The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/07 at 01:00 EST

Episode Date: November 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/07 at 01:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. from cbc news the world this hour i'm mike miles a second conservative MP is leaving the party matt jenneroo from edmonton is resigning for family reasons and over political disappointments earlier this week chris d'anttramont of nova scotia defecting to the governing liberals government with mark garrison weighed in on the timing i think there's no way that this is just a coincidence it was literally a day after another colleague did it. This, again, comes back to the fact that the Conservative Party of Canada no longer has room for progressive views. And that's why you're seeing progressive members of Parliament,

who are conservatives, systematically one by one, resigned from the party. And I, quite frankly, wouldn't be surprised if you see more of that. General's announcement came just before the first confidence vote on the budget. It was on a conservative sub-abendent urging rejection of the liberal spending plan. Instead, the Liberals, NBP, and Block Quebecois rejected the amendment. The vote on the budget itself is expected later this month. Gunshots have been heard at the B.C. ostrich farm inspectors are carrying out a coal of hundreds of birds. The farm's owners lost an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada to overturn a CFAA order to destroy those birds following an outbreak of avian flu. Tanya Fletcher has more.

tears and anger at the universal ostrich farm. It's where two birds tested positive for avian flu last December. Now, under the watchful eye of RCMP officers, health officials in hazmat suits move in. Early this morning, less than an hour after the country's highest court decided not to hear the case, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency put out a statement confirming it will proceed with the call. Katie Pisidney speaks for the farm. daughter of one of the owners.

There's no respect here for an agency that's gone rogue and has gross amounts of freedom. Canada had to proceed this way. Jean-Pier-Veyancourt, is a professor at the University of Montreal's veterinary school. He says Canada has signed a treaty with the World Organization for Animal Health, meaning it's agreed on specific measures like calls when it comes to controlling avian flu. Tanya Fletcher, CBC News, Vancouver. A teacher at an Ontario public school has pleaded guilty to a a series of sex crimes involving students.

Kellyanne Jennings was the victim's grade eight teacher. Prosecutors are now asking for her to be sent to prison. Thomas Dagler reports. The court in Peterborough, Ontario, heard Kelly Ann Jennings had been drinking when she began sending increasingly explicit pictures and videos to former students on Snapchat. She would then ask the teenage boys to send nude images of themselves, which they did.

The 41-year-old teacher pleaded guilty to six counts, including luring and making child pornography. A dozen other charges, including sexual assault, were stayed at the request of the Crown. Jennings was suspended from her teaching job in Port Hope last year when the allegations first surfaced. The mother of one of the victims described Jennings' actions as predatory, manipulative, and deeply harmful. Crown prosecutors are asking for a four-year prison sentence, while the defense insists Jennings should instead be given a conditional sentence with no jail time. The judge is expected to hand down a sentence later this month.

Thomas Dagglet, CBC News, Peterborough, Ontario. Alberta teachers are taking the provincial government to court for now using the notwithstanding 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. Jason Schilling there, president of the Alberta Teachers Association, he says the union will ask for an injunction preventing enforcement,

enforcement of the law until the courts have ruled on its constitutionality. 51,000 teachers were on strike for three weeks until a bill forced them back into classrooms. Schelling says getting an injunction would put the union back in a strike position. Former Prince Andrew is being asked to sit down for an interview with U.S. Democrats regarding Jeffrey Epstein's sex ring. Andrew was tied to Epstein by one of his former employees, Virginia Jewfrey, but the former prince has maintained his innocence. That is The World This Hour.

For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles.