The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/11 at 06:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 11, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/11 at 06:00 EDT

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Tees and Cs apply. from cbc news it's the world this hour i'm joe cummings first to edmonton where later today prime minister mark carney is rolling out the first batch of his government's so-called nation building projects their energy and infrastructure initiatives that carney says will help canada move away from its economic reliance on the united states and cbcbc news has obtained a list of of what Carney is looking to start with. Here's Olivia Stavanovich. 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-criss copper mine in northwest BC. In addition to the five projects announced today, Kearney will identify several others that are at an earlier stage of development, including projects of critical minerals, wind power in Atlantic Canada,

carbon capture storage in Alberta, an upgrade to the port of Churchill in northern Manitoba, and the proposed high-speed rail line connecting to RON, to Quebec City. Olivia Stepanovich, CBC News, Edmonton. Meanwhile, the Ontario government says work is about to get underway on a road system to the province's mineral-rich ring-of-fire region. And while some First Nations communities are on board, others aren't.

Michelle Allen reports. Building the corridor to prosperity... Ontario Minister of Indigenous Affairs, Greg Rickford, says the province will spend just under $62 million to build a road to the ring of fire. The mining region in northern Ontario is rich in minerals including gold, copper, and nickel. The road would connect Webiquet First Nation and Martin Falls First Nation to the provincial highway system and to mining activities. They're currently only accessible by air or seasonal ice road.

Cornelius Wabas is Webbeckway's chief. We have to somehow find ways to flourish, you know, on that reservation. But some other nearby First Nations disagree. Chief Gary Quisis of Nishandiga First Nations says many oppose the road being built on their traditional territories. Because it's our livelihood. Cressie says Nishandiga and Attawapiscat are building a settlement to block the road into the ring of fire.

Michelle Allen, CBC News, Thunder Bay. The search continues in northern Utah for the gunmen who shot and killed controversial American commentator Charlie Kirk. The 31-year-old was murdered yesterday in the grounds of a college campus and what the governor of Utah is calling a political assassination. Steve Futterman has the latest. Law enforcement officials here in Utah are looking for a killer. And if they have any clues, they are not revealing those clues to us right now.

Now, a number of hours ago, there was a person being questioned in custody. That person was called a person of interest. It was felt that authorities seemed fairly confident that that person might be the person they were looking for, but eventually that person was released. Now, right now, detectives, other law enforcement officials are going through every nook and cranny at the school trying to come up with any possible clues. They're trying to look at cell phone videos. They're trying to look at security videos.

They're also using a number of high-tech methods to identify who may have been at the site where the shooting took place. They feel the shot was fired from around 200 meters away, just one single shot. They believe it was done by someone highly proficient, and that one shot killed Charlie Kirk. Steve Futterman for CBC News outside the Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. Opening statements begin this morning in Fort Pierce, Florida, and the trial of the man charged with attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump last September. Ronald Routh has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempting to assassinate a presidential candidate. Prosecutors say a secret service agent thwarted Roots' attempt to shoot Trump when Trump was playing golf and campaigning for a second term in office.

And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings. Thanks.