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

Episode Date: November 11, 2025

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

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. Efforts to reopen the U.S. government have cleared another hurdle. Tonight, the U.S. Senate gave its final approval to fund the U.S. government with a bill that would end the longest shutdown in American history. But as Katie Nicholson reports, it still has to make its way through the U.S. House of Representatives. On this vote, the eyes are 60, the nays are 40. The bill as amended is passed. A deal to reopen the federal government one step closer to reality.

As a handful of breakaway Democrats and one independent supported Senate Republicans to pass the deal, they brokered Sunday night. The compromise bill funds the government through January 30th and ensures the food assistance program nearly 40 million Americans depend on is also funded for the next year. The deal angered Democrats who had been holding out for weeks to push Republicans to extend affordable Care Act tax credits that are set to expire and could leave millions without health care coverage.

The bill now moves to the House. Speaker Mike Johnson told members to return to D.C. for a Wednesday vote. It really was a shutdown about nothing. If it passes, furloughed workers will return to the office and federal employees will start to get paid again. Katie Nicholson, CBC News, Washington. U.S. President Donald Trump has granted a pardon to Rudy Giuliani. Trump's former personal lawyer is among several people accused of plotting to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential vote.

Another is former Trump chief of staff, Mark Meadows. Trump's move is largely symbolic. Presidential pardons only apply to federal crimes in the U.S. And all of the recipients were only charged by state-level prosecutors. Prime Minister Mark Carney says new infrastructure projects, will mean big business for Canadian workers. Carney spoke Monday in Fredericton. Last week's federal budget promised $70 billion in funding for infrastructure.

And Carney says as much as possible of that money will go to Canadian suppliers. And in those cases, when domestic suppliers aren't available, purchasers, purchases will be required to include Canadian content or to be sourced from trusted partners. And those cases will be the exception. not the norm. Carney says ministerial approval will be required for buying outside of Canada. He says for businesses to be considered Canadian, they'll need a presence in this country, and they'll also need to have Canadian supply chains.

The Pan American Health Organization has stripped Canada of its measles-free designation. The country has surpassed a full year of community transmission that started in New Brunswick. Jennifer Yunn reports. For about 30 years, Kansas, Canada has been able to stop measles from running rampant in our communities. In the past year, the defenses have been breached, thousands of cases across the country. That's why Canada is losing its official measles elimination status. This bruises our reputation.

Measles is burning through under-vaccinated pockets of the country. Infectious diseases specialist, Dr. Isaac Boghosh says there's a myriad of reasons why, like mistrust in the vaccine and disinformation online. And this is a sign that Canada needs to double down on efforts to reduce barriers to vaccination and get accurate information out about vaccines to the public. It's a giant wake-up call that we have gaps in our public health infrastructure and that we need to fill those gaps and we need to do so urgently. Canada will have to submit a corrective plan to the Pan-American Health Organization

on how it aims to regain its measles elimination status. Jennifer Yun, CBC News, Toronto. Canadian-born writer David Soloy won the Booker Prize tonight, the 51-year-old is this year's recipient of the prestigious literary award for his novel Flesh. Soloy was born in Montreal but grew up in Lebanon and Britain. I think fiction can take risks. I think it's one of the things that it can do. It can take aesthetic risks, formal risks, perhaps even moral risks.

The last Canadian to win the Booker Prize was Margaret Atwood back in 2019. And that is your world this hour. Neil Hurland.