The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/18 at 20:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/18 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 McGilvery. Prime Minister Mark Carney has signed a new strategic partnership with Mexico. We'll unlock new opportunities for trade and investment from energy to agriculture to aerospace. Carney is in Mexico for a two-day visit with President Claudia Shane Baum. Their agreement is wide-ranging, but trade is a key element as Carney looks to strengthen a bilateral trading relationship with Mexico and works to try to preserve North America-wide free trade.

The trade agreement, Kusma, is set to be renegotiated next year. Carney and Shane Baum are also discussing issues like security, transnational crime, and drug smuggling. Democratic lawmakers in the United States are condemning the Trump administration and rallying around Jimmy Kimmel amid fears of a crackdown on free speech. Kimmel's show was pulled off the air after he made comments about slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, and his Hidari has the latest. You have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump. On a flight back to the U.S., President Donald Trump, telling reporters he thinks media outlets,

he doesn't say which ones, shouldn't be allowed to criticize him as much. They're licents. They're not allowed to do them. These comments, the day after ABC suspended the Jimmy Kimmel show, ostensibly over words about Charlie Kirk's alleged killer, though the network hasn't explained itself. It came after a federal regulator said, he might take action. The government may not use its power to squash political dissent.

Chris Van Hollen is a Democratic senator from Maryland. He says the Kimmel situation is just one example of Trump targeting, not just media, but universities and law firms for political purposes. Trump and his attorney general have vowed to go after groups and organizations whose views they disagree with. As for Trump, he didn't name anyone, but maybe implying if you only give bad press, it's bad news. And he's Hidari, CBC News, Washington. Israel's military is recommending the government stop allowing in humanitarian aid from Jordan destined for Gaza. Two soldiers are dead, shot by a driver bringing aid through a crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan. The driver was then also killed. The military

chief of staff says aid should be blocked until an inquiry is finished and there are new screening procedures for Jordanian drivers. Mark Carney has appointed David Lamedi as Canada's next ambassador to the U.N. Lamedi's a former justice minister, and until recently, Karni's principal secretary, he will replace former liberal leader Bob Ray, who has held the role since 2020. Temporary foreign workers in Prince Edward Island's seafood processing sector find themselves between a rock and a hard place. Chinese tariffs and poor environmental conditions are squeezing their industry.

She and Desjaldin reports. They love to get groceries, they self to pay bills. really hard to do that when you're not earning an income or you're only working 10 hours a week at minimum wage. Ryan McRae says that's the reality for hundreds of temporary foreign workers in PEI's seafood processing sector. He's with the Cooper Institute Migrant Worker Program. The province's industry is in uncharted waters as it navigates China's 25% tariff on Canadian seafood. McCrae says the impact is trickling down to foreign workers whose permits make it tricky to work anywhere else. People are incredibly desperate.

Another group says it's hearing similar stories across Atlantic Canada. But tariffs are just one challenge on PEI. The oyster industry is dealing with two diseases and the warm weather. And there is no clear fix. The PEI Seafood Processors Association says he can't comment on any one situation, but says hopefully things pick up and more work becomes available. Shia and Desjaldane, CBC News, Charlottetown. Alberta has laid charges against five people accused of wildlife poaching

and illegal trafficking. Among them, an American fugitive who had been living in the province. Officials say the man was wanted in the U.S. for killing and trafficking birds of prey. He fled to Canada and was residing on the Stony Nakota First Nation. Officials say he continued killing eagles and selling wildlife products here in Canada. And that is The World This Hour. For news anytime, you can always visit our website, cBCNews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey. Thank you.