The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/08 at 21:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 9, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/08 at 21:00 EDT

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Please play responsibly. Charitable gaming, community good. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Neil Hurland. The Federal Government is announcing new details about how it plans to help Canadian businesses withstand the impact of a global trade war. It comes after the Prime Minister unveiled a suite of new programs last week for industries hit hard by U.S. and Chinese tariffs. Tom Perry has more.

This isn't just a phase. It's not just a transition. It's a rupture. Prime Minister Mark Carney in St. John's Newfoundland promising help for Canadian business. Carney last week unveiled a series of measures for industries hit by tariffs, including a billion dollar fund to help small and medium-sized firms adapt and seek new markets. Carney says $80 million from that fund will go to businesses in Atlantic Canada. The funds small and medium-sized businesses across the region help them,

not just to invest, not just to endure, to thrive. The fund is just one part of the government's overall pledge, industry minister Melanie Jolie, was in Sherbrook, Quebec, promising help for the aluminum sector. Canada's aluminum exports face a 50% U.S. tariff. Jolie says the industry could receive hundreds of millions of dollars in support. Tom Perry, CBC News, Ottawa. The government of Alberta is rewriting its controversial book ban following widespread criticism. The revision significantly narrowed the scope of the order. Josh McLean reports. The new order only restricts visual depictions of explicit sexual activity,

unlike the one issued in July that also included written text. Demetrios Nicolides is Alberta's education minister. Making that change really helps to crystallize and clarify which material we have concern with and which material we don't have concern with. The previous order stirred up controversy after Edmonton's public school board released a list of 200 books it said would be removed, including classic and well-known titles like Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Ayn Rand's Atlas shrugged. The revised version still has its critics.

Wing Lee is with support our students, Alberta. If the government doesn't want children to engage in what they deem as harmful, then have people help them. Higher teacher librarian. Schools have until January 5th to implement the changes. Josh McLean, CBC News, Calgary. The Mounties in British Columbia have announced charges related to an escape from prison three years ago. The convicted killer, Rabia al-Kalil, was awaiting a separate murder trial when he broke out of a detention center in July 2020.

Charges have been approved against three men who allegedly assisted in the escape of Robbie Al-Kalil. Sergeant Tammy Lobb says the men are charged with prison breach and conspiracy. One of the men was also charged in an unrelated case of conspiring to commit murder in Kamloops. Police say Al-Kalil remains at large, the 38. year old has an extensive criminal record and was a member of Canada's most wanted list after the escape. Police say they cannot confirm recent reports that he has been arrested in Qatar. An Ottawa man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for inciting hate, fear, and division by calling for violence against Jews. Patrick Gordon McDonald was found guilty of a number

of charges in April, all related to terrorist propaganda images and videos he helped create in 2018 and 2019 under the alias dark foreigner. MacDonald read a statement in court, expressing remorse for what he called awful things he said and drew. The Prime Minister of France has lost a vote of confidence. The Prime Minister must remit to the President of the Republic, the demission of the government. Francois Beirou is the third French Prime Minister to be ousted in the past year.

The vote is a blow to President Emmanuel Macron's fragile minority. government. He now has to appoint a new prime minister. Members of a left-wing alliance, which emerged as the largest winning bloc in last year's legislative elections, are urging Macron to pick a member from their coalition. Right-wing politicians want Macron to call snap elections, but the president has ruled out that possibility. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland. Thank you.