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

Episode Date: November 9, 2025

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

This ascent isn't for everyone. You need grit to climb this high this often. You've got to be an underdog that always over-delivers. You've got to be 6,500 hospital staff, 1,000 doctors, all doing so much with so little. You've got to be Scarborough. Defined by our uphill battle and always striving towards new heights. And you can help us keep climbing.

Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. borough.ca. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Mike Miles. It was a day to honor the military contributions of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. Saturday was Indigenous Veterans Day. Their history of service includes every major conflict and in times of peace, from before Canada was even a country, up to now. Michelle Song reports. We want to honor them and give them something and let them know we appreciate them.

of veterans, active service members, and their families gathered in front of Toronto's City Hall. They lined up each with a handful of tobacco to throw into a sacred fire to honor soldiers who died in battle. Thousands of First Nations, Métis and Inuit men and women served in the military from the war of 1812 to the two World Wars and in Afghanistan. This is his country, our country to begin with. Grandmother Liz's father volunteered to serve. in the Korean War at just 17 years old, all in hopes to escape the Nova Scotia residential school he attended. So he found it safer to fight in the Korean War than to go to school where they dealt with horrific conditions in the school. Even though her father fought for Canada, she says

when he returned, he continued to face discrimination. Michelle Song, CBC News, Toronto. Edmonton Police Constable Renzo Geronimo is facing criminal charges, including sexual assault, forcible confinement and breach of trust. A police watchdog agency investigated after a woman reported that in 2023, the officer followed her home after an interaction and she felt she had no choice but to let him in. The woman's lawyer, James Rayworth, says it's a relief for his client to finally see something done, but it took too long. Two years of wondering whether people are going to believe her, two years of wondering

whether or not she's going to see this officer again. two years of just not knowing and dealing with this. Unresolved has been a tremendous burden for her. She suffered significant psychological harm because of it. The complainant has since filed a lawsuit against the officer. The allegations in her statement of claim have not been proven in court. Geronimo's first court appearance in the criminal case is scheduled for December 10th. Ontario is proposing to weaken its climate laws, getting rid of targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and removing the requirement the province have a climate plan. Lorenda Redicoop has more.

The proposal to scrap part of a climate law comes in one sentence at the end of the fall economic statement. It's a law the Doug Ford government added in 2018. Keith Brooks is with the group Environmental Defense. They're just officially letting everyone know. They do not care about climate change. It's completely irresponsible. Finance Minister Peter Bethlehem fally.

We are not relenting in our path to. reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We're going to focus on outcomes and not targets. But last month, the Auditor General found the government had moved farther away from meeting its targets. Plus, the province is facing a legal battle. Seven young people argue it's obligated to fight climate change. The Court of Appeal ruled against the government

with the case back in court next month. The government wouldn't comment on that since the legal case continues. Lorenda Redicob, CBC News, Toronto. So Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe will be sticking around. He received more than 80% in a leadership vote at the Saskatchewan Party's convention. Last year, Moe's government won a fifth straight majority. The list of recalls on pistachio products keeps growing as the investigation into a salmonella outbreak continues.

Across Canada, more than 110 people have gotten sick so far. April Hexamer is the director at the Public Health Agency of Canada. She says this recall is a complex one. of the outbreak has a long shelf life or it has a complex distribution system or that the source of the outbreak can be used as an ingredient or has been used as an ingredient in products that people have been exposed to. And in this case, this outbreak investigation has all of those factors. For now, Hexamer recommends making sure any pistachios or pistachio products you use are not on the recall list. Common sense advice. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC

News. I'm Mike Miles.