The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/15 at 13:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 15, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/15 at 13:00 EDT

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Please play responsibly. Charitable gaming, community good. from cbc news the world this hour i'm gina louise phillips a quebec mother accused of abandoning her daughter has been found not criminally responsible due to her mental state her daughter was found alive after an intensive multi-day search earlier this summer sarah levitt has more both the defense and prosecution agreed and now the judge has made it official the mother who left her three-year-old daughter on the side of the highway in june is not criminally responsible responsible due to a mental disorder. She faced two charges, child abandonment and criminal negligence causing bodily harm. Her daughter was the subject of an intensive three-day search in June when the mother, who can't be named due to a publication ban, reported her missing. The daughter was found in Ontario, alive and safe, but dehydrated. According to a psychiatric evaluation conducted over a two-month period, the mother suffered from a mix of a manic psychotic

episode at the time of the event, which prevented her from knowing right from wrong. The court also learned the daughter now suffers from nightmares and fears being left alone. Now, arguments are ongoing about the mother's future and if she will remain in detention. Sarah Levitt's CBC News in Montreal. Toronto police have charged a 12 and 20-year-old with second-degree murder of a homeless man. Detective Sergeant Stacey McCabe says the homicide was part of a series of violent attacks on the morning of August 31st in downtown Toronto. The 62-year-old victim was among at least five people to get assaulted. Unprovoked, they began violently beating this male. One of them was armed with a hammer. It is this victim that later succumbed to his injuries. All of these attacks were extremely violent, and they

targeted vulnerable members of our city. Police believe more people may have been approached by the accused on the day of the attacks and are asking them to come forward with more information. The Canadian Real Estate Association says home sales across the country have increased in August for the fifth month in a row. The only exception was the greater Toronto area, where sales fell slightly compared to the month before. The selling prices continued to slide a little. The average sale price of a home sold in August was just over 664,000. Voters in Newfoundland and Labrador are going to the polls. We're heading to the polls on October 14th, 2025.

for a provincial election here in Newfoundland and Labrador. It's a very exciting day, a great day. Premier John Hogan visited the Lieutenant General who agreed to dissolve the legislature. Hogan leads the province's Liberal Party. He says his campaign will focus on health care and education, as well as completing the deal with Quebec on the future of the Churchill Falls Plant in Labrador.

Elizabeth May hopes the government will explain Canada's climate future during the new parliament that began its fall session today. The Green Party leader saying Prime Minister Mark Carney is removing key elements of climate action. May says she wants to know what the plan is instead for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. I'm not wedded to a carbon price as a way to reduce emissions, but if you're not going to have the one thing that was working, what do you put in place instead? And if you put a pause on the EV mandate and you talk about fossil fuel infrastructure being potentially acceptable, then you've lost the plot. May says Canada has an obligation under international law to meet emissions targets under the Paris Agreement by 2030.

And even before changes under Carney, Canada wasn't close to meeting those targets. Both the U.S. and China say they have reached a deal for the ownership of TikTok. Trade representative, Jamie Singh Greer, was part of the U.S. delegation at talks in Madrid. We were very focused on TikTok and making sure that it was a deal that is, is fair for the Chinese and completely respects U.S. national security concerns, and that's the deal we reached. The details of the deal are scarce, scarce, excuse me. President Donald Trump had threatened to ban the video-sharing app

unless it was sold to an American owner. Washington alleged that Beijing could use the app to spy on, blackmail, or censor its American users. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. Thank you.