The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/10 at 20:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 11, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/10 at 20:00 EDT

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officials say a person of interest is in custody erin collins has more charlie kirk was speaking at utah valley University when officials say a single shot was fired at him Wednesday afternoon from an estimated 200 meters away. Unconfirmed video shows the 31-year-old right-wing political activist being hit in the upper body and then falling back off of his chair. His nonprofit organization was dedicated to spreading conservative ideas on high school and university campuses. Kirk had been a big supporter of Donald Trump credited with helping him win the last presidential election. and it was Trump that broke the news of Kirk's death, posting on social media that the great and even legendary Charlie Kirk is dead. No one understood or had the heart of the youth in the United States of America better than Charlie.

Charlie Kirk was 31 years old. Aaron Collins, CBC News, Washington. A toddler was killed and six other children and three adults injured when a vehicle drove into a child care center in the Toronto area. Photos of the scene in the suburb of Richmond Hill show a completely shattered ground floor window. A man in his 70s was arrested on site. Police say they believe it was not a deliberate act. Prime Minister Mark Carney is setting an ambitious agenda

for the fall sitting of Parliament. He's laying out his government's economic and legislative goals at the Liberal Caucus retreat in Edmonton. As Olivia Stefanovic reports, Carney is priming Canadians for big changes. These are tough times. We have to make tough choices. for a better future. Prime Minister Mark Carney says the scale of change his government is planning

won't be easy, but he says it's necessary to ensure Canada isn't reliant on its main trading partner anymore. What's happening in the global economy is not a transition. It's a rupture. Karnie says his government is still focused on building a new economic and security relationship with the U.S. But it's also working with other countries to expand markets. And in the fall budget, the Prime Minister promises to cut spending so Canadians can invest more. Next week, Carney says his government will unveil its plan to double the pace of housing construction over the next decade. And tomorrow, the Prime Minister will announce the first batch of major projects, but the list

will not include a new oil pipeline. Olivia Estefanovich, CBC News, Edmonton. Protesters and police clashed in cities across France today. Police in Montpellier used water cannons and tear gas. Demonstrators angry about austerity measures, obstructed highways, set fires, and barred access to some buildings and schools. The demonstrations are part of a massive online movement called Block Everything. Demonstrators say defense policies, eat up public funds that should be used for hospitals and schools. French authorities deployed about 80,000 security forces members throughout the country,

Nearly 300 protesters were arrested across France. And NASA says it has found the strongest evidence yet that Mars may have once harbored life. Here's NASA scientist, Nikki Fox. It's a signature. It's a sort of leftover sign. It's not life itself. In this case, it's kind of the equivalent of seeing like leftover fossils, you know, leftovers from a meal. And that's what we're seeing in this sample.

Fox is talking about what's known as the Sapphire Canyon sample. The rock has small gravel-sized markings that could have been left there by some kind of organism billions of years ago. Scientists aren't ruling out that a chemical process could be responsible for the markings on the rock. The only way to be sure is to transport it to Earth for further study. And that is The World This Hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts. We update every hour, seven days a week for CBC News.

I'm Kate McGilvery.