The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/14 at 10:00 EST

Episode Date: November 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/14 at 10:00 EST

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Join us. Because kids these days, we need you more than ever. Donate at GeoFoundation.com. from cbc news it's the world this hour i'm joe cummings on your daily commute today consider that for many canadians the drive now to and from work has never been longer but there is at least a partial solution to the country's highway congestion problem however most provinces refuse to consider it with cbc's Marketplace. Here's Chris Glover. 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, data shows congestion in those cities is up to 5% worse now compared to 2019. It's inevitable. It has to come. Civil engineer Behehr Abdulhai says adding a fee to key routes would reduce demand during peak hours. Congestion pricing is not a matter of in January, congestion pricing was set up in New York City. That's why drivers have suddenly become supporters of congestion pricing. Jan O'Leber 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. Meanwhile, Ontario's ban on municipal speed cameras goes into effect today. Premier Doug Ford calls them a cash grab, claiming they do nothing to slow speeding drivers. However, dozens of municipalities across the province disagree, and they've asked the province not to scrap the program. The Ford government says instead it'll be spending $200 million on alternative traffic calming measures like speed bumps and raised crosswalks. With seven more major projects added this week to the Kearney

government's major projects office, the Prime Minister is insisting his revamping of the Canadian economy is well underway. But it's not clear at this point if that's truly the case. Janice McGregor explains. Leaps were being made yesterday. I saw an environmental group put out a press release, for example, incorrectly stating that the Silism's proposal had been designated as a project of interest. Premier Susan Holt was also talking about the tungsten mine in New Brunswick being of national interest. But in fact, the Prime Minister's office confirmed that none of the referrals to the major projects office so far amount to an official declaration that would trigger the stronger, some would say more draconian powers, to push through a project that the

Kearney government passed into law last June. The CEO of Northern Ontario's Crawford-Nickel project said just getting this referral could help attract international investors. But conservative leader Pierre Palliev was pointing out that these referrals haven't actually sped anything up yet. They've just added another step to the process with the Prime Minister shown up to take credit for things that were going to happen anyway. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. The body of another hostage has been released by Hamas and formally identified by Israeli authorities,

which means as of today the remains of three hostages are still in Gaza. Tom Perry has more. In a statement last night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed his country's efforts to bring the hostages home would not cease until the last body was returned. The return of the hostages was a key element in the U.S. brokered ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, but an end to the violence in Gaza is just phase one. The U.S. is urging the United Nations to back President Donald Trump's wider 20-point peace plan. It requires Hamas to disarm an international stabilization force to provide security in Gaza

and the formation of a so-called Board of Peace chaired by Trump to oversee a transitional government for the territory. That plan is reportedly facing pushback at the UN from China, Russia, and some Arab countries. Tom Perry, CBC News, Jerusalem. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings. Thank you.