The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/25 at 01:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 25, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/25 at 01:00 EDT

Too many students are packed into overcrowded classrooms in Ontario schools, and it's hurting their ability to learn. But instead of helping our kids, the Ford government is playing politics, taking over school boards and silencing local voices. It shouldn't be this way. Tell the Ford government to get serious about tackling overcrowded classrooms because smaller classes would make a big difference for our kids.

Go to Building Better Schools.ca. A message from the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario. from cbc news the world this hour i'm neil hurland a dire warning from the president of ukraine at the united nations general assembly volodymyr zelensky urged global leaders to do more to end russia's war or risk it getting worse margaret evans reports a big week in new york for ukrainian president vladimir zelensky his address to the gathered nations an appeal to save Ukraine, and with it, he said, faith in the international community. Peace depends on all of us.

His address followed some unexpected cheerleading from the U.S. President, Donald Trump, posting on social media, that Ukraine could be in a position to regain all its territory from Russia, with European help. Reporters asked Zelensky about it afterwards. Big shift. Disposed of Trump. Zelensky said changes in warfare, including drones and the development of artificial intelligence, risked unleashing a new arms race. Only Russia deserves to be blamed for this. A position he will be hoping Donald Trump is indeed coming around to and that he will stick with it.

Margaret Evans, CBC News, London. Police in Dallas say a deadly shooting at an immigration and customs enforcement facility was a targeted attack. A sniper opened fire killing one detainee and injuring two more, sparking more fears about politically motivated violence. Katie Simpson reports. Authorities say a sniper had positioned himself on a nearby roof and started firing indiscriminately at the building, hitting a secluded entrance area where ice agents loaded passengers in and out of vans. The FBI is investigating this incident as an act of targeted violence. Joe Rothrock, the FBI special agent in charge, says the suspect was found dead of his self-inflicted gunshot wound.

No ICE agents were hurt in the attack, but authorities believed they were at the target. Early evidence that we've seen from rounds that were found near the suspected shooter contain messages that are anti-ice in nature. The work done by ICE agents carrying out the Trump administration's mass deportation agenda is a source of intense division. across the U.S. And the Department of Homeland Security says violent attacks against ice agents are significantly on the rise. Katie Simpson, CBC News, Washington. The Mounties have charged a Royal Bank of Canada employee after he allegedly accessed Prime Minister Mark Carney's banking records. They say Ibrahim al-Hakim worked at an Ottawa branch and allegedly was part of a criminal plot.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is defending his public safety minister against calls from the opposition that he be fired. After he was caught on tape, questioning the government's buyback program for prohibited firearms. Tom Perry reports. Fort Mark Carney, still fairly new to the job of Prime Minister, this was a fresh challenge, standing in the House of Commons fending off calls to fire one of his ministers. Will the Prime Minister stop the politics, fire the minister, and leave Grandpa Joe's Handy Rifle? Opposition leader Pierre Pauliev, targeting public safety minister, Gary Anandesangery, who in a secretly recorded conversation is heard questioning some

elements of the government's firearms buyback program. What the government is doing with the gun registry is putting in place a much more efficient way for Canadians to voluntarily return prohibited firearms. Carney says he still has confidence in his minister who gets to keep his job, at least for now. Tom Perry, CBC News. Ottawa. We're all here to celebrate today. Cheers at an ostrich farm in BC. The Supreme Court of Canada has granted a stay in the destruction of 400 birds. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency ordered their deaths after avian flu was detected in the flock last December. The owners of universal ostrich farms

have been fighting the order ever since. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland. Thank you.