The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/14 at 04:00 EST

Episode Date: November 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/14 at 04:00 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 mike miles the rising price of baby formula in canada is driving parents and caregivers online to ask strangers for help this as statistics canada's numbers show the average price for baby formula has climbed nearly 84% since 2017 and about 30% just in the last two years jessica pope reports Six-month-old Charlotte is still exclusively formula-fed. Her mother, Cassandra Shedden, in Thunder Bay in northwestern Ontario, says it costs up to $120 a week to keep her bottle full.

And formula prices are straining her already razor-thin budget. Sometimes you're trying to choose between bells and feeding your kids. Leslie Frank has been tracking the issue nationally for nearly two decades. She is the Canada Research Chair in Food, Health and Social Justice at Acadia University in Nova Scotia. Frank says her national research paints a dire picture. The infant formula is now locked up because it's one of the most stolen food products in Canada.

Most of Canada's baby formula comes from a largely consolidated U.S. market. She says increasing the Canada child benefit amount would help struggling families or even nationalizing baby formula production. Jessica Pope, CBC News, Sudbury, Ontario. A hydroelectric power project in Nunavut's capital city is on Prime Minister Mark Carney's latest list of major projects aimed at eliminating the dependence on millions of leaders of fossil fuels

for the cityly growing city. Juanita Taylor has more. This is a breakthrough for Arctic sovereignty and sustainability. That's Prime Minister Mark Carney, describing a new way of generating energy in Aqaluit. Exciting news for Harry Flaherty that the Iqalwit Nukik Saoit made the list of projects streamlined for fast. track approvals.

Federal government is listening to us. Flaherty is with Nunavut-Nukik-Souti Corporation. The group is working to get the territory's largest city off its reliance on diesel power. Power plant uses about 17 million liters of fuel and 65,000 tons of carbon is put out. To achieve this, a dam would be built 60 kilometers northeast of Vigaluit along the Kugulik River. 15 to 30 megawatts of generated power would travel through an 85,000,000. kilometer transmission line, supplying Iqaluit's 9,000 residents and potentially more like future mines. The project will cost about $500 million and has yet to get regulatory approval.

Juanita Taylor CBC News, Yellowknife. The head of the United Nations Environment Program wants to stage an intervention over what she calls the world's addiction to fossil fuels. Inger Anderson spoke on the sidelines of the COP 30 climate summit in Brazil. It's because of our emissions. So a conversation around emissions is what we need to do, and it is urgent. Having it on this formal agenda or in another way, it is critical that we do not lose sight of the fact that the whole story has to end with a reduction and a phase-out transitioning away from fossil fuels. A report this week by Climate Action Tracker says while the rate of fossil fuel emissions has been backing off, the world is on its way to what it calls a catastrophic temperature. rise of 2.6 degrees above pre-industrial levels. The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote next week on a motion to release the Jeffrey Epstein files. Thousands of documents in the convicted sex offenders case were made public earlier this week, while President Donald Trump has

consistently tried to prevent their release. Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell said if this were a trial, it might look suspicious to a jury. When a witness or a subject to an investigation seeks to hide evidence or bury evidence or destroy evidence, you can imply what they call a consciousness of guilt, meaning that an individual would only do that to mask their own responsibility and guilt. Swalwell had served as a prosecutor during Trump's second impeachment trial following the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. Swalwell confirmed Thursday that the U.S. Justice Department is now investigating him for suspected mortgage fraud. This is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles.