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

Episode Date: September 9, 2025

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

Hey, it's Gavin from Because News. This week on the news quiz, Scott Thompson is here. I've known him for a long time. He always makes me laugh. And he always has something surprising to say about American politics. And it's never what I think he's going to say. Also, we'll talk about vicious compliance from the Ebbington School Board and double dating. Also, we've got Brandon Ash Muhammad and Jan Karwana who are going to try to get a word in edgewise. That's all coming up on this week's Because News. Get it wherever you get your podcasts, which is presumably here. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland.

We begin with breaking news from Nepal. The country's prime minister, K.P. Sharma O'Lei, has just resigned after a shocking massacre yesterday. Nepalese police opened fire on young protesters in the capital, killing 19 people, The protesters were upset because the government banned some of the biggest social media platforms, including Facebook, X, and YouTube. 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 City, he says,

for your safety move immediately. Staying in the city is extremely dangerous. The army will act with great force. The Israeli military is beginning an expanded ground operation in 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 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 was 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. 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 avoided. The province's revised ministerial order takes aim at 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 misapplications. 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 looking at sensitive military sites in the north,

or mapping out our seafloor 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 landmass. Surveillance aircraft and satellites can usually pinpoint the big stuff. But the training exercise underway is for the far more difficult, smaller vessels. David Commons, CBC News, on board the Navy ship, William Hall, in Nunavut. And that's the world this hour.