The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/21 at 04:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/21 at 04:00 EDT

Defining your freedom starts by redefining your farms management. The Sense Hub Dairy ecosystem offers a variety of features to empower you with more insights into your operation. It's time to farm with more freedom. Learn how with Sense Hub Dairy. From CBC News, the world is sour. I'm Neil Kumar. A public memorial service will be held south of the border for far-right activist Charlie Kirk on Sunday. Over 100,000 people are expected to attend.

including U.S. President Donald Trump. The memorial is taking place in a suburb of Phoenix, which is home to Kirk's organization, Turning Point USA. Katie Simpson tells us more. Police say it could be upwards of 100,000 people who are in Phoenix for this event. There is obviously a heightened sense of security with the high-level dignitaries that will be at this event,

the president, the vice president, other senior administration officials within the Trump administration. There are road closures, police are visible, and also not visible. U.S. Secret Service said they've made an arrest already. They saw someone looking suspicious near the stadium. When they approached the man, he said he was law enforcement. He said he was armed.

But after an investigation, they determined he wasn't actually law enforcement. So they're still trying to figure out what was going on in that situation. But again, the police presence, the heightened security, federal, state, and local officials all working together ahead of the big event. Katie Simpson, CBC News, Phoenix, Arizona. The federal government has officially launched domestic public consultations on next steps for the Kusma Trade Pact. Canada U.S. Trade Minister, Dominic LeBlanc says Canadian workers are helping navigate the next steps. You'll see over the coming weeks activities and opportunities for Canadians and for those that are affected by the recent turbulence in the trading relationship to offer us views on how we should approach the review conversations.

Leblanc says his priority is addressing sectoral tariffs on the steel, aluminum, automotive, and lumber industries. But he says he's not ruling out a bigger deal with the U.S. if Washington offers a deal that is in Canada's best interest. In Ontario, Martin Stiles would continue to lead the provincial NDP party after receiving 60% of the vote at Saturday's annual leadership convention in Niagara Falls. This comes just one week after Bonnie Cromby stepped down as a leader of the Ontario Liberals. Stahl says she understands the party needs to change if it's going to win the next election. The Japan Air Self-Defense Force deployed fighter jets to Canada for the first time. Their Operation Atlantic Eagles made their first stop over in the country at the five-wing military base in Goose Bay. The jets were there, along with 180 personnel from Japan, five-wing commander, lieutenant Colonel William Brake.

They've provided a lot of support to Canada when we've deployed in the Indo-Pacific region for operations like Opnese. on, operas, and opt-projection, ensuring a free open and inclusive Indo-Pacific. So to support Japan here in Goose Bay is very significant for us and we're very proud to do it. The Japan Air Self-Defense Force says one of the biggest aims of the program is to deepen the mutual understanding between the countries and to promote defense corporation. It's a sign of the change from summer to fall, heading out to pick up a pumpkin ahead of Halloween. But this season, some Canadians should be ready to find a local crop not quite as healthy or as orange As they may expect, Sarah Leavitt has more.

Here is just a really immature pumpkin. At Black Fox Farm and Distillery in Saskatoon, Barb's definition Cote moves vines aside to show her pumpkin crop in the field. The ones that are orange are smaller than normal. The uncooperative weather means the highlight event of the year for the farm is cancelled. It's pumpkin festival. We had a lot of cool, wet, rainy weather, and pumpkins like hot and dry. But for some farmers in other places in Canada, it was actually too hot and too dry.

According to the Canadian drought monitor, around 70% of the country's farmland has been abnormally dry this summer. We're thinking we could be down as much as 40%. Greg McKenzie is the owner of McKenzie Produce in Stratford, Prince Edward Island. Probably 33 years since I've been on this operation, and there's only been one or two years that by record show struggle such as this. Sarah Levitt's CBC News, Montreal. And that is your world this hour. Remember, you can listen to us where we get your podcasts. We update every hour, seven days a week, or for news anytime.

You can visit our website at cbcnews.a. For CBC News, I'm Neil Kumar.