The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/11 at 02:00 EST

Episode Date: November 11, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/11 at 02:00 EST

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I'm Neil Hurland. The official Chinese state news agency says China is willing to enhance diplomatic and trade ties with Canada. It says Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi had a phone call tonight with Canadian foreign minister Anita Anand. The overture comes after Prime Minister Mark Carney and Chinese President Xi Jinping met last month in South Korea after years of tension between the two countries. Meantime, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is hosting her G7 counterparts in the Niagara region over the next two days. High on the agenda, a peaceful resolution to the Russia-Ukraine war.

But as Rafi Bujiccanian reports, Canada may find it challenging to insert itself into the equation. Look at the damage that Russia-Ukraine has done to us as a country. U.S. President Donald Trump once again saying he would end. and the nearly four-year-old conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Trump's Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, will be part of the G7 Foreign Affairs Minister's meeting in Niagara on the lake on Tuesday and Wednesday, where discussing a peaceful resolution to the war is on the agenda. Dane Rowland says that could be a challenge. The Canadian position and the European position has been pretty clear all along.

Rollins teaches international affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa. They're there to try to support Ukraine as much as they can. And they are in favor of an arrangement that Ukraine approves. Whereas the U.S., he says, has been more fickle. Sometimes they seem to favor Russia. Sometimes they seem to be more sympathetic to Ukraine. Other items on the agenda over the next two days, maritime in Arctic security, as well as the tenuous ceasefire in Gaza.

Rafi Wichikan, Yon, TBC News, Arwa. Tuesday is Remembrance Day. And for some high school students in Nova Scotia, remembrance isn't just a lesson, it's personal. They live in a small military community outside Halifax, and they found a powerful way to honor the soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice. Selina Alders reports. 3,806 poppy petals form the Canadian flag. On each pedal is the name of a Nova Scotian soldier who died serving in the Second World War.

But for the students at Island View High School in the Eastern Passage who worked on the art project, the meaning behind it hits, close to home. The students gathered for a Remembrance Day ceremony and to display the poppies. Many of them come from military families, their school just minutes away from 12-wing Shearwater, one of Canada's oldest air bases. Student Elizabeth Brown says writing out each soldier's name by hand made her appreciate their sacrifice even more. They sacrificed their lives. They left their families for us. In the small military community, this school Project was a lesson in history, but also a symbol of gratitude crafted by Canada's next generation. Selina Alders, CBC News, Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia.

CBC Radio will broadcast special coverage Tuesday of the Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa. Join Matt Galloway from The Current and Marcia Young from World Report. It all starts at 10.55 a.m. in most of the country, 1155 Atlantic and 1225 in Newfoundland. on CBC Radio 1 and the CBC Listen app. A Canadian writer took home the most prestigious book prize in the UK tonight. The winner of the 2025 Booker Prize is Flesh. Montreal-born David Soloy is being honoured for his novel Flesh, which explores themes of masculinity and tells the story of a working-class Hungarian man

whose life unravels in London. This wasn't necessarily a very easy book to write. I started on it just after abandoning another novel. So there was a very great sense of pressure, as you might imagine, to make this book good, because I think while it might be okay to abandon one novel, to abandon two, would be quite difficult for me to deal with psychologically. The last Canadian to win the Booker Prize was Margaret Atwood in 2019. And that is your world this hour.

For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland. Thank you.