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

Episode Date: November 6, 2025

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

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involving a BC farm ordered to call hundreds of ostriches. The birds are among a flock that contracted avian flu last year triggering the call order. Yasmin Renaya reports. It's totally ridiculous. Universal ostrich farms. co-owner David Balinski says he's devastated and frustrated by the high court's decision. This was the farm's final legal attempt to stop a call of its roughly 300 birds, which the Canadian Food Inspection Agency ordered in December after an avian flu outbreak

and about 70 birds died. The farm in BC's interior had captured national and international attention and support. We have an opportunity to do something helpful for Canada, including from prominent members of the Donald Trump. administration, who had offered to take the birds to the U.S. Supporters could be heard crying after the decision was announced. The farm owners claim the surviving birds have developed antibodies and could be used for research. There is now no legal impediment to the cull of the ostriches. The CFIA says it will be moving forward with the cull but did not provide a specific timeline.

Yasmil Ganea, CBC News, Edgewood, BC. At the same time, the Supreme Court, has announced it will hear an appeals case in the challenge to Saskatchewan's school pronoun law. The law prevents children under 16 from changing their names or pronouns without parental consent. In passing the legislation, the Saskatchewan government evoked the Charter's notwithstanding clause. 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 saying that 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 people. 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, 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 news anytime, go to our website. We're at cBCnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.