The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/16 at 20:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/16 at 20:00 EDT

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Please play responsibly. Charitable gaming, community good. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Kate McGilfrey. The government will table the federal budget on November 4th. It's the first under Prime Minister Carney. Finance Minister Francois Filippe Champagne says Canada needs to lower its spending, but also invest more.

I'm not sugar-coating anything. I've said this is going to be a generational investment. We're going to have to make tough choices. We're going to be asking from Canadians to work together with us because they understand this is a transformational moment. This is nothing like business as usual. Earlier this year, ministers were asked to find ambitious savings, but what exactly could be cut liberals aren't saying yet.

Carney has already pledged billions of dollars in new spending for housing, defense, and tariff relief. Opposition leader Pierre Pollyev accuses the liberals of doubling the deficit with no plan to rein in spending. Transport Minister Christia Freeland is quitting the liberal. cabinet and will not run in the next election. She will continue on as an MP, at least for now. Kate McKenna has more.

This is a new job? Can you talk to us about your new job? How about some sort of soundbikes? Krista Freeland left her last cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning. She's leaving her role as transport minister to serve as special representative for the reconstruction of Ukraine. For more than a decade, Freeland has been a key figure on Parliament Hill. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says she will be missed. Yeah, she's always a friend. I talk to her almost daily.

and buy daily, and she's a good person, and she'll do a great job over in Ukraine, and I support her all the way. Freeland played a leading role in renegotiating NAFTA and signing a trade deal with Europe. She also resigned from Cabinet last fall, setting into motion the events that would see Justin Trudeau resign. In a letter posted on social media, she thanked Canadians for the privilege of serving. Kate McKenna, CBC News, Ottawa. As for Freeland's previous role, it is being split up. Canada-U.S. Trade Minister, Dominic LeBlanc, will absorb Freelan's internal trade duties, and government house leader Stephen McKinnon will take on transport. Both ministers were sworn into their new roles this afternoon.

Food Banks, Canada, published its annual Poverty Report Card, and it's giving Canada a failing grade when it comes to housing affordability, access to health care, and adequate government support. It says households earning $75,000 a year or less are spending 90% of their income on essentials, like housing, transportation, groceries, and utilities. It also says that one in four Canadians are currently experiencing some level of food insecurity. The murder of Charlie Kirk is an American tragedy. Utah County Attorney General Jeff Gray says he will seek the death penalty for the suspect in the killing of the right-wing activist. Tyler Robinson has also been charged with aggravated murder, obstruction of justice, and five other charges.

The 22-year-old allegedly shot Kirk Ted hosting an event at Utah Valley University last week. Charlie Kirk was murdered while engaging in one of our most sacred and cherished American rights, the bedrock of our Democratic Republic, the free exchange of ideas. Gray says Robinson confessed to murdering Kirk in text messages he exchanged with his roommate on the day of the shooting. Gray also says Robinson's DNA was found on the trigger of the rifle that fired the fatal shot. And Torontoans are marveling over an emergency landing, that saw a small passenger plane touching down safely in a high school soccer field. The four-seater plane was flying over downtown Toronto yesterday when it experienced engine failure.

Audio of the pilot speaking with air traffic control shows the challenge of finding a clear landing place in a city of millions. Not exactly seeing anywhere to land here. Actually, go, Charlie, can you make it, you find a highway or a street that seems very busy or a park or something? I am looking. I'm landing at a soccer field. There are people, though. Okay, can you just maybe find the gap with no people? The plane was successfully landed between the bleachers and a storage shed.

Nobody was hurt, including those on board. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is now investigating what happened. And that is The World This Hour. For headlines any time go straight to our website, cBCNews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey. Thank you.