The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/12 at 18:00 EST

Episode Date: November 12, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/12 at 18:00 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 McGilvery. 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. US House lawmakers are returning to Washington this evening. They're set to vote to end the longest

federal government shutdown in history. Most Democrats are expecting. to vote against a bill to reopen because it doesn't extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, but just enough are expected to vote in favor to help the bill pass. Also in Washington, U.S. Democrats have released emails suggesting President Donald Trump knew more about Jeffrey Epstein's crimes than he has previously claimed. The private correspondence was published today by the House Oversight Committee. In one email, the convicted sex offenders says the president spent significant time with one of Epstein's alleged victims. Another email suggests 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 today accused 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. The new sanctions target Russia's energy sector and individuals involved with its drone program. And for the first time, Canada's 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 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 grey zone

because it is not controlled by the Awe side or the Russian side. Another military officer told CBC News that Ukraine's infantry is outnumbered. Pachrotsk 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, 1,000 civilians still remain. Breyer-Stewart, CBC News, London.

And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey. Thank you.