The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/14 at 05:00 EST

Episode Date: November 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/14 at 05:00 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 it's not your imagination cbc marketplace analysis has found daily rush hour commutes in canada are getting worse at the same time governments across the country are refusing to embrace a controversial solution that experts say can change that marketplace host chris glover takes a closer look while on the hunt for what the data shows is the worst commute in the country

Highway 401 routinely comes to a halt during Michaela Helliwell's two-hour commute. We're stops, all right, so you have a stretch now, hands off the wheel. She and hundreds of others responded to a marketplace call-out, arguing they have Canada's worst commute. Research analyzed by Marketplace shows commutes across the country are getting longer, especially in Montreal, Vancouver, and Toronto, due to construction, population growth, and lack of capacity. It's inevitable. It has to come. Civil engineer Beheir Abdulhai says adding a fee to key routes would reduce demand during peak hours. Congestion pricing is not a matter of if, it's a matter of when.

Provincial governments must approve new highway charges. Ontario's transport minister, Prab meets Arcaria, says no. It's something that we just absolutely fundamentally disagree with. Beyond adding a congestion price, in the past few years, premiers in Ontario, Nova Scotia and British Columbia removed tolls. Chris Glover, CBC News, Toronto. At least four people are dead after a massive barrage of Russian drones and missiles hit Kiev overnight. Air defenses managed to take out some of them. Several apartment buildings were damaged and fires broke out across the Ukrainian capital.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia had launched more than 400 drones and 18 missiles. At least 27 people were injured. Meantime, Russia says it took out or intercepted more than 200 Ukrainian drones. some in a region where officials say an oil depot and port were targeted. As officials and journalists go through the thousands of Epstein emails released this week, some of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's accusers are demanding the full files be made public. One of them, Annie Farmer, says many things considered unlikely in the case have happened. You know, it was very unlikely that we would get the signatures we needed for this discharge petition.

And here we are. We have them. It was very unlikely that Andrew would no longer. be a prince. And that's happened. And I think, you know, for years, people said it was unlikely that anyone would care or know about the crimes of Epstein and his co-conspirators. And people clearly do. The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote next week on a Democratic motion to release the files. Several Republicans are expected to vote in favor, including some considered to be Donald Trump loyalists. Trump's been mentioned 1,500 times in some of the documents released this week, with one Epstein email claiming that Trump

quote, knew about the girls. Manitoba's Premier is asking how releasing a man who was serving time for killing two women is justice. Wab Canoe is reacting to the statutory release of Sean Lamb. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2012 deaths of Lorna Blacksmith and Carolyn Sinclair. Lamb got out Thursday under parole board conditions. Canoeu's whiting to the Prime Minister calling for changes. It is about parole, it is about statutory release, it's about sentencing. more generally, and just ensuring that if somebody takes multiple lives in our society,

that they're going to be held accountable. Canoe questions how releasing someone like Lamb contributes to the community's sense of safety. In downtown Winnipeg, dozens protested the parole board decision. 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 private sector in the real. Asian are being watched. 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. CISIS is responding by communicating with indigenous Arctic and northern partners across Canada about what it's finding. That is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles. Thank you.