The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/13 at 19:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 13, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/13 at 19:00 EDT

Hugh is a rock climber, a white supremacist, a Jewish neo-Nazi, a spam king, a crypto-billionaire, and then someone killed him. It is truly a mystery. It is truly a case of who done it. Dirtbag Climber, the story of the murder and the many lives of Jesse James. Available now wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, The World This Hour, I'm Kate McGilfrey. Tens of thousands of people were in the streets for an anti-immigration march in London today. The Unite the Kingdom Rally was organized by a far-right British activist.

Dominic Volitis reports. British police say at least 110,000 people attended today's Unite the Kingdom Rally in central London. Demonstrators carried banners reading, take back our country. and protect our borders, while chanting slogans about migration and national identity. Clashes broke out between police and protesters during the event. The authorities say some officers were attacked with projectiles thrown from the crowds. At times, the police had to intervene to keep demonstrators away from a smaller anti-racism counter-protest. The event, which was organized by the far-right activist Tommy Robinson was billed as a celebration of free speech

and a chance to mourn Charlie Kirk. The American conservative activists shot dead in Utah on Wednesday. Dominic Volaitis for CBC News, Bristol, England. There was an anti-immigration rally and counter-protest in Toronto today as well. At least seven people were arrested. Police and protesters from both sides filled a street near a downtown park. The initial event was called the Canada First Patriot Rally, with the event description calling for an end of mass immigration. Hundreds of counter-protesters showed up in response. Police say one man was arrested for assault.

They haven't said what charges the others are facing. When Parliament resumes next week, only seven new Democrat MPs will be there. The party's facing a mountain of campaign dead and won't have a permanent leader until next spring. Marina von Stackleberg joined the caucus in BC as it attempts to regroup. On the coast of Vancouver Island, Canada's new Democratic Party came to do some soul-searching. There's lots to talk about before MPs return to Ottawa next week. Don Davies is their interim leader. The NDP has to take a hard look at why our messages didn't resonate in the way that we wanted it to. After the party's worst election results in history, they went from 24 MPs down to just seven.

And in recent months, infighting became public. The new Democrats are down to a skeleton staff. They have to pay off campaign debt. And they won't have a new leader until March. This was once NDP territory. Now there's just one new Democrat MP left, Gore-Johns. This is a moment where Canadians need the New Democratic Party. They need us more than ever, and the seven of us are going to get everything we've got.

Marina von Stackleberg, CBC News, Parksville, British Columbia. Quebec's family doctors are taking the province to court. The Federation of General Practitioners accuses the Lago government of negotiating in bad faith. By introducing a bill that would allow the health minister to unilaterally set compensation and working conditions for GPs. It's the latest stage in what's proven to be rocky contract negotiation, between the government and its two Doctors' federations. There is no formal dispute resolution mechanism for doctors.

They're not allowed to go on strike. If there's no agreement in 90 days, the union wants any remaining issues to be sent to arbitration. Finally, the Toronto Argonauts honored actor and comedian John Candy with a tribute game in Toronto against the Edmonton Elks. Candy was a longtime CFL fan and co-owned the Argos for a time. His son, Chris Candy, spoke to CBC News about today. game. It's a perfect cherry on top of a very long week of getting to reintroduce my dad to the

world. And he loved football. He loved Canada. He was really rooting for the CFL. But he really loved the team and he loved all the people he worked with. So I think it was great for him to do that in his lifetime. John Candy is the subject of a new documentary, John Candy, I Like Me, which opened at TIF last week. That is The World This Hour. I'm Kate McGilfrey. Thank you.