The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/18 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/18 at 12:00 EDT

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We go first to U.S. President Donald Trump and the suspension of late-night talk show host, Jimmy Kimmel. Well, Jimmy Kimmel was fired because he had bad ratings more than anything else, and he said a horrible thing about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk, and Jimmy Kimmel is not a talented person. and he had very bad ratings, and they should have fired him a long time ago. So, you know, you can call that free speech or not. He was fired for lack of talent. That's Trump speaking today in Britain at the end of his two-day state visit.

The Kimmel show has been taken off the air indefinitely after Kimmel suggested earlier this week that Trump's supporters have been looking to capitalize on Charlie Kirk's murder. The network says it took the action after a number of ABC affiliates. Let it be known they would not be carrying the show going forward. In Washington, Minority Senate Leader Chuck Schumer says freedom of speech is under attack. This is just despicable, disgusting, and against democratic values. Trump and his allies seem to want to shut down speech that they don't like to hear. That is not what democracies do. That is what autocracies do. The Kimmel suspension follows the CBS announcement that it's shutting down the late show with Stephen Colbert at the end of this season.

CBS insists it's a financial decision. The Canadian Climate Institute has issued a bleak update on Canada's short-term emission goals. Simply put, it says a key first target is now out of reach. Anayette Singh has the details. Canada will not hit its 2030 target. That stark warning about our carbon emissions goals comes from leading think tank, the Canadian Climate Institute, based on its early estimates of last year's emissions. Dave Sawyer is the Institute's principal economist.

The reductions required to get from where we are today to there would require 40 megatons of reductions a year. And we have no precedent for it. And we certainly don't have policy. Emissions from the oil and gas industry actually rose in 2024, canceling out any reductions in other sectors of the economy. But Environment Minister Julie DeBrusin says this doesn't mean her government isn't continuing to work on the issue. There's going to be a climate competitiveness strategy that we're putting out, very much the way we're approaching it. The federal government has indicated that it will tweak policies related to large industrial emitters and is in talks with Alberta over oil and gas emissions policy.

In Ayat Singh, CBC News, Toronto. Prime Minister Mark Carney is on his way to Mexico City for a two-day visit. He's expected to sign a strategic partnership agreement with Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum. Senior government officials in Ottawa are saying the agreement, will cover trade, agriculture, security, and emergency preparedness. The deadline is fast approaching for Ottawa to release its review of the F-35 fighter jet purchase. If the government decides not to go ahead with the $27 billion deal, it might be considered the ultimate boycott move against the United States. But as Murray Brewster reports, the F-35 is not the only U.S.-made product the Canadian military has on order.

The Prime Minister was very clear by the end of the summer, which is September. 21st. He'll have a decision. You have to have some sympathy for defense minister David McGinty. Almost every time he sticks his head out in public, somebody asks when we'll see the review of the F-35 fighter jet purchase. There's no denying that there are some sensitivities. Retired Vice Admiral Mark Norman, who says deciding to limit the fighter jet purchase risks angering the Americans. Deciding to go forward risks angering boycott-minded Canadians. Prime Minister Mark Carney promised Canada would buy. less from the U.S. and more from other allies.

Wendy Gilmore is a former Canadian NATO defense official. They will be looking very clearly at what is needed and in the pipeline right now and should not be disturbed. And what are the new capabilities for which there isn't yet anything under contract? Gilmore says there is room to explain the predicament to the public, but the government will have to be up front. Marie Brewster, CBC News, Ottawa. And that is the world this hour.

For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.