The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/15 at 22:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 16, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/15 at 22:00 EDT

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Tees and Cs apply. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. We begin with breaking news from Toronto. A small plane has crashed in the middle of a field in the city's east end. It happened near Toronto's Monarch Park. Three people were on board the aircraft. All of them walked away uninjured.

David Sidney Carrelia witnessed the crash. Just above us, maybe... 300 feet in the air, 200 feet in air. We just saw the plane kind of going from west to east. And it was just getting lower, and all of a sudden it was out of sight. And then we heard a big crashing sound. And the next thing you know, we came to see that it had rested just over here close to Monterec Parkfield. Investigators will now try to determine what caused the small plane to crash.

Parliament resumed in Ottawa today, the Prime Minister says the economy, is his priority this fall, but fixing it won't be easy. Mark Carney says help is coming in his first budget. But as Rafi Bujikanian reports, critics warn it could dig the country deeper into debt. It's substantial and needs to be dealt with. Government House leader Stephen McKinnon says there is no sugar-coating the scope of the deficit, even as he says his colleagues have been directed to find savings. The last projected deficit was $62 billion, leaving the door open to,

to this kind of attack by official opposition leader Pierre Palliev in the House of Commons. This is a prime minister who said we'd have the fastest growing economy in the G7. We have the fastest shrinking economy in the G7. He said grocery prices would go down. They're going up faster than ever before. Prime Minister Mark Carney warning in response of the stark moments ahead. We need to be clear about the scale of the crisis we are in. Those investments so far include a $9 billion increase in defense spending,

13 billion for the federal government's new housing agency. Unspecified amounts for the new so-called nation-building projects announced last week, also unspecified exactly where the government will find its cuts. Rafi Bucucan, Yon-CBC News, Ottawa. Voters in Newfoundland and Labrador are going to the polls. We're heading to the polls on October 14th, 2025, for provincial election here in Newfoundland and Labrador. So a very exciting day, great day.

Premier John Hogan visited the lieutenant governor, 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 power plant in Labrador. Alberta will soon be adding citizenship information to its driver's licenses. As Julia Wong reports, the provincial government says it will be a way to help people better access services and to fight election fraud. Alberta will be the first province to implement the addition of Canadian citizenship markers to our driver's licenses and identification cards. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says adding citizenship information onto driver's licenses

will streamline access to provincial services, like applying for student aid and disability benefits. The provincial government says Albertans will be able to carry fewer pieces of identification. Smith says it will also ensure integrity during elections, since only Canadian citizens can cast a ballot. Citizenship is a requirement to vote, and so it just seems like that is an obvious way of making sure the integrity of our voting system is when people can have confidence in by making sure that it's nice and easy to be able to prove citizenship if challenged. The changes will come into effect in late 2026. At that point, Albertans will be required to bring proof of citizenship when getting or renewing their license.

Julia Wong, CBC News, Edmonton. The American president is sending the U.S. National Guard to Memphis, Tennessee. Donald Trump says he wants to create a task force there as part of his broad plan to reduce crime and violence. I'm signing a presidential memorandum to establish the Memphis Safe Task Force, and it's very important because of the crime that's going on, not only in Memphis, in many cities that we're going to take care of all of them, step by step. Trump says the task force will be modeled after the federal crime crackdown in Washington

last month. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland. Thank you.