The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/18 at 03:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/18 at 03:00 EDT

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Tees and Cs apply. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Neil Hurland. The American Network, ABC, has pulled the late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel off the air indefinitely. The move came after Kimmel performed a monologue that referenced Charlie Kirk, his alleged killer, and supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump. Steve Futterman reports from Los Angeles. Jimmy Kimmel's comments on Monday night suggested that conservative groups are trying to use Charlie Kirk's killing to their advantage. We hit some new lows over the weekend with the Maga Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from.

Kimmel then mocked Donald Trump for talking about construction of the White House ballroom while answering a question about Kirk. He's at the fourth stage of grief, construction. The suspension comes after Trump and Brendan Carr, the man he appointed to the FCC, attack Kimmel. David Frum is a longtime critic of Trump. He says Trump has a goal. What is happening now is part of a hastily developed strategy to seize this opportunity created by this terrible tragedy, to make political competition in the United States unfree and unfair. In a brief written statement, ABC said the show will be preempted indefinitely.

Steve Futterman, CBC News, Los Angeles. Angeles. Prime Minister Mark Carney is headed to Mexico City today. He'll meet with Mexican President Claudia Schenbaum at the National Palace in Mexico City. The two countries are trying to build stronger trade ties amid the U.S. tariff fight and ahead of the renewal of the North American free trade deal. Well, as the Prime Minister heads to Mexico today, CBC News is learning more about the hunt for a Canadian, thought to be hiding in Mexico. Ryan Wedding, once a team Canada Olympian is listed as one of the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives. And as Thomas Dagler reports, Mexico's president has been under pressure to do more to catch him.

We hope she will soon take action against major narco-traffickers like Ryan Wedding. A senior U.S. government official recently demanding the Mexican president intervene to ensure the arrest of an Ontario-born fugitive. Authorities say Ryan Wedding leads a transnational drug trafficking empire linked to the notorious Sinaloa cartel, all while benefiting from high-level help in Mexico, according to the State Department's Cartwright-Wiland. The cartels and government officials are working in tandem to allow for him to evade capture. Now, CBC News has learned Mexico has assigned its own federal agents to a task force hunting for wedding. One wedding to the line. Once an Olympic snowboarder, wedding has a $10 million bounty on his head, as one of

of the FBI's most wanted. U.S. prosecutors want wedding extradited to face charges related to cocaine trafficking and murder. Thomas Dagg, CBC News, Toronto. A Nova Scotia woman who applied for medical assistance in dying after years of being denied out of province care is now on the road to recovery. As Angela McIver reports, she recently had surgery paid for by the provincial government. For Jennifer Brady, this flight, marks the turning point in a six-year fight for her life. It's been, you know, a constant battle to get here. Brady has lymphedema, a chronic disease that causes fluid build-up in her legs.

After being repeatedly denied out-of-provence care by the Nova Scotia Health Department, last May she applied for medical assistance in dying. Doctors went to bat for her, and then last fall came a major court win. A judge ruled she was treated unfairly by health officials, clearing the path for surgery in New Jersey this past July, and she no longer wants to die. It's really scary thinking and looking back that I was in such a dark place.

Nova Scotia has a new review process for complex cases, and the Auditor General has begun a formal review of out-of-provence care thanks to Brady's fight. Angela McIver, CBC News, Halifax. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neal. Hill Herland.