The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/14 at 09:00 EST

Episode Date: November 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/14 at 09:00 EST

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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. 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, Subbury, Ontario. Health officials in Edmonton have declared a tuberculosis outbreak. It follows multiple confirmations in the inner city with health officials saying they are the result of local transmission. In total, there have been 12 cases identified this year,

with the patients all having connections to the inner city and homeless communities. Indigenous protesters are, once again, demanding to be heard at the COP 30 climate conference in Brazil. Earlier this week, they squared off with security as they tried to force their way into the talks. And this morning, they blocked the main entrance. Susan Ormiston reports. Hold the line.

Hold the line. A long line of indigenous people blocked the main road to the entrance of COP 30 this morning. A peaceful protest. They stood their ground from 5 a.m. a greater say in the negotiations going on inside. They are worried about future potentials for drilling of oil near the Amazon River, and they want more of their land protected. They were able to secure a meeting with the president of COP 30, who was escorted by the indigenous

people into a more secure area. When we spoke to the president, he said they will make space for greater dialogue with the indigenous people of Brazil. It's something that the Brazilian president promised out of these COP 30 negotiations. Susan Ormiston, CBC News, Belen, Brazil. Meanwhile, 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 Inger Anderson at COP30. 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 the climate summit says while the rate of fossil fuel emissions has been backing off in recent years, the world is still on its way to a quote, catastrophic temperature rise. That's 2.6 degrees above pre-industrial levels. Russia unleashed another overnight missile and drone attack on Kyiv. Four deaths are being reported with dozens injured across multiple districts.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy says more than 400 drones and 18 missiles were used in the assault. And he's accusing the Kremlin of calculating the attack to cause as much harm as possible to civilians. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.