The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/19 at 18:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/19 at 18:00 EDT

Hugh is a rock climber, a white supremacist, a Jewish neo-Nazi, a spam king, a crypto-billionaire, and then someone killed him. It is truly a mystery. It is truly a case of who done it. Dirtbag Climber, the story of the murder and the many lives of Jesse James. Available now wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, The World This Hour, I'm Dave Seckland's. A prominent Republican is criticizing the head of the U.S. communications regulator over threats made against broadcasters.

FCC's chair, Brendan Carr, threatened to impose fines or pull licenses for broadcasters that aired Jimmy Kimmel Live. Well, speaking on a podcast today, Republican Senator Ted Cruz called Carr's comments dangerous. He threatens it. He says, we can do this the easy way. we can do this the hard way. And I've got to say, that's right out of Goodfellas.

That's right out of a mafioso coming into a bar going, nice bar you have here. It'd be a shame of something happened to it. ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel live indefinitely after Kimmel's commentary about the assassination of far-right activist Charlie Kirk. The decision comes as President Donald Trump continues to pressure broadcasters to stop airing content that he has found objectionable. The head of the FCC has yet to respond.

Russia has violated the airspace of another NATO country, according to officials in Estonia. The Baltic country summoned a Russian diplomat to protest after three Russian fighter jets entered its airspace without permission and stayed there for 12 minutes. NATO and the European Union are condemning the incursion. EU's foreign policy chief, Kayakala, says Russia is testing how far it can go. We must show no weakness because weakness is something that invites. Russia to do more, and they are increasingly more dangerous, not only to Ukraine, but also to all the countries around Russia.

This latest airspace violation comes just over a week after NATO planes downed several Russian drones over Poland. Here at home, intimidating people at places of worship and displaying hate symbols in public could soon be criminal offenses in Canada. The federal government is tabling a bill designed to crack down on the rising number of hate-related incidents in this country. David Thurton has details. We are moving forward with a piece of legislation that will create four new criminal offenses. The first two are aimed at protecting religious institutions.

Justice Minister Sean Fraser says his bill would make it a crime to target not just places of worship, but schools and community centers associated with them. The proposed legislation also makes it an offense to willfully promote hate through symbols, particularly the swastika or images tied to organizations listed as a terrorist group. All this, while respecting charter rights of freedom of expression, according to the minister. This bill goes to great lengths to specifically protect the ability of Canadians to take part in peaceful protests and to freely express themselves in a nonviolent way. For the first time, the government is also adding a definition for hatred to the Criminal Code.

David Thornton, CBC News, Ottawa. A small community on Quebec's Lower North Shore is celebrating a separate. sudden windfall. Fourteen people in St. Paul's River, almost one in ten of the residents, will split a $50 million lotto-max prize. Breanne Fackett has more on the celebrations and the plans for the future. I knew that I won. Diana Griffin Blanche checked her ticket while drinking her morning coffee. I called Melinda, and she called Della, and I guess they went to the store, and then she FaceTime me back, and they were yelling and screaming, and it was amazing. to Mayor Dale Roberts Keats,

it's not just good news for the winners, but for the region at large. In other communities down the road, we call it, down towards Labrador. That's where the bigger businesses are. They're going to benefit big time from this, and we're hoping that our community will benefit from this as well.

None of the winners have extravagant spending plans. Most, like Mott O'Brien Griffin, say renovations and buying a new vehicle are at the top of the list. Well, I'm going to put my sunroof, sunroom on. Go to get care of the bugs, and I taught my buying a little machine from our daughter to drive me around in. Brianne Foucette, CBC News, St. Balls River. And that is your world this hour.

For CBC News, I'm Dave Seglins.