Your World Tonight - Canada Investment Summit, Trump dismisses concerns over AI, Boxer George Chuvalo dead at 89, and more

Episode Date: September 13, 2026

Prime Minister Carney is welcoming hundreds of investors Toronto - as the federal government's first ever Canada Investment Summit gets underway. As the trade war with the U.S. carries on, the goal of the two-day event is to attract trillions of dollars of new investment money into this country over the next five years.Also: Several notable Artificial Intelligence tech leaders are sounding the alarm - calling for a slow down of the industry and the need for guardrails. It comes after a whistleblower who resigned from AI company Anthropic cautioned the technology could wipe out humanity within the next decade. But U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders in Washington are downplaying the risks - and that can make it more difficult to get those guardrails in place.And: Canadian boxing legend George Chuvalo has died at the age of 89. Chuvalo had two epic bouts with Muhammad Ali - who called him "the toughest man I ever fought". You'll hear more on his acomplishments both in and out of the ring.Plus: The impact of 9/11 on Muslim Canadians, Kidnapping crisis in Nigeria, Walking tours for green infrastructure, and more. 

With the help of Google AI, Access Now is mapping Canada's accessible places, empowering the disabled community to explore with confidence. Innovation is Canada's story. Let's tell it together. Find out more at g.co slash Canadian Innovation. This is a CBC podcast. We have what the world wants. We're an energy superpower and we're putting that into place. Prime Minister Mark Carney makes his business pitch,

holding an investment summit in the midst of the U.S. trade war in the hopes of attracting a trillion dollars to Canada. This is Your World Tonight. I'm Stephanie Skandaris. Also on the program, some of the biggest leaders of AI say it's time to pump the brakes on development with a striking new warning that it could take over the internet in less than a year. The U.S. president is downplaying the claims. Plus, George was the guy that, you know, he was tough, he'd be there, he came to fight, and that's what he epitomized in the sport. He was the Canadian heavyweight who took on the giants of boxing and was never knocked down. George Chavallo has died.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is welcoming hundreds of investors in Toronto, pitching Canada as a reliable investment opportunity that can thrive outside the shadow of the United States. Tonight's Investment Summit showcases more than 160 domestic projects in a bid to unlock a trillion dollars in international capital. As David Thurton reports, the event comes as the trade war with the U.S. shows no signs of resolving anytime soon. Canada is about so much more than being next to the United States. That's part of Prime Minister Mark Carney's business pitch

as he launches an investment summit in downtown Toronto. The two-day event is aimed at money managers from around the world who oversee trillions of dollars in assets. We have what the world wants. We're an energy superpower and we're putting that into place. We have one of the largest resources, undeveloped resources of critical metals and minerals. We have the most educated, most educated population in the world. Head of the gathering, auto-release and investment perspectives to attendees.

In it, more than 160 projects featuring opportunities in LNG, pipelines, renewable energy, mining, and metals. Some of the prices projects include the Port-A Churchill expansion, Nova Scotia's Wind West Offshore Project. Many of the projects, though, are not shovel-ready, and looming over the event is Canada's relationship with the U.S., creating both an uncertainty for investors and at the same time an urgency to attract them, according to industry minister Melanie Jolie. We need to build our economy even stronger,

diminishing our reliance on the U.S. Last year, foreign direct investment in Canada topped nearly $100 billion. Ottawa's goal, unlock one trillion dollars over the next five years. Carney, a former central banker with stints in high finances, leveraging his corporate connections.

Jamie Gillies is a political scientist at St. Thomas University. It remains to be seen whether he can get that upwards of a trillion dollars, but I think it's getting the kind of right people, the big money behind the scenes in Canada

here for this to talk about these larger projects is at least a good start. The summit's critics call the event a haven for the wealthy to buy up and profit from Canadian assets. Former politician and diplomat Frank McKenna, now the chair of Canadian investment firm Brookfield, disagrees. The whole idea behind the summit, by the way, is to create growth, to create jobs, to create wealth, to create taxes, to pay for services for people all across the country. The summit is about bringing the world to Canada, but the Prime Minister continues to bring

Canada to the world. After the event, Kearney heads overseas. to address the European Parliament. David Thurton, CBC News, Ottawa. Leaders of several prominent artificial intelligence companies are sounding the alarm, calling for a slowdown of AI development and the need for guardrails. This comes after a stark warning from a whistleblower this past week who cautioned the technology could wipe out humanity within the next decade.

But is Washington listening to growing calls for regulation? Katie Nicholson has that. story. I won't lie to you. There are real dangers. The CEO of AI company Anthropic with an interview sending ripples of alarm across the industry. And I think for too long, the industry lied to people about the fact that this technology had risk. Dario Amade's comments coming after he penned an essay warning misaligned AI technology could take over the internet in six to 12 months and proposed third-party evaluation of the technology, a slowdown of development, and working with governments to create a regulatory framework, something other tech titans like Elon Musk signaled they supported.

Well, I say this, look, we're leading China and AI. We're the most sophisticated country in the world. And frankly, I want to keep it that way, because whoever wins, AI wins. U.S. President Donald Trump, however, less than enthusiastic. We can put guardrails. We can do this and that. But I think you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn't be bringing it up, and they're bringing up things that won't happen. House Speaker Mike Johnson also unwilling to slow down, citing concerns about potentially seating ground to China.

But Johnson agreed it is urgent lawmakers meet with AI leaders to ensure the technology is safe. I'd do it tomorrow. We've got to summon everybody together. I've talked to the president about this as well. They probably should be summoned together at the White House. And I think we need to go in a big room, close the door, and sort this out. week, a whistleblower who resigned from anthropic warned AI might wipe out humanity. Well, this summer, a swarm of AI agents from another company, OpenAI, went rogue and hacked into Hugging Face, an open source AI hub.

They are freaked out. I mean, ever since the Hugging Face hacking incident a couple months ago, when I talked to people who work at these companies, it's sort of like they've seen a ghost or something. David Kruger is an AI safety researcher at the University of Montreal. He's in favor of a pause on AI development. until the technology can be better controlled, both in the U.S. and China. People think about this as a race between U.S. and China, but I think the real race is between the people building this dangerous technology that's putting a salt at risk and the people racing to stop them. If U.S. lawmakers do meet with AI CEOs to discuss safety and guardrails... We don't need to panic about extinction,

but we do need to take some steps around this particular technology that has a flaw. AI skeptic and entrepreneur Gary Marcus warns, It has to involve more than senators and CEOs. We need some scientists who don't have skin in the game to be in the room too, to say, you know, this part is BS and this part is not, and this is what we really need to do. Or else it winds up being regulatory capture. It's not certain congressional leaders will take up AI guardrails

when they're briefly back in session this week, but China and the U.S. are expected to address AI safety this month. Katie Nicholson, CBC. News, Washington. Still ahead, 25 years after the trauma of the September 11th attacks, Muslim Canadians reflect on how it changed their lives and the racism and surveillance they experienced here. That's coming up on your world tonight. In Montreal, it has been 20 years since the tragic mass shooting at Dawson College.

The attack killed one student, injured 19 others, and left an entire city broken. It prompted calls for gun control, calls that continue to reverberate. Alexander Silberman reports. In the Peace Garden at Montreal's Dawson College, a somber ceremony, marking two decades since a shooting that forever changed the lives of students, staff, and families. Jean Charray was Quebec's premier at the time. To say that today's ceremony, 20 years later, is a moment of hope, And it should be a moment of inspiration.

On September 13th, 2006, a gunman entered the school grounds and began shooting in the cafeteria, murdering one student and injuring 19 others. The sudden rampage, bringing widespread panic and chaos to downtown Montreal, triggering a mass emergency response. The gunman took his own life after being shot by police. 18-year-old student Anastasia DeSuzza was killed. It was hard to believe that she was gone. Anastasia's mother, Louise D'Souza, says the tragic day was a daze.

In each anniversary, she marks continues to be heavy. D'Souza has become a relentless advocate for restrictions on firearms, turning her grief into action. I'm not going to give up in this fight. I am a coalition for gun control, and I'm going to keep fighting with them. Hater Katham was also in the cafeteria at the time. and survived after being shot in the head, neck and leg. Still living a normal life, I think it's our way of winning over, you know, someone who tried to change our life negatively.

Kadam also became involved in advocacy for gun control on his path to recovery. He started a non-profit and began speaking at schools to raise awareness about violence and bullying. If we could just care a little bit more, I think that can make the biggest difference of everything, whether it's reducing bullying or isolated individuals that commit these type of crazy tragedies. In wake of the tragedy, the Quebec government banned guns from public places and created a provincial firearm registry. Survivors, including Megan Hennigan, who was shot twice, are now calling on the federal government to complete a ban on assault-style weapons.

They sent a letter to the Prime Minister last week, asking for action. This fight has been going on and while some gains have been made in other places, like we've suffered serious losses. They've made promises, they've broken promises, we want them to keep them. At the end of the ceremony, survivors and families took a moment to plant seeds in the school's Garden of Peace, marking a day of unthinkable violence with an act of remembrance and hope. Alexander Silberman, CBC News, Montreal. Residents of the industrial city of Ruinno Randa in western Quebec are marking its centennial while grappling with a toxic legacy.

It's home to a copper smelter owned by Glencore Canada that's intertwined with its history and continues to transform it to this day. Julia Page explains. We were one, two, three, fourth house. Linda Marion grew up just a few steps from the horn, mine, and smelter where her father worked. The family home was built on the same land where gold prospectors settled in log cabins in the 1920s. A century later, the neighborhood of old Niranda is being demolished. I'm sad to see it gold be. I'm not only that house, but the neighborhood.

200 households are being relocated. In 2023, the province ordered Glencore Canada to create a buffer zone. That directive stems from concern among citizens following public health reports of over-exposure to arsenic and lead. in the city, particularly in Old Noranda. Given the choice, Glenn Furlong says many of his neighbors would have stayed put. Some people accepted it. Some people didn't. There's people been living in their house all their lives. They don't want to move.

But local author and history buff, Jean-Lu-David, says the protests that led to the buffer zone are part of Roy Noranda's social fabric. There's a lot of battles that were fought by the citizen here. I think it sticks in. we're mined that we're not the first to ask for these rights. It's very like a kind of toxic relation when you are in couple and you love someone, but you know that's going to destroy you. Rosalie Chartier-Lacombe's grandfather worked at the horn mine, which closed in 1976.

Her son is now also a minor in the region. The local art and theater company she runs often explores the push and pull many residents' between the city's industrial past and its future. The heart can say things that politicians cannot say, that the industry cannot say. Glenn Corps' environmental manager, Marie-Elys Vigé says the company will meet a provincial deadline to reduce arsenic emissions by 2029. So we are working on big technology to capture all the gas, filter it.

Rosalie Chartier-Lacombe says she understands the demand for the technology. She herself relied. on daily, including for the theatre's latest project, Montvue d'Ancentin, which is asking residents of old Noranda to outline what they want for the neighbourhood. To make them imagine what will be in 100 years. Julia Page, CBC News, Roi Noranda, Quebec. A Vancouver PhD student is working on an active way to engage people in climate discussions. As part of her research, she's leading walking tours, guiding people through downtown

Vancouver talking about hidden, green infrastructure. Bridget Stringer Holden reports. Hi, everyone. Welcome to Urban Future Walks. Yon Faye Lee does walking tours of Vancouver as part of her PhD research at the University of British Columbia. The goal, to talk about climate change in a more engaging, positive way. During the two-hour walk, she points out various green buildings and spaces, from climate-adapted architecture to transit systems.

A lot of them said that, oh, I walk on the street every day, basically, or every week. but I've never noticed, you know, this is so cool. The tour starts at Robson Square, one of the most widely used public spaces in the city. It was turned into a pedestrian-only plaza for the 2010 Winter Olympics, a temporary change that was made permanent. Lee explains this is part of a shift away from car-dominated urban design, towards sustainable communities where people can move freely.

Change is possible and it's already underway, and there's real reason to stay hopeful. Along Richard Street, Lee points out what looks like bricks in the pavement. The permeable blocks allow rainwater to drain into an underground trench system. The system diverts 11 million liters of rainwater each year. Lee explains the system is specifically engineered to be functional as well as pleasing to the eye. We're tackling those system level change because everyone's behavior is actually shaped by how the system is designed. Hallie Phoenix organized a tour with her colleagues from the Vancouver Airport Authority.

She says it was an eye-opening experience for her team. It kind of shifts you from being a bit afraid of climate change, but more. excited because it's cool to see the different ways the city comes together to make us head towards a sustainable future. This is Lee's goal to shift from climate anxiety into something more hopeful and productive. Some people feel very perilous because they don't know what we could do or they don't see any change, you know, that is happening. That's why we think that the solution part is actually missing and we're highlighting solutions in our tours. Lee's research includes these in-person walks, but also guided video sessions.

She plans to compare the results to see how effective, interactive, place-based sessions are. Bridget Stringer Holden, CBC News, Vancouver. In Indonesia, emergency crews rushed to pull people out of life rafts in the Java Sea, where a ferry overturned early Sunday morning. Six people have been found dead,

and around 130 passengers and crew are still unaccounted for. The vessel was carrying more. than 240 people traveling between the islands of Java and Borneo. Local authorities say the captain reported three-meter waves before sending a distress call. More than 100 people have been brought to safety so far. This past week was 25 years since the September 11th attacks. Muslim Canadians are reflecting on a generation defined by the shadow of 9-11. Some say they experienced racism, hate, and surveillance.

because the hijackers happened to share their faith. And as they told Lindsay Duncombe, a sudden wave of global suspicion forced them to fight for their identity. Without September 11th, my life would have been totally different. Kizur Daya hands out ice cream at the Halal Food Festival in Suri, B.C. He's volunteering at a tent for the Muslim Food Bank. Dala says what happened on September 11, 2001, changed him.

That really painted a target on my back. When the attacks happened, Daya was in grade four, the only Muslim kid in his school. I remember, like, the harsh things that they would say, like, oh, bin Laden's your uncle and, like, you know, you... Like, I lost my friends that day. He got into so many fights. His family eventually moved and he switched schools. Jasmine Zine has heard many stories like that. She's a professor of sociology, religion, and culture at Wilfred Laurier University and wrote a book about Islamophobia, experienced by young Muslim Canadians after 9-11.

There's been a collective burden of guilt and punishment that has been laid on to Muslim communities globally, right? Two billion people around the world for the actions of 19 hijackers 25 years ago. And what I found is that the youth that I studied was that they felt a responsibility to correct that image. That's true for Hassan Alam. He was 18 in 2001. For me, in that moment, there was a feeling of... I need to really stand up for my community in this moment because things are going to get really bad. He ended up joining his Muslim Student Association. The treatment of Muslim Canadians, such as Mahar Arar,

who was detained by U.S. authorities and tortured in Syria, inspired him to go to law school. And at the time there wasn't many lawyers who looked like me, who had the same name as me, doing the sort of work that needed to be done. How does pistachio almonds song? Kieserdaya helps his community too. Volunteering at the Halal Food Fest is part of that. It took years for him to become less defensive.

Stop getting in fights. Now he's an accountant with three little girls. September 11th is just part of who he is. I can't look back and be like, oh, I wish this and that because it's pointless. But I think it definitely had to give me thicker skin because I had to deal with a lot of hate. 25 years later, the scar. cars from 9-11 are still there. Lindsay Dancom, CBC News, Surrey, British Columbia.

Nigeria is facing a growing kidnapping crisis. A recent report found nearly 8,000 people were abducted from July 2025 to this past June, with more than $8 million paid in ransom. Freelance reporter Kunibabs looks deeper at those payments from Abuja. At about 5 p.m., where we're driving towards... Kugui State. We were hurt. They were sporadly gunshot, targeted towards our car. Johnson Sunday was traveling on the boss returning to his home in Nigeria's central Kugui State in 2003. He was returning from writing his accounting exams. Suddenly, the boss came

under attack. He and 17 other passengers were kidnapped. We were taken to the bush, stripped of all our homes and we were beating for those four days, four nights. working all through the days, no food, no water. Sunday says his captors later used one of the phones to contact his family and demand a ransom. They initially demanded about $63,000 Canadian dollars for his release. After negotiations, his family paid a little more than $6,000 and it was released. You have to go around through Elta Skeeter, beating down, beating it down, begging, pleading, borrowing from everywhere to raise the money.

JOTS's experience reflects a much larger national A report by Nigerian Security and Intelligence Consultancy, SBM Intelligence, estimated as 7,825 people were kidnapped across Nigeria between July 2025 and June, 2006. The kidnapping by terrorists and bandits is done because most of their sources of incomes have been, you know, blocked by the security agencies and the government. Sani Dantata is an Abuja-based security analyst who has struck the kidnapping economy for over five years. He says ransom payments have become an important source of funding for some harm groups. The only ways they now get their sources to buy arms, to feed, buy motorcycles

and whatever is through kidnapping. And when these ransoms are paid, it is from there they fund themselves. SBM estimates that at least $8 million Canadian dollars was paid in ransom over the 12-month period. Dan Tata says tackling the financial incentives alone will not be enough. governments also take measures to make sure that security apparatus is established in areas, surveillance is enhanced, and certain intelligence gallery is also enhanced. Outside that, they will continue to do it because this remains their only source. But with nearly 8,000 people kidnapped in the year to June, the latest figures suggest that the security operations have yet to break the cycle.

Kunibabs for CBC News, Abuja, Nigeria. The boxing world and Canadians all over the country are paying tribute to George Chavalo. The Canadian heavyweight champ won 73 of 93 fights over his two-decade long career. Most notably, he battled Muhammad Ali for the title at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens in 1966. But as Philip Lee-Shanak reports, those who knew him also remember his battles outside the ring. He's a great example of... what it means to be a boxer. Tommy Glanzi's a coach at Sully's boxing gym in Toronto.

He remembers when he was just a kid, the Canadian heavyweight champ George Chivalo visited the gym where he used to train. This was one of the hardest training sessions of my childhood that day. We were trying to prove to him, show him that we're all good boxers. Coach Rico Mancini says Chivalo was known as a tough guy, winning most of his 73 victories by knockout.

But in person, he was much different. I grew up knowing this big, friendly man, very caring, very generous with his time, very affectionate. Mitch Chivalo says his dad took after his mother in many ways. She's a large, bone, strong Croatian woman. George got a lot of his physicality from her. He was also very much like his mother in that he was emotional and soft and caring and loving. The world heavyweight champion, Muhammad Ali, defends his title. against George Chavallo of Toronto.

Mitch Chivalrovalho remembers being there at Maple Leaf Gardens. He was six years old. His dad would lose by unanimous decision, but Ali would describe him as the toughest fighter he'd ever faced. That fight used to irritate my father a lot because people would only, oh, he went 15 rounds with Muhammad Ali. And George would always respond. No, he went 15 rounds with me.

But Chavallo himself recalled that Ali ended up in hospital and said that that fight made him a half. household name. I lost the fight, but, you know, it was a tough fight. It didn't do me any harm. In fact, it enhanced my reputation. Chivala would go on to win 73 of 93 fights over his two-decade long career, 64 of them by knockout. Boxing analyst Russ Amber says Chivalo popularized the sport in Canada and was known internationally. He became kind of the brand of what Canadian boxing is, that you knew if you were fighting a Canadian, you know, he was tough, he'd be there, he came to fight. But Amber says it was his anti-drug message that should also be remembered. Chivalo lost three

sons to addiction. His first wife, Lynn, took her own life. Nobody has able to give a stronger lesson on the dangers of drug use and why it should be treated very, very seriously than George Chavallo. Chivalro was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, the World Boxing Hall of Fame, and was named to the Order of Canada in 1998. He died on Saturday. Saturday, his 89th birthday. Philip Lishanak, CBC News, Toronto. There wasn't a teddy bear being honored this weekend in Vancouver, but there was a beloved grizzly.

Grindr, the bear, 25-year resident of Grouse Mountain, named after its famous hike, died earlier this summer. He was found as an orphaned cub, stumbling, dehydrated, along a logging road. He might have been killed. But veterinarian Ken McQuiston stepped in, suggesting a refuge be made. He tells CBC News Grindr taught him a lot about grizzlies. The thing most people learn is they're so much like us. They're thinking, they're feeling, they've got sense of humor. Not to mention a sense of playful adventure, remembered in the stories told it Saturday's memorial. McQuiston recalls Grindr, discovering the joys of winter sports in the hills of his habitat.

at. Grindr dug up an old cafeteria tray, and it had snowed about a foot, and he took that tray up to the top of the hill inside his enclosure. And I was there watching, and he got on it, whether he meant to or not, he slid all the way down to the bottom. And then he picked it up in his mouth, and he ran up to the top, and he thought it was so much fun, he did it again, and went all the way down to the bottom.

So I knew it wasn't by accident this time. His snowboarding was cut short when his buddy Koolew. Kula got a little jealous and smashed his tray. Kula and Grindr shared the habitat both found around the same time. Grizzlies are usually pretty solitary, but these two were close, and they were together in Grindr's final moments. He was very iconic. You couldn't meet too many people in the lower mainland area that didn't know who Grindr and Kula were.

Until there's a song made about Grindr, here's one about another bear. This is Gus, the polar bear from Central. Park by The Tragically Hip on Your World Tonight. I'm Stephanie Skandaris. Thank you for listening. For more CBC podcasts, go to cbc.ca.ca.com.