The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/11 at 12:00 EST

Episode Date: November 11, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/11 at 12:00 EST

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From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Pep Philpott. Tens of thousands of people are attending the National Remembrance Day Ceremony in Ottawa. It's one of hundreds of memorials today as Canadians gather in cities and towns across the country, paying tribute to those who fought to defend our freedoms. In Nova Scotia, some high school students have found a powerful way to honor the soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice. Selina Alders has their story.

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. Canadian troops continue to push northward through Italy. But for the students at Islandview Highlands, school in the Eastern Passage who worked on the art project, the meaning behind it hits close to home. My father, who is now a veteran, he served for 25 years. 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 airbases. 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. Canada will open up a new diplomatic office this week in Greenland. The opening of the consulate comes at a time when both allies are eager to deepen ties as relations with the U.S. remain turbulent, and the Godmere has more. This is unprecedented in terms of expanding our Arctic footprint.

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand will arrive in Greenland's capital of Nuke this week to establish a permanent diplomatic presence in the self-ruling Danish territory. Canada joins a small list of countries with consulates there, including Iceland and the U.S., whose president Donald Trump has talked about acquiring the territory. The main message is that we will continue to advance Arctic cooperation in whatever way possible. And that cooperation could focus heavily on defense, according to one expert. It's important that we develop a comprehensive security package with Greenland fully part of that. Alex D.L. is a senior fellow with the McDonald-Liorior Institute.

If you don't have a centralized strategy that looks very, very hard, what advantages Canada has, what we can bring to the table, that requires strategic thinking and strategic leadership. DL says Canada's real challenge now is to not let this opportunity go to waste. Emma Godmere, CBC News, Ottawa. Security officials in Pakistan say at least 12 people have been killed by a car bomb. It happened outside a courthouse in Islamabad. This man saw the explosion. He says it was a big blast and there was fire all over.

The explosion happened at a time when the court is usually crowded with hundreds of people. No group has claimed responsibility. The outgoing head of the BBC is defending the broadcaster's journalists. Tim Davy quit his post over the weekend after a news program misled the public. Panorama spliced together parts of a speech by Donald Trump. It made it appear the U.S. President explicitly encouraged the Capitol Hill riot. Dave admits the BBC made mistakes, but defends the integrity of the corporation. I'm very, very proud of our journalists in this building.

They're doing work. I think it's incredibly important. I want to thank every one of them. They're doing a wonderful job. Trump is threatening a billion-dollar lawsuit, the BBC makes a retraction. The broadcaster says it will respond in due course. And a British court has sentenced a Chinese woman to more than 11 years in prison for money laundering. John Xiemann stole money from tens of thousands of pensioners in China to buy cryptocurrency, which is now worth over $6 billion.

She fled China in 2017 when authorities began to investigate her. She relocated to the UK, but drew the attention of police there when she began to make huge expenditures, including renting a mansion at more than $22,000 a month. That's your world this hour. I'm Pep Philpott.