The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/14 at 06:00 EST

Episode Date: November 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/14 at 06:00 EST

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especially in Montreal, Vancouver, and Toronto. Due to construction, population growth, and lack of capacity, data shows congestion in those cities is up to 5% worse now compared to 2019. It's inevitable. It has to come. Civil engineer Bahre 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. In January, congestion pricing was set up in New York City. That's why drivers have suddenly become supporters of congestion pricing. Jano Lieber runs the program and says on average, traffic is moving 20 minutes faster.

But in Canada, 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. A call is being made for Ottawa to take action on the soaring cost of baby formula. And there's no doubt it's soaring. Statistics Canada says it's up by 30% over the past two years and 80% since 2017.

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. 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, Subbury, Ontario.

The head of the United Nations Environment Program is calling for a global intervention for what she's calling the world's addiction to fossil fuels. Here's Inga Anderson at the COP 30 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 released this week at COP 30 says while the rate of fossil fuel emissions has backed off in recent years, the world is still on its way to, quote, a catastrophic temperature rise. That's 2.6 degrees above pre-industrial levels. Russia unleashed another major overnight missile and drone attack on Kyiv. Four deaths are being reported with dozens injured across multiple districts. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is reported that as many as 430 drones and 8.000. 18 missiles were used in the overnight attack. He's accusing the Kremlin of calculating such an attack to cause as much harm as possible to civilians. And that is the World This Hour. You can listen to us wherever you get your podcast. The World This Hour is updated every hour seven days a week. And for news anytime, go to our website, cbcnews.ca.

For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings. Thank you.