The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/10 at 17:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 10, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/10 at 17:00 EDT

Okay, listen, fall is my favorite season, and the biggest reason for that is it means TIF is year. My name is Alameen Abdu Mahmood, and I host a show called Commotion. Normally, we get into the biggest pop culture stories, and we do that in about 25 minutes or so. But during TIF, we do it in half the time. Listen to Tiff and 12 in our podcast feed every weekday during the Toronto International Film Festival, so you can keep up to date without having to watch four movies in a day. Find and follow Commotion wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, The World This Hour. I'm Kate McGilfrey.

U.S. conservative commentator Charlie Kirk is dead. The influential and controversial political activist was shot while speaking at Utah Valley University. He was known as the founder of Turning Point USA, which holds conservative debates on campuses across the country. The university says one shot was fired from just under 200 meters away. The shooting suspect is still at large, despite earlier reports of an arrest. In a social media post announcing Kirk's death, President Donald Trump says the 31-year-old was loved and admired by all. Tens of thousands of teachers in Alberta say they'll hit the picket line next month if a negotiated settlement isn't reached. The strike notice comes as public educators warn of chronic underfunding and overcrowding in schools.

Stephanie Cram reports. Students are being shortchanged and our teachers are being pushed to the brink. Alberta Teachers Association President Jason Schilling says a lack of action from the government means things will get worse. The union, which represents 51,000 teachers, says if a negotiated settlement isn't reached, teachers will hit the picket line on October 6th. Classroom sizes and teacher wages remain a sticking point. While the province is open to hiring more teachers, Premier Daniel Smith says there is no wiggle room on wages. But if they just come back and say, give us more money, that's not going to address the foundational issues we're hearing from teachers. The province says it offered a 12% wage increase over four years,

but the union says salaries are being outpaced by the growing cost of living and that adding more teachers to the classroom isn't enough to address the issues they face. Stephanie Cram, CBC News, Edmonton. Ten children in Richmond Hill just outside of Toronto have been injured when a vehicle drove into a child care center. York Regional Police say two of those children have serious injuries and were rushed to the hospital with parents. Officers also say the intersection around the center is closed.

An Edmonton woman pleaded guilty today to the manslaughter of an eight-year-old girl. She was initially charged with first-degree murder. Victim's family is furious that the charge was downgraded, as are the Edmonton police. Julia Wong has the latest. We don't feel like justice was served here today. Outrage outside the Edmonton courthouse from the relatives of an eight-year-old girl killed two years ago. Today, the woman accused in her death pleaded guilty to manslaughter as part of a plea deal. She was originally charged with first-degree murder.

Neither the woman nor the victim can be identified because of a publication ban. Edmonton police have taken the unprecedented step of asking Alberta justice officials to pull out of the plea deal, saying to go ahead would be a significant miscarriage of justice. Intram Edmonton police chief warned Dreikold. So I understand the concern that this may be overstepped by the police, but it really is a matter of last resort to kind of speak for a victim that can't speak for themselves here. A spokesperson for the Alberta Crown Prosecution Service tells CBC News it would be inappropriate to comment on the case.

Julia Wong, CBC News, Edmonton. Canadians are continuing to shun the U.S. as a travel destination. Statistics Canada says Canadian residents traveling to the U.S. by car was down 34% in August from the same month last year and travel by air was down more than 25%. This was the seventh consecutive month of year-over-year declines. The number of Americans traveling to Canada is also down, but by much less, 4.5% by car and 3.6% by air.

And finally, a NASA rover has found the strongest evidence yet of ancient life on Mars. The rock sample found on the bottom of what was once a lake shows possible signs, of ancient microbial life. Though the lead author on this study on the rock is urging some caution about these results, he says that the sample could indicate that microbes were once present,

but also could have been caused by chemical processes. And that is your world this hour. For news anytime, head to our website. That's at cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey. Thank you.