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

Episode Date: September 9, 2025

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

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From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Neil Hurland. The Israeli military is warning residents of Gaza City to evacuate in a post on the Platform X, Colonel Avichai Adrae delivered a statement in Arabic this morning. An urgent message to the residents of Gaza's city, he says, for your safety move immediately. Staying in the city is extremely dangerous. The army will act with great force in the area. The Israeli military is beginning an expanded operation

to move into Gaza City, the last stronghold of the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Canada's Transportation Safety Board is in the Caribbean nation of St. Martin. Investigators will be at the airport today, gathering data and examining a West Jet plane from Toronto that had a hard landing over the weekend. Grisha Heiliger Martin is the tourism minister in St. Martin, and she had relatives on the flight.

It landed abruptly, and it had landed hard, actually. But it were fine. But this was actually the first of its kind. Never happened in St. Martin. This is our first time ever experiencing something like this. We had some ambulance on standby, some people who were, like, really nervous and taken aback. The Westjet plane has been moved off the runway,

and flights at the airport are back to normal. The Alberta government has amended its policy on banned books in schools. It now only prohibits books with visual depictions of sexual acts. As Karina Zapata reports, critics say the province could have taken a more efficient approach. This sweeping policy is something that could have been done with a phone call. The head of the Alberta Teachers Association, Jason Schilling, says the new policy is an improvement.

But all of this drama could have been done. been avoided. The province's revised ministerial order takes Amat books with explicit sexual images or illustrations. The main difference, written depictions of sexual acts, can stay in Alberta schools. The change comes after the Edmonton Public School Board's long list of banned books under the initial policy included literary classics. Demetrios Nikolides is Alberta's education minister. It was clear that there was some misunderstanding and misapplication. The new rules also no longer mentioned specific grades, meaning books with sexually explicit images must also be removed from libraries in junior high and high schools. School boards must share the lists of books they

plan to remove by October 31st. The new rules are set to take effect on January 5th. Karina Zapata. CBC News, Calgary. Operation Nanook is underway in Canada's Arctic, an opportunity for the Canadian Army, Navy, and Air Force to run scenarios of what it would take to defend the North. Invasion is of course unlikely, but as David Common reports, there are many other reasons Canada's adversaries are interested in the Arctic. On board the Navy ship, William Hall, the crew is using advanced sensors, drones, a helicopter, and their eyes to locate a suspect vessel. Do we have any indications there are more on the southern side versus the northern side?

This is a simulation of a what-if that could happen. A small vessel looks at. at sensitive military sites in the north or mapping out our sea floor for future use by foreign submarines. Observing the exercise is the military commander for the entire north, Brigadier General Dan Rivier. It's so vast. It's 40% of the country's land mass. Surveillance aircraft and satellites can usually pinpoint the big stuff. But the training exercise underway is for the far more difficult, smaller vessels. David Common, CBC News, on board the Navy ship, William Hall, in Nunavut. The government of Nepal has lifted a ban on social media platforms after violent street protests yesterday,

in which police opened fire on demonstrators killing 19 people. Some of the world's largest platforms, including Facebook, X, and YouTube, were blocked last week. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland.