The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/14 at 00:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/14 at 00:00 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 this hour, I'm Neil Kumar. We begin in Toronto, where police made several rests at a downtown park on Saturday in response to a protest and a council. protest centering on the issue of immigration. Nama Weingarten tells us more about the rallies

and what it shows about the political climate in Canada and beyond. Christy Pitts Park turning into a pressure cooker the standoff brewing when a demonstration dubbed the Canada First Patriot Rally came about, opposing Canada's immigration policies. When you allow millions of people from other countries around the world, it puts strain on our resources. It's already unrecognizable. in this country. And I know many people share that same sentiment. I'm not saying no to immigrants.

I say we need to slow it down. We need to be more, I guess, careful about who we bring into this country. Groups opposing their message came together to organize a counter-rally, saying racism has no place here. In London, over 100,000 people attended an anti-immigration rally. One of the biggest far right to demonstrations in the U.K. in recent years, with counter-protesters outnumbered. Here in Toronto, a different scene. Nama Wine Garden, CBC News, Toronto. The widow of Charlie Kirk is vowed to continue her husband's work. Erica Kirk made her first public comments since his assassination,

addressing the quote, evil-doers who are responsible for his death. You have no idea the fire that you have ignited within this wife, The cries of this widow will echo around the world like a battle cry. To everyone listening tonight across America, the movement my husband built will not die. Kirk says her husband's organization, Turning Point USA, will continue its tours of university campuses. A professor at the University of Toronto has been placed on leave after posting a comment about Kirk's death. Screenshots of Ruth Marshall's ex-account show a post on Wednesday, which says, quote, shooting is honestly too good for so many of you fascist expletives.

The university says it took immediate action. CBC reached out to Marshall but is not heard back. An Ontario man is issuing a warning about a rare but real phenomenon. He experienced called AI psychosis. Alan Brooks says a simple question to a chat bot about the number pie spiraled into a 300-hour-long exchange over three weeks. He says chat GBT tried to convince him that he had created a new way of seeing the world. terror, paranoia, obsession.

I was oscillating between reality and delusion on a regular basis. I wasn't sure to believe it, or if I shouldn't believe it. It's messaging and its gaslighting is so powerful when you're engaged with it, especially when you trust it, right? Brooks is calling for tech companies to establish safeguards for artificial intentions, chatbots. In Halifax, protesters continue to voice their opposition to Israel's participation in the Davis Cup tennis tournament. Tennis Canada chose to hold the matches without spectators citing safety concerns, but security agencies are denying giving that advice. Julana Grillo has more.

Three local and national authorities are denying they were part of Tennis Canada's decision to hold a Canada-Israel Davis Cup matches without spectators this weekend in Halifax. On Tuesday, Tennis Canada announced fans would not be allowed into the Scotia Bank Center due to escalating safety concerns, citing intelligence received from low. local and national security agencies, when asked which agencies were referred to in the statement, a spokesperson for Tennis Canada pointed to Halifax Regional Police, the RCMP, and Canada's National Intelligence Service, ceases. But all three told CBC News via email they were not consulted. Tennis Canada declined an interview and said the organization had received credible information

from multiple sources. But the spokesperson did not reveal where the information came from. The matches are proceeding behind closed doors. Julianne Agrilylo, CBC News, Halifax. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Kumar.