The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/05 at 02:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 5, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/05 at 02:00 EDT

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you'll know just how healthy they are. Visit Spexsavers.cavers.cai to book your next eye exam. Eye exams provided by independent optometrists. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Mike Miles. US President Donald Trump's been long concerned with security along the border with Canada, calling it a gateway for fentanyl smuggling. While Ottawa's respondent with increased resources, now his attorney general is ramping up security on the other side to deal with human smuggling.

Steve Futterman explains. Pam Bondi says U.S. officials will begin to put more focus on the U.S. Canadian border. It follows a number of cases of people being smuggled into the U.S. through Vermont and New York. It's just not the southern border. She says a growing number of undocumented immigrants are entering the U.S. from the northern border. On Wednesday, a Michigan woman was charged with seven counts. In one count, she's accused of transporting immigrants last November from Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala. Bundy says the surge has been going on for some time.

In 2023, parts of Vermont and New York started seeing unprecedented traffic law enforcement officers operating in these areas encountered aliens from 97 different countries, including China, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran. The U.S. has cited the illegal crossings to justify some of the tariffs on Canadian goods. Steve Futterman for CBC News, Los Angeles. Manitoba RCMP are recounting dramatic details of a mass stabbing on the hollow water First Nation. It began early morning Thursday. By the time it was over, two people were dead, seven others injured. Superintendent Rob Lassen. In total, eight community members ranging in age from 18 to 60 years of age had sustained injuries during this incident.

We can confirm, sadly, that an 18-year-old female has died a result of. these injuries. That 18-year-old woman was the sister of the suspect, 26-year-old Tyrone Simard. He fled in a stolen vehicle and ended up in a collision with the RCMP cruiser and died at the scene. The police officer suffered critical injuries but is expected to recover. Lassen says an investigation is underway. Charges have now been laid in this week's raid of a decommissioned school in Richmond, Saskatchewan. Self-proclaimed Queen of Canada Romana-Didulo and site owner Ricky Manns were arrested Thursday. RCPs say they violated a condition of their release that they not contact each other. They're also accused of intimidating a person in the case. Both have court

appearances scheduled for Friday morning. The city of Vancouver has presented its final recommendations on the car ramming that killed 11 people during the Filipino Lapu Lapu Day Festival. Officials say events will be playing differently from now on, but add there's only so much they can do. Georgie Smyth reports. Eight recommendations included developing a framework to more robustly prevent cars from entering event spaces and allocating more money to event safety. But there was also a difficult acknowledgement by Mayor Ken Sim. Let's say we protected every single event with cars.

There's going to be another item in the future. And so we're not going to solve anything unless we get to the mental health aspect of these issues and the root cause of these issues. 11 people died when a car rammed through the block festival in April right as it was about to finish. The city's report restated that the Lapu-Lapu-Lapid event met all the requirements for event planning and there was no reason to suggest festival goers were at risk. Kaiji Adam Lowe is accused of driving the SUV and faces 11 counts of second-degree murder. A ruling on his fitness to stand trial is expected next week. Georgie Smythe, CBC News, Vancouver.

Portugal overnight? That sound of the wreckage being dismantled from Wednesday's fatal funicular train derailment under the watchful eye of investigators. Two Canadians are believed to me among the 16 dead, but that's not been confirmed by foreign affairs. Another Canadian is among the 21 injured. A mass was held Thursday night to remember the victims. It's not known yet what caused the derailment. That is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles.