The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/11 at 13:00 EST

Episode Date: November 11, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/11 at 13:00 EST

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From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Stephanie Skanderas. We begin in Ottawa. A piper plays Flowers of the Forest, also known as the Lament at the National War Memorial. The song marked the end of the two minutes of silence for the National Remembrance Day ceremony. Thousands came out in below freezing conditions to mark the day. This year is 107 years since the end of the First World War.

This year's Silver Cross mother is Nancy Payne. Her son, Corporal Randy Payne, was killed in Afghanistan in 2006. Ceremonies for Canadian soldiers have also been held in the UK. More than 2,500 of them are buried at Brookwood. Military Cemetery. Anna Cunningham reports. Surrounded by tall pine and fir trees in this corner of the UK's largest Commonwealth Graves Cemetery are some 2,700 Canadians. The ceremony in this quiet corner, a time to reflect on those who died in the First and Second

World Wars and more recent conflicts. Ralph Goodell is high. Commissioner to the UK. We live today in a very dangerous world and the lessons of those previous wars need to be remembered now in order to avoid ultimately repeating all of that again. Reeds laid at the foot of the Canadian Memorial as the wind blows through the thousands of headstones, each marking a Canadian who gave the ultimate sacrifice. Anna Cunningham, CBC News at Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey, England. An early blast of winter weather has led to major power outages across Quebec. As of the latest update, more than 325,000 clients are without electricity.

The power utility says because some tree branches had not yet lost their leaves, the extra snow accumulation led to broken branches falling on power lines. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario says it's now receiving a surrogation, urgent applications from Quebec doctors. Many are considering leaving the province after a controversial bill was passed last month. Michelle Song has more. This is just the final nail for so many people. Dr. Trevor Hennessy is one of a slew of doctors resigning in Quebec.

Two weeks ago, the province passed the controversial bill too, which links doctors pay to performance targets. Dr. Hennessy says the bill doesn't address the existing lack of resources within the health care system. How can we meet those operating room targets? When we have nine out of 12 rooms closed from lack of nurses, but the law says it's our fault. More than 260 Quebec doctors have since applied to work in Ontario, according to the regulatory college for doctors in the province. But the president of the Ontario Medical Association, Zainam Abduraman, says Ontario shouldn't benefit from another province's loss.

Our goal is for each province to feel all the physicians there to feel that they can be part of the process to make the health care system better. Quebec's Bill 2 is set to take effect in the new year. Michelle Song, CBC News, Toronto. A Chinese woman who conned investors out of billions of dollars has been sentenced to 11 years in jail in the UK. Cheyenne Jamin ran a Ponzi scheme in China and stole funds from thousands of Chinese pensioners.

UK prosecutors say she used the money to buy Bitcoin and fled to London in 2017 using a fake passport. An investigation led to the largest, cryptocurrency seizure in UK history. Will Lynn is with the UK National Crime Agency. These funds originated from a large-scale fraud that targeted and harmed more than 128,000 victims in China from 2014 to 2017. Many people lost their life savings and the emotional and financial impact on them was devastating. More than 80 people involved in orchestrating the scheme have also been convicted in China. And that's the world this hour.

For CBC News, I'm Stephanie Scandaris.