The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/11 at 08:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 11, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/11 at 08:00 EDT

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The debater's 20th anniversary season, comedy, worth arguing about. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. Mark Carney calls them nation-building projects. They are energy and infrastructure initiatives. The Prime Minister and the provinces, all say will help Canada move away

from its economic reliance on the United States. And CBC News has obtained a list of the first five the federal government is rolling out today. Janice McGregor reports. When you go down the list, there's evidence of trying to give something to everyone around the Premier's table. And so we have not just one or two priorities, but five projects deemed ready to go. And a further half-dozen priorities the government wants hurried along. From LNG expansion in the West to wind energy in the east with port expansions, critical minerals mining and high-speed rail in between.

While this list does enable more fossil fuel development like carbon capture and storage projects, it also fast-tracks projects key to more electrification, like innovating with small modular reactors at the Ontario-Darlington nuclear facility, the political peril for Mark Carney's government is that you can't make progress until you pick your priorities,

and it is tough to please everyone. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. Meanwhile, Ontario 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 community are very much 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 Weber Quay 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 Weberquay's chief. We have to somehow find ways to flourish, you know, on that reservation. But some other nearby First Nations disagree. Chief Gary Quassiz of Nishandiga First Nations says many oppose the road being built on their traditional territories. Because it's our livelihood. Chrisi says Nishandiga and Attawapisgat are building a settlement to block the road into the ring of fire.

Michelle Allen, CBC News, Thunder Bay. British Prime Minister Kier Starmra has fired the country's ambassador to the United States over his links to Jeffrey Epstein. It's being revealed that Peter Mandelson wrote a letter to the convicted pedophile calling him, quote, my best pal. There's also a similar email. The British Foreign Office is saying it was not aware of the extent of this relationship when Mandelson was a point. ambassador. The search continues in Utah for the gunman responsible for the murder of Charlie Kirk. The 31-year-old controversial commentator was shot and killed on the grounds of a college campus yesterday in what the governor of Utah is calling a political assassination. Police believe the shooter fired

from a roof and escaped in the chaos that followed. Kirk was a popular conservative podcaster and an ally of President Donald Trump. 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. Prime Minister Mark Carney has issued a statement on the shooting saying there is no justification for political violence and every active it threatens democracy. A new report is suggesting that Canada's weather service could be great improved by a coordinated flash flood warning system and deeper ties with European countries.

The Environment and Climate Change Canada Association has issued the report, and it's suggesting that the cuts to U.S. national atmospheric administration officials threaten a wide range of weather and water monitoring here in Canada from the Arctic to the Great Lakes. And that is the world this hour. For news anytime, go to our website, CBCNews. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.