The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/16 at 22:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/16 at 22:00 EDT

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Please play responsibly. Charitable gaming, community good. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. The government will table the federal budget November 4th. It's the first under Prime Minister Mark Carney. Francois Philippe Champagne is Canada's finance minister. He says the government 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 choice. 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 exactly what could be cut the liberals aren't saying.

Opposition leader Pierre Pollyev accuses the liberals of doubling the deficit with no plan to rein in spending. Christia Freeland says she's moving on. Freeland has been a fixture of Canadian politics for more than a decade, but now she's left Prime Minister Mark Carney's cabinet. Carney has asked her to take on a new role as Canada's special representative for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Tom Perry reports. Prime Minister Mark Carney walking past reporters alongside Christia Freeland at the end of what would be her last cabinet meeting. Freeland says she's stepping down as a minister and won't run in the next election.

I've had the good fortune of serving with Christian for 10 years, and she's been a role model and a leader in caucus. Liberal colleagues like Ontario MP James Maloney were quick to sing Freeland's praises. Freeland served under Justin Trudeau as Foreign Affairs Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Finance. It was in that role that she first resigned from Cabinet last December, a move that hastened Trudeau's decision to step down. Freeland says she's leaving not to spend more time with her family or because the burden. of office has become too great to bear, saying now is simply the right time to make way for others and seek new challenges. Tom Perry, CBC News, Ottawa. The CBC's French Language Network, Radio Canada, has suspended one of its correspondents indefinitely

for what the public broadcaster calls anti-Semitic, erroneous and harmful allegations. Rafi Bougicanian has details. On a flagship Radio Canada TV newscast, an anchor asks correspondent Elisa Serre how it is that the U.S. administration has such a hard time distancing itself from Israel. Cere cites unnamed analysts, says Israelis, in fact, Jews finance American politics and run Hollywood. It was not something that was appropriate in any space, but certainly on our national broadcaster. Ita Yudin is with the Center for Israel and Jewish. She says the advocacy organization received immediate complaints as the segment aired on Monday. In a statement, Radio Canada said Ceres allegations against Jewish communities regarding

U.S. policy in the Middle East were stereotypical, anti-Semitic, erroneous and harmful. It also said the comments violated CBC Radio Canada's journalistic standards and practices, relieved Cerey over duties until further notice, and apologized to viewers and the Jewish community. Rafi Bucucan. Yon CBC News, Orwa. The murder of Charlie Kirk is an American tragedy. That's Jeff Gray, the Utah County Attorney General, announcing he will seek the death penalty for the suspect in the killing of the conservative activist.

Tyler Robinson has also been charged with aggravated murder, obstruction of justice, and five other charges. The 22-year-old allegedly shot Kirk dead during 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, who was also his romantic partner on the day of the shooting.

Gray also says Robinson's DNA was found on the trigger of the rifle that fired the deadly shot. And that is your world day is sour. I'm Neil Hurland.