The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/10 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 10, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/10 at 12:00 EDT

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Prime Minister Mark Carney and the entire Liberal Caucus are in Edmonton for a two-day planning session. And Carney says the agenda will be dominated with the upcoming rollout of a number of government initiatives aimed at combating the Trump tariff campaign. We're over the shock, but we should never forget the lessons. we have to look out for ourselves, and we have to take care of each other. Also being discussed in Edmonton is the upcoming budget. It will be tabled next month,

with Carney saying his government is in the process of making what he calls tough choices. Meanwhile, Carney is among a number of NATO leaders pledging their support today to Poland. Carney says Canada is coordinating with the Polish government and remains vigilant against all Russian attempts to widen the conflict with Ukraine. This after as many as 19 Russian drones violated Polish airspace overnight. Anna Cunningham has more. The Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, he says Poland is at its closest to open conflict since World War II. A planned EU defence minister's meeting in London has pivoted to discuss Poland.

The British Defence Minister John Healy says the incursion was unacceptable. We will stand together and we will support Poland through NATO to resist those in the future. A White House official says US President Donald Trump plans to talk to the Polish president later today. Poland has invoked Article 4 of the NATO Treaty, which any member can call when it feels territorial integrity, political independence or its security are at risk. It's only the eighth time the measure has ever been used. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London. Now to Paris.

On the streets of Paris and right across the country, it is a day of protest. They're being called Block Everything demonstrations. And they're being met with a deployment of more than 80,000 police officers. My protest campaign is in response to, among other issues, deep public spending cuts being proposed by the government. government of Emmanuel Macron. A decision expected today on whether the man charged with 11 counts of second-degree murder in Vancouver's Lapu-Lapu-Day tragedy is fit to stand trial. 11 people were killed in April when a vehicle was driven into a crowd of festival goers.

Georgie Smyth reports. Defence lawyers and Crown Council have been arguing in court for months on whether the man accused of killing 11 people at a Vancouver Street Festival in April is fit to stand trial. Kaiji Adam Lowe faces 11 counts of second-degree murder after he allegedly drove his SUV into a crowd where expecting a decision on whether he is fit to stand trial and if his broader prosecution will be able to proceed today. Criminal lawyers like Rebecca McConkey say the public should think about the fitness to stand trial process as a way to make sure defendants can understand the nature and consequences of court proceedings. So a fitness to stand trial is

the accused mental capacity now, not their mental capacity or mental state at the time of the offense. The details of these hearings are covered by a publication ban, which limits what media can share about what's happening in court. Georgie Smyth, CBC News, Vancouver. A new study is suggesting that the smoke from Canadian wildfires in 2023 has been responsible for as many as 80,000 premature deaths worldwide. The study published in the journal, says the smoke has led to an enormous and far-reaching global health burden. Canadian co-author, Michael Brower, says the findings serve as a wake-up call for areas that haven't typically seen repeated or prolonged exposure to wildfire smoke.

Brower says these health impacts will only increase with worsening climate change. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings. Thank you.