The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/06 at 09:00 EST

Episode Date: November 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/06 at 09:00 EST

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In its legal filing, Quebec's Federation of Medical Specialists says the province's new law is draconian and a flagrant violation of several charter rights. It's asking the court to suspend parts of the law. It changes the way doctors are compensated, tying part of their pay to performance targets. And if they use concerted actions or pressure tactics to protest the law, they could be fined. I submitted my resignation. Dr. Trevor Hennessey has been speaking out about a lack of resources in the Utaway region for years. and says the new law has further eroded his trust in the government. The failings of the government are trying to be passed on to the shoulders of the physicians.

Earlier this week, the Quebec government said it would suspend two elements of the law for now, affecting how specialists and family medicine clinics are compensated. We're doing that for the Quebecers and also for the doctors. Quebec's Treasury Board President, France-Elene Durant-So, said the goal was to calm the waters and bring the doctors' federations back to the table. But so far, that hasn't happened. Alison Northcott, CBC News, Montreal. The Supreme Court of Canada announces today whether it will hear a case involving a BC farm ordered to cull hundreds of ostriches.

The birds are among a flock that contracted avian flu last year, which triggered the call order from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. The farm in the BC Interior has already lost a number of legal challenges, and the fate of its remaining 300 birds now hinges on today's court decision. After tabling his budget this week, finance minister Francois Philippe Champagne is now touring the country, promoting the benefits of his fiscal plan. But there are critics in corporate Canada that say the budget isn't as revolutionary as the government is claiming. Janice McGregor explains. It's not that groups like the Business Council of Canada don't want these kinds of moves, but they were hoping for even more, pointing out that there's still, from the corporate perspective, way too much regulation, questioning whether the scale, of the tax write-offs here and all the infrastructure building is really going to match the depth of the crisis that they perceive.

The government's trying to fix two problems at once here, an emerging crisis that's been driven by American tariff policy, but also the long-standing sluggishness in Canada's economy, which has struggled for decades to produce as efficiently as other jurisdictions. At his announcement yesterday, Prime Minister Mark Carney reminded reporters that after this budget passes, Canada's tax rate on investments is going to be the lowest in the G7. That's a better deal.

He said that even the Trump administration is offering. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. A manhunt is underway in England after two convicts were mistakenly released from prison this week. One prisoner has turned himself in, but the other, a registered sex offender, is still on the run. Anna Cunningham reports.

This latest manhunt is an embarrassment for the British government, just a week after an Ethiopian. asylum seeker who was jailed for sexual assault was mistakenly released early. He was on the run for two days before being re-arrested. There are reportedly dozens released in error from prisons in England and Wales every year. Robert Jenrick was Justice Secretary when the Conservatives held power. I think it's a disgrace. It's a total dereliction of duty.

But the current Labour government argues the prison system is archaic. The prison where the latest releases happened, Wandsworth in South London. London is a Victorian-era facility built in 1851. Reports say it's overcrowded with high levels of violence and a shortage of staff. There are even suggestions that on any one day, staff are unable to confirm where all their prisons are. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.

Thank you.