The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/12 at 16:00 EST

Episode Date: November 12, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/12 at 16:00 EST

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Join us. Because kids these days, we need you more than ever. Donate at GeoFoundation.com. From CBC News, The World This Hour. I'm Kate McGilfrey. Ontario has won its case to expand online gambling within the province and allow players outside of Canada. Gambling agencies in almost all other provinces oppose this move.

Their warning, it could open the door to more illegal online gambling across the country. Michelle Song reports. Liquidity is an important part of the gambling. business because it increases the pot. Don Bourgeois is a lawyer focused on the gaming sector. He says the Ontario Court of Appeals decision to allow international players to gamble with Ontarians will allow for a higher stakes game with more liquidity or money, making games like poker more enticing for players like Drew Gupta.

I think it'll be great for the game and for players because the more players you're playing against, the more you're learning, the better you're getting. But unlike Ontario, which licenses third. party sites for gambling. Other jurisdictions only have provincial lottery agencies running these schemes. And those companies in seven provinces worry this decision from the court could result in more illegal online gambling. They say some Ontario-regulated sites are already luring players from their provinces. Michelle Song, CBC News, Toronto. U.S. Democrats have released emails suggesting President Donald Trump knew more about Jeffrey

Epstein's crimes than he previously claimed. The private correspondence was published today by the House Oversight Committee. In one email, the convicted sex offender says the president spent significant time with one of Epstein's alleged victims. Another email suggests that Trump, quote, knew about the girls. Representative Jasmine Crockett is among the Democrats who released the emails. If you know that you didn't do anything, then why is it that you would be twisting members of your own party's arms, trying to get them not to release it? This would be exonerating. If you know that you are free and clear, then why not say, you know what, release the files.

Trump has long denied all wrongdoing involving Epstein. The White House press secretary accuses Democrats of selectively leaking emails to create a false narrative. Canada is imposing new sanctions on Russia. Those who enable Russia's war will face consequences under Canadian law. Foreign Affairs Minister, Anita Anand made the announcement at a G7. meeting in Niagara on the Lake, Ontario. These new sanctions target Russia's energy sector and individuals behind its drone program. And for the first time, Canada is also sanctioning entities that supply Russia's cyber warfare infrastructure. Meanwhile, the Russian military is

making advances in eastern Ukraine, and it's being helped along by foggy weather. After a year-long fight, Moscow's close to seizing the embattled city of Pukrovsk, Breyer Stewart, has the story. A video on social media shows a small group of Russian troops in Pekrovsk. Some move on motorcycles through dense fog. A Ukrainian drone operator who's CBC News is only identifying by his military call sign, Goose, says several hundred Russians are now inside the city. Much more Russians than it was before. Almost all of the city now is a gray zone because it is not controlled by the army.

side or the Russian side. Another military officer told CBC News that Ukraine's infantry is outnumbered. Pukrovsk used to be a key transportation and railhub. Russia is now trying to encircle it and set up military positions in the city. At one time, it had 60,000 residents. Now Ukraine believes amid the fighting when thousand civilians still remain. Breyer Stewart, CBC News, London. And the U.S. minted its last penny today.

The move's meant to save money because the smallest coin has become largely irrelevant. Treasury officials say the final few pennies will be auctioned off. And although no new pennies will be made, they will remain legal tender. Canada stopped producing pennies in 2012. And that is the world this hour. Get the latest headlines anytime on our website, cbcnews.a. I'm Kate McGilvery. Thank you.