The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/25 at 03:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 25, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/25 at 03:00 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. Prime Minister Mark Carney is leaving the country for another international trip. He'll spend the next two days in London, meeting with world leaders at the Global Progress Action Summit. His goal is to open new markets for Canada. Roland Paris is director of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. The summits are actually really important and a really efficient way for the Prime Minister to meet many of his international counterparts at the same place at the same time.

Over the last week, Carney has been to Mexico, City, and New York. The Conservatives are criticizing the Prime Minister for coming home empty-handed while a trade war continues with the U.S. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on his way to New York to speak at the United Nations Friday. Netanyahu says he will condemn world leaders who want to recognize a Palestinian state instead of denouncing the murderers, rapists, and child burners who attacked Israel. Canada, Britain, and France are among the countries that recognize a Palestinian state this week. Netanyahu will also meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington during his visit. Trump has a new proposal to end the war in Gaza, which he presented to Arab states at the U.N.

A B.C. University, rocked by a student's fatal overdose on campus in 2023, committed to changes proposed by an independent review. But as Emily Fagan reports, most of the changes had not yet been implemented when students returned to campus earlier this month. We know the difference are being made. University of Victoria, Student Society Director Griffin Foster, says there's more he wants to see in response to a 2023 tragedy. 18-year-old Sydney McIntyre Stargo, a first-year-student, fatal student, overdosed inside a dorm. It has been a real awakening for the university. Graduate student leader Kyla Turner says she's seen changes on campus since an independent report released this spring showed errors in UVX response, which said it took nine minutes for campus security

to administer naloxone, too late to save her life. UVX president at the time committed to implementing all 18 recommendations most before this fall. Progress has been made, according to the school's special advisor, Jennifer White, but just three were fully implemented by September. Even though the language might not be exactly precise, the spirit of those recommendations are what's guiding us. Looking forward, there's more students hope to see, including on-campus drug testing and reduced stigma about substance use. Emily Fagan, CBC News, Victoria. In Churchill, Manitoba, hope and worry lives side by side, as residents watch national discussions about the expansion of their nearly 100-year-old port. People say they'd love to see more jobs, but there's concern that Churchill Plus proposed.

proposal will jeopardize their successful tourism industry. Karen Pauls has more. There's two right there. Erin Green stands on the beach and points at beluga whales in the Churchill River. She owns Sup North, a paddleboard tour company. It's an incredibly special place for them. Climate change means new shipping lanes to Europe and beyond are emerging in the Arctic. It's why the port of Churchill, Canada's only deepwater Arctic port connected by railway, is being considered as one of the Prime Minister's nation-building projects. Green understands but worries the sound from construction and more commercial shipping will harm the whales.

Chris Avery heads the Arctic Gateway Group, a partnership of 29 First Nations and 12 communities in Manitoba and Nunavut, which own the port and the railway. The Port of Churchill has been here for almost 100 years. There was much more volume through the port than there is today, and that co-existed very well with the involvement. environment. A delicate balance between the environment and economic development. Karen Paul's, CBC News, Churchill, Manitoba. Now to Columbia. Family members cheer as 23 miners are rescued.

They were trapped 80 meters underground for more than two days. Vancouver-based Eris mining operates in the area and center rescue team. And that is your world this hour. Thank you.