The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/06 at 17:00 EST

Episode Date: November 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/06 at 17:00 EST

Hey, I'm Sarah Marshall, and there's one story from the past that I've been circling around for years now. This eight-part series traces the hidden history of the satanic panic in North America. We'll connect the dots from Victoria, BC, to the backroads of Kentucky. Satan was having a moment, the sensationalist heartthrob of our time. The Devil You Know, available now wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Kate McGilfrey. Emotions ran high at a British Columbia ostrich farm today

after Canadian Food Inspection Agency employees descended on the birds. Earlier, the Supreme Court decided it would not hear an appeal by the farm's owners. They were fighting a cull order against their flock brought on by an avian flu outbreak. Yasmin Hania has the latest. Walk away, because your maker is one. You're watching you right now. Farm supporter Jim Kerr yells through a microphone standing on the side of a highway overlooking the ostrich pens. Cruise in hazmat suits could be seen trying to round up the birds as many tearful

supporters look on. Since the Supreme Court decided not to hear the farm's case, there is now no legal impediment to the CFIA killing roughly 300 ostriches. The agency ordered the cull in December after an avian flu outbreak. Virologist Angela Rasmussen says she believes the Supreme Court made the right decision from a scientific perspective. She says even though it's been months since the outbreak, the birds could still be infectious and that testing them is difficult. Ostriches are seven to nine feet tall, extremely strong, and they can actually disembowel a person. The CFIA says it has followed all court decisions until this point and expects the farm owners to do the same. Yesem Ganea, CBC News, Edgewood, BC. At the same time, the Supreme Court has announced

it will hear an appeals case in a challenge to Saskatchewan's school pronoun law. The law prevents children under 16 from changing their names or pronouns at school without parental consent. The Saskatchewan government invoked the Charter's notwithstanding clause to pass that legislation. The High Court has been asked to expedite that case to be heard alongside the challenge to the Quebec secularism law. It prevents public sector workers from wearing religious symbols on the job. Quebec also used the not-withstander. clause to pass that law. And in Alberta, teachers will take the provincial government to court for using the not-withstanding

clause to order them back to work. The fight for justice continues. Today, the Alberta Teachers Association has taken the first legal step to challenge this abuse of power. That's Jason Schilling, president of the Alberta Teachers Association. He says the union will ask for an injunction preventing the enforcement of the law until the courts have ruled on its constitutionality. Schilling says getting an injunction would put the union back in a strike position,

but he wouldn't say if members would return to the picket line. The man who pleaded guilty to killing six people in a mass stabbing in Ottawa last year has been sentenced to life in prison. Fabrio de Zoiza pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree murder, two counts of second-degree murder, and one charge of attempted murder. Four of his victims were children. The international student from Sri Lanka lived with a family of Sri Lanka newcomers at the time of the murders.

And Canadians traveling to the United States could be in for some major travel headaches starting this weekend. The number of flights at major U.S. airports is expected to be cut as a result of the ongoing U.S. government shutdown. Willie Lowry reports. Air travel in the U.S. is about to get a lot more complicated.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says the reduction in flights is about safety. I anticipate there will be additional disruptions. There will be frustration. We are working with the airlines. They're going to work with passengers. But in the end, our sole role is to make sure that we keep this airspace as safe as possible. The Federal Aviation Administration will reduce flights by 4% on Friday

and ramp up to a 10% reduction by next week. Travelers are already worried. As a traveler, it's very inconvenient for me. But if you're not paying people right, I completely understand. And if I'm not getting paid right for my services, I wouldn't work either. So I feel like it's a double-edged sword at that point. The FAA will target the country's 40 busiest airports. Millions of travelers could be affected as the government shutdown drags on.

Willie Lowry, CBC News, Washington. And that is your world this hour. For news any time, you can always visit our website, cbcnews.a. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey. Thank you.