The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/13 at 21:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/13 at 21:00 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 is sour. I'm Neil Kumar. At least seven people were arrested in Toronto today at an anti-immigration rally and counter-protest. 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 the 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. Some signs of normalcy are returning to Nepal, where violent anti-corruption protests, forced the country's former leader to resign this week. South Asia correspondent Salima Shifchi has more on where the Himalayan nation goes from here. It's been only a few days since violent protests abruptly toppled the government of this South Asian country,

and a fragile calm now reigns with the army on alert. During breaks in the days-long curfew lifted early this morning, young students who led what's being called the Gen Z protests swept the streets of the capital. I feel happy, I feel proud. I feel good. 25-year-old Sajan Shrestha's joy that the protests succeeded in bringing down a government accused of corruption and nepotism in just 48 hours. In all, more than 50 people were killed in the clashes, protesters and police officers,

and more than 12,000 prisoners escaped from jails in all the chaos. Another major challenge, the Gen Z protests grew organically, and there's no single leader. Disparate groups agreed to have former Supreme, Court Justice Sushila Karki appointed as interim prime minister late Friday and Nepal's parliament was dissolved. Salima Shivjee, CBC News, Mumbai. Quebec's family doctors are taking the province to court. The Federation of General Practitioners accuses the Lago government of negotiating in bad faith after introducing a bill that would allow

the health minister to unilaterally set compensation and working conditions for GPs. There's no formal dispute resolution mechanism for doctors and they're not allowed to strike. If there's no agreement within 90 days, the union wants any remaining issues to be sent to binding arbitration. As Parliament gets set to resume next week, there will only be seven new Democrat MPs who will be there. The party's facing a mountain of campaign debt and won't have a permanent leader until next spring. Marina von Stalkabert joined the caucus in BC as it tried 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, Gorge 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. And finally, the Toronto Argonauts honored actor and comedian John Candy with the tribute game in Toronto against the Edmonton Elves. Candy was a long-time CFL fan, and he co-owned the Argos from 1991 to 1994, overseeing the team's Grey Cup win in 1991.

His son, Chris Candy, spoke to CBC News about the 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. Candy is the subject of the new documentary that opened at TIF called John Candy. I like me. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Kumar.