The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/13 at 19:00 EST

Episode Date: November 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/13 at 19:00 EST

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I'm Kate McGilfrey. Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled the second list of nation-building infrastructure projects that his government is submitting for fast-tracked approval. Carney says the projects will help make Canada an energy superpower. Rafi Bucci Canyon has more. There are strategies that will make our country more independent. Prime Minister Mark Carney on the latest batch of projects, He's referred to the major project's office, the federal body that's in charge of checking whether they can move forward into implementation.

There are seven in total, including the Sisson Mine Project in New Brunswick and the Slism's LQified Natural Gas Project in British Columbia. LNG is an essential fuel for the energy transition. Still not on the list, an oil pipeline for Alberta, something that province has been requesting for years. Carney says it's a work in progress. Those discussions are going well. The government says the projects sent to the office since September would be worth $116 billion to the Canadian economy if they receive final approval.

Rafi Bucanion, CBC News, Ottawa. Canada's spy agency says espionage teams from China and Russia are targeting Canada's Arctic. Dan Rogers is director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. He says both governments and the press, private sector in the region are bewitched. Non-Arctic states, including the People's Republic of China, seek to gain a strategic and economic foothold in the region.

Russia, an Arctic state with a significant military presence in the region, remains unpredictable and aggressive. CESIS is responding by communicating with indigenous Arctic and northern partners across Canada about what it's seeing. A new U.S. study suggests that ultra-processed food is tied to an increased risk of early-onset colorectal cancer. I mean shelf, stable, and preserved goods like mass-produced bread, breakfast cereals, and instant soups. Nearly 30,000 women participated in this study.

It found those who ate the most ultra-processed foods had a higher risk of developing a polyp linked to colorectal cancer. Scientists say the findings link food to rising rates of cancer in young adults in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. The Quebec government is trying to diffuse tensions with the province's doctors. It's offering them concessions in order to open. up talks on Bill 2, a controversial new law that links pay with performance targets. Alison Northcott has the latest. We heard a lot that was bothering them.

Quebec's health minister Christian Dubet says the government has heard doctors' concerns about a new law that changes the way they're paid. Dubet says the government is extending an olive branch, committing not to apply one controversial part of the law involving surveillance measures to monitor doctors' attendance and services. It just shows that we are listening. to what the doctors are saying, and we put that as a proof that say, please come back on the table. But Dr. Michael Kalin, who runs a family medicine clinic in Montreal, says the minister should

scrap the law altogether. If not, he says clinics like his could close. What he fails to recognize is that he's already passed the law. So what are we negotiating? We want to sit down with him, but he needs to remove the law. The Federation of Medical Specialists of Quebec also says the law must be suspended before they'll resume talks. Allison Northcott, CBC News, Montreal. And the BBC is apologizing to U.S. President Donald Trump. His lawyers demanded an apology and financial compensation for an edit of Trump's speech made on January 6th, 2021, just before the attack on the Capitol building. The broadcaster has agreed to never air the offending

episode of the Panorama program again, but it rejected the demand for compensation, saying there's no basis for a defamation claim. To senior BBC staff also resigned earlier this week. That is your world this hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts. We update every hour, seven days a week. Or for the latest headlines, just go to our website, cbcnews.a. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilvery. Thank you.