The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/12 at 02:00 EST

Episode Date: November 12, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/12 at 02:00 EST

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and a digital business library full of on-demand resources. Benefit together with Chambers Plan. Learn more at hellochambers.ca. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Neil Hurland. G7 foreign ministers are meeting in southern Ontario, and Canadians will be watching Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anon's meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Right now, there are no meaningful trade talks between the two countries.

As Rafi Bujican reports, the two diplomats will likely sidesteped the economic war and instead focus their attention on geopolitical conflict. Hi, everybody. At the so-called family photo for the G7 Foreign Affairs Ministers, Anita Anand stands shoulder to shoulder with their American counterpart Marco Rubio. It's wonderful to see you all here. But there is much where their two countries don't see eye-to-eye. Talks to end the months-long trade war halted since October,

following the White House's anger over an Ontario TV ad that featured part of a speech by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan criticizing tariffs. Yes, the trade talks are going to permeate the entire bilateral relationship, but it's very important to compartmentalize. Kerry Buck says Anand and Rubio are likely to just avoid tariff talk. The former Canadian ambassador to NATO now teaches international affairs at the University of Ottawa. There's a lot of work to be done. They'll be discussing the geopolitical issues of the day, Gaza, Russia, invasion of Ukraine.

On the Middle East, Anand says, Canada's priority is to see aid continue to flow. Rafi Bucca and on CBC News, Niagara, the Lake. We're following a developing story in Montreal tonight. The union representing transit maintenance workers says it's suspending its month-long strike, starting at 6 a.m. Wednesday morning. The announcement comes just hours before Quebec's Labor Minister was set to table a bill that would give the provincial government

the power to end the strike. Montreal's incoming mayor will be sworn in Thursday. And in a statement tonight, Soraya Martinez-Ferrada said, I am pleased the SDM maintenance workers have accepted my request for a truce in their strike action. The union says it now hopes to reach a negotiated agreement. On Wednesday, the Ontario Court of Appeal will be giving a legal opinion on whether the Criminal Code allows online gamblers to play with people outside Canada. Industry insiders say this would inflate the pool of money in games raising the stakes for gambling.

But some lottery and gaming agencies in other provinces are concerned this could lead to more illegal gambling. Michelle Song has more. Liquidity is an important part of the gambling business. Don Bourgeois is a lawyer focused on the gaming sector. He says if Ontario's Court of Appeal determines that Ontarians could play against international gamblers, that would inflate the liquidity or the pool of money for games like poker. That would increase the entertainment value, the prizes. Gaming Ontario is the agency that licenses private companies to operate online gambling sites.

And the province takes 20% of their revenue. But in other jurisdictions, only provincial lottery agencies run these schemes. And they're worried Ontario's proposal could lead to more illegal gambling. As they say, some Ontario regulated sites are already luring players from their provinces. Industry insiders hope the increased liquidity could bring players who sought out higher stakes in the black market back to the regulated sites. Michelle Song, CBC News, Toronto. A Turkish military cargo plane has crashed in Georgia. All 20 people on board are dead.

The C-130 plane had taken off from Azerbaijan and was on its way back to Turkey. The cause of the crash is under investigation. The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote Wednesday on a funding bill that could end the longest U.S. government shutdown in history. The U.S. Senate has already approved it. Felicia Thompson is a public servant with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. We don't like being pawns. We don't like be called the swamp or to be used in anyone's political games, no matter what side you're on.

The shutdown has been going 41 days. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland. Thank you.