate-motivated crime. Joseph Rook of Cornwall, Ontario was arrested at the scene. An 11-year-old boy is dead in Houston after a prank turned tragic this weekend. A group of children started ringing random doorbells and running away,

but someone in a home chased after them with a gun. Detective Sergeant Michael Cass is with the Houston Homicide Squad. A witness said someone ran out of that house and was shooting at the kids running down the street. And unfortunately, and sadly enough, one of the boys who was 11 years old was shot in the back. Investigators are speaking with a suspect and say he could be charged with murder.

An 1,800-kilometer family canoe trip has come to an end after almost a decade. The family started canoeing on Speed River in Guelph, Ontario and paddled all the way to the Atlantic Ocean. Ahtasheti reports. The Shoot family, from Gulf Ontario has just returned after the last part of their journey. It began on the Speed River near their home, and they rode it all the way out to the Atlantic Ocean.

Jeremy Schutt was on the trip with his wife, brother, sons, and many other loved ones. It's so awesome out here. It's magic out on the water. He says there were some scary moments, too. We had these two ships passing us on the right with their big wakes, like they produce a big wave. and so we were going up and over these weeks. The family trip started on the Speed River in 2017. They split up the trip into parts, completing each leg of the trip every summer for nine years.

It took them from Guelph to the Niagara Falls, Mexico Bay, Quebec City, and it ended this year at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean where they were greeted by a majestic pod of Baluga whales. Ashti, CBC News, Guelph, Ontario. And that is your world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland.