The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/19 at 01:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/19 at 01:00 EDT

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Please play responsibly. Charitable gaming, community good. From CBC News, the world is sour. I'm Neil Kumar. Prime Minister Mark Carney has signed a new strategic partnership with Mexico. Carnies in Mexico for a two-day visit with President Claudia Shanebaum. Their agreement is wide-ranging, but trade is a key element

as Carney looks to strengthen a bilateral trading relationship with Mexico and works with the country to try to preserve North American wide free trade. The trade agreement, Kusma, is set to be renegotiated next year. Carney and Shanebaum are also discussing issues like security, transnational crime, and

drug smuggling. In France, union members and other workers went on strike for the day, and students marched out of their high schools. They want more spending on public services and higher taxes on the wealthy. They're also demanding a reversal of change that requires people to work longer before getting a pension. Mary-Leese-Leon is the Secretary-General of France's largest union. It's important for us to be all together. All trade unions are in this

manifestation and we have just a message to the government. It's no austerity. And we would like fiscality and justice. It's very important for the workers. The goal is to turn up the heat on new Prime Minister Sebastian Le Cronru and President Emmanuel Macron. The politicians are in a battle both in Parliament and on the streets about how to fix France's struggles with high debt. Toronto Blue Jays fans would not have predicted this in the spring,

but now, as Major League Baseball's regular season winds down, play-of-hype is ramping up. There's a buzz that Canada's only team could be on a path to the World Series. Thomas Degla, has that story. Man, the Jay's defense is just unreal. The club's front office chose this season to keep the same leadership and the same core roster, from Slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to veteran George Springer.

And has it ever paid off? So then he hits it high and deep to left, and it's gone. The team has been on a tear, leading the American League in hits and batting average, sending the Jay's soaring to the top of the state. standings. Now, Toronto was on track to win the division title again. Sportsnet has even struck a rare deal with Apple TV, ensuring tomorrow's key matchup in Kansas City is broadcast across Canada and not just on a streaming platform, a sign of the growing hype around the Jays. Thomas Dagg at CBC News, Toronto.

A political firestorm continues in the United States as U.S. Democrats prepared new legislation aimed at protecting free speech. That's after Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show was abruptly pulled off the air, following his comments on slaying conservative activist Charlie Kirk and on Trump's reaction to it. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is accusing the Trump administration of systematically silencing its critics. This is an assault on everything this country has stood for

since the Constitution's been signed. They don't want people to even speak when they don't like what they say. That is the road to autocracy. The Democrats bill entitled The No Political Enemies Act outlines a series of legal protections for people targeted for political speech, though it's unlikely to successfully become law. Alberta has laid five charges against five people accused of wildlife poaching and illegal trafficking. Among them is an American fugitive who's 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 Dakota First Nation.

officials say he continued killing eagles and selling wildlife products in Canada. And that is your world this hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcast, we update every hour, seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Neil Kumar. Thank you.