The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/11 at 19:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 11, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/11 at 19:00 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.

The NHL has announced five former world junior hockey players acquitted on sexual assault charges can return to play as of December. The men will be eligible to sign with a team as soon as October 15th. Karen Pauls has the latest. It was a case that gripped Canadians, the legal community, and hockey fans around the world. Michael McLeod, Alex Formanton, Carter Hart, Dylan Dubay, and Cal Foote, were charged with sexually assaulting a woman in a London, Ontario hotel room in June of 2018. They all pleaded not guilty and were acquitted by a judge in July.

Thursday, the NHL cleared the way for them to return to the ice. MacLeod, Hart, Dubay, and Foote can sign contracts with any team. Formanton would have to sign with the Ottawa Senators by December 1st to be eligible for games this season, although he signed with a Swiss team last week. The NHL says the events of that night were deeply troubling and unacceptable and fall woefully short of the league's standards. Still, it says each of the players have expressed regret and remorse, so after two years away from NHL ICE, they'll be allowed to return.

Karen Paul's CBC News, Winnipeg. Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled his first list of big nation building projects today. As Olivia Stefanovic reports, Ottawa will fast track the projects for approvals. We used to build big things in this country. It's time to get back at it. Prime Minister Mark Carney promising to boost the slowing Canadian economy with five major infrastructure and energy projects across the country. We will build with Canadian steel, Canadian lumber, Canadian aluminum. Carney's initial list includes the second phase of LNG Canada in Northern British Columbia, a new nuclear project in southern Ontario, a copper and zinc

mine in east central Saskatchewan, along with the expansions to the port of Montreal and the existing red-criss copper mine in northwest BC. The projects are already quite advanced and have gone through indigenous consultation. Carney says these projects will require federal dollars to spur private investment, but isn't yet saying how much. Carney says a second set of projects will be announced by the Grey Cup in mid-November. Olivia Stepanovich, CBC News. Edmonton. The man accused in a deadly crash at a daycare center north of Toronto has been released on bail. An 18-month-old child was killed when the suspect in his 70s allegedly drove his car into the building in Richmond Hill. A second child is in critical condition in hospital.

Eight others were injured. The man is facing one charge of dangerous driving causing death and two counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm. Authorities in Utah continue to search for a suspect in the killing of Charlie Kirk. The conservative commentator and close ally of U.S. President Donald Trump was fatally shot yesterday during a rally at a Utah university. Bo Mason is commissioner of Utah's Department of Public Safety. Suspect blended in well with a college institution. That individual appears to be of college age.

We are confident in our abilities to track that individual. Authorities have recovered a high-powered rifle in a wooded area where they believe the suspect fled. The FBI has also released photos of a person of interest and announced a $100,000 reward for information leading to the killer's arrest. Trump says he is posthumously awarding a presidential medal of freedom to Kirk and will attend his funeral. NATO is strengthening its defenses after Russian incursions into Polish airspace. Poland shot down multiple drones earlier this week. Russia said it did not intend to hit any targets there. The check The Republic is sending helicopters and troops to Poland, and France and Britain are sending extra aircraft to secure NATO's eastern flank.

Germany says it will permanently station a brigade in Lithuania. 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 McGilfrey.