The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/24 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/24 at 16:00 EDT

Did you know that it was once illegal to shop on Sundays? That's true for when I was born. I remember this, and I'm not that old. I'm not, okay? Leave me alone. Anyway, I'm Phelan Johnson, and I host See You in Court, a new podcast about the cases that changed Canada and the ordinary people who drove that change. From the drugstore owner who defied the Lord's Day, to the migma man who defended his treaty right to fish, to the gay teacher who got fired and fought back. Find and follow, see you in court, wherever you get your. your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Kate McGilfrey.

Canada's population growth is slowing, and new data shows cuts to immigration are the main driver. Nicholas Sagan reports. Keeping Canada populated, keeping the economic and tax base healthy, is a challenge. Toronto immigration lawyer, Andreas Pellner, says an aging population, decreasing birth rate and cuts to immigration are impacting Canada's population growth. This is apparent in new stats can numbers, which show this year the country experienced its second lowest population growth rate

in a second quarter since 1946. The report says this can be linked to cuts to non-permanent residents, following Ottawa's announcement late last year to reduce temporary residents to 5% of the population by 2026. Pelliner says stresses on housing, health care, and infrastructure prompted the policy change. These reductions in immigration levels are a rebalancing act. Statscan says from last October to this June,

there was a net loss of more than 120,000 non-permanent residents. Nicholas Sagan, CBC News, Halifax. The RCMP has charged the Royal Bank of Canada employee after he allegedly accessed Prime Minister Mark Carney's banking records. They say Ibrahim El-Hakim worked at an Ottawa branch and did this as part of a criminal plot. It involved creating fake bank profiles and obtaining lines of credit for others,

all in exchange for cash. El Hakeem was arrested in July. Police say neither Carney's private information nor the country's national security have been put at risk. The Supreme Court of Canada has granted a temporary stay to the destruction of about 400 ostriches on a BC farm.

The order comes days after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency moved in on the farm with a police escort, to make preparations for the coal. The CBC's Caroline Bargut is at the ostrich farm and has this report. Dozens of people gathered at universal ostrich farms in Edgewood in southeast BC praying for a miracle. Minutes later, their prayers were answered.

The Supreme Court of Canada halted in order to execute some 400 ostriches until the court decides if it will hear the case. In December, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency ordered a herd to be destroyed as part of its stamping out policy after 69 ostriches died from avian flu last year. The farm has been fighting the call order since then.

Katie Pasitney and her family raised the ostriches and have been fighting to save their lives. There's Q-tip, there's Frank, there's Lulu, there's Barney, there's Lorraine, there's Erica, there's Sergeant Bilko. They all have names, and they are part of our family. We are not for food consumption. The CFIA has until next Friday to file a response. It's not yet clear if the Supreme Court will hear.

hear the case. Caroline Bargut. CBC News, Edgewood, B.C. The FBI says a deadly shooting outside of an immigration enforcement facility in Dallas, Texas, is being investigated as a targeted attack. At least two people are dead. One other is injured. Officials say the suspected shooter died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Joe Rothrock is the special agent in charge of the Dallas field office. Early evidence that we've seen from rounds that were found near the suspected shooter contain messages that are anti-ice in nature. Rothrock says no ICE agents were actually injured. In recent months, there have been a string of attacks on ice facilities across the U.S.

Local officials are denouncing what they call the demonizing of immigration enforcement officials. And for this first time in nearly six decades, a Syrian head of state is at the UN General Assembly. Speaking through a translator, President Ahmed al-Shara called for an end to all sanctions on his country. We call now for the complete lifting of sanctions so that they no longer shackled the Syrian people. The last time Syria was represented at the UN was in 1967, just before the 50-year rule of the Assad family dynasty began. U.S. President Donald Trump lifted some of the U.S. sanctions on Syria in May, but the rest will need a congressional vote to be permanently removed. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey. Thank you.