The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/11 at 00:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 11, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/11 at 00:00 EDT

This message is from Wise, the app for international money. With Wise, you can send, spend, and receive in up to 40 currencies with a fair exchange rate and no hidden fees. Download the Wise app or visit Wise.com. T's and C's Apply. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. One of the most prominent conservative activists in the U.S. has been murdered. Political commentator Charlie Kirk was shot while speaking at a university in Utah. The governor of the state calls it a political assassination.

Authorities are searching for a new person of interest tonight. Another man was taken into custody earlier, but released after being questioned. Aaron Collins reports. 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 non-profit 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 Charles. Kirk is dead. Charlie Kirk was 31 years old. Aaron Collins, CBC News, Washington. And tonight, U.S. President Donald Trump is paying tribute to Charlie Kirk in a video posted on his truth's social platform. Trump also blames the American far left for the murder. For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric. is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today, and it must stop

right now. Here in Canada, conservative leader Pierre Palliev posted on X, we must all strongly denounce the shooting of Charlie Kirk. Political violence is never justified. The attacker must be brought to justice, and free speech must be upheld. A toddler is dead after a vehicle crashed into a daycare in Richmond Hill north of Toronto. Six other children were also injured, one with life-threatening injuries, as well as three staff members. Constable Kevin Nebriahs with York Regional Police. It is still early investigation, but I can tell you that a man in his 70s has since been arrested in relation to this incident. We are still determining the sequence of events. However, information right now has led us to determine that this was not a deliberate act. The child

who died was one and a half. A Vancouver judge has ruled the man accused of killing 11 people in a car ramming attack is mentally fit to stand trial. The reasons behind the decision could not be shared because of a publication ban. The accused now faces

31 new charges. Kai G. Adam Lowe allegedly drove his SUV into a crowd at a Filipino street festival in April. He's been ordered to stay in custody. Prime Minister Mark Carney will announce the first batch of he calls Nation Building Projects in Edmonton Thursday. Major energy and infrastructure initiatives that he says

will spur economic growth and create much-needed jobs in this country. Olivia Stefanovic has exclusive details. CBC News has learned the first series of projects that Carney is advancing to the new major projects office for consideration. The information comes from a list shared on the condition of confidentiality. It includes a second-phase expansion of LNG Canada's plant in Kittamat, BC. That project would double the production of liquefied natural gas, a new nuclear project in southern Ontario.

It would make Canada the first G7 country to have an operational small modular reactor, developing a new copper and zinc mine in east central Saskatchewan, expansions to the port of Montreal, and the existing red-christ copper mine in northwest B.C. In addition to the five projects, Kearney will identify several others that are at an earlier stage of development. Olivia Estefanovich, CBC News, Edmonton. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland.