The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/15 at 04:00 EST

Episode Date: November 15, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/15 at 04:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. borough.ca. From CBC News, The Worldless Hour, I'm Mike Miles. U.S. President Donald Trump says he's made up his mind on what to do about Venezuela. We'll see what happens. I mean, I can't tell you what it is, but we've made a lot of progress with Venezuela in terms of stopping drugs from pouring in. Within hours of speaking those words on Air Force One, the Pentagon released video of its 20th and latest ship attack. That happened Monday in the Caribbean. Four people on board

alleged to be drug traffickers were killed, part of a mission now known as Operation Southern Spear aimed at so-called narco-terrorists. A U.S. aircraft carrier is expected in the Caribbean in the coming days. Critics, not to mention Venezuela's government, are concerned Trump is plotting a war or even regime change. Venezuelan President Nicola Maduro is trying to appeal to Americans. Peace. Peace. Peace is the order. The ordain is the pits. War? No. War no.

Dit, no. Peets and lies and low. Trump is arguing the buildup as part of U.S. military action against drug cartels. Meantime, Trump's backtracking on some food tariffs, signing an executive order to get rid of reciprocal levies on certain imports, including beef, coffee, in tropical fruit. It's a response to pressure from U.S. consumers who complain prices are too high. Voters cited economic concerns as their top issue in off-year elections earlier this month, which resulted in big wins for Democrats in races in Virginia and New Jersey.

Montreal is headed off a potential transit strike this weekend. The city's transit agency reached a tentative agreement with its driver's union. Details won't be known until the deal's ratified. A separate dispute continues, however, involving administrative and technical staff, they still plan a two-day strike next week. The Art Gallery of Ontario received a donation of more than 450 works by more than 200 artists, including major names like Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns. It's one of the largest donations the gallery has received in decades. The CBC's Michelle's song tells us more about those pieces and what they mean to Canada's largest collection of art.

This incredible donation of more than 450 print drawings and photographs is transformational. Alexa Greist is a curator with the AGO, which carries the largest collection of art in Canada. She says this gift of world-renowned modern and contemporary art elevates the gallery. To be given this depth and breadth of incredibly high-quality work, it is not something that I could go after. My colleagues that I could go after and build a collection like that. Late Toronto art patrons, Carol and Morton Rapp, left a plan to donate the pieces with big names like Jasper Johns, one of the most influential American painters from the 20th century, American painter and graphic artist Robert Rochenberg, and Andy Warhol, a leading figure in the pop art movement, with some of his most iconic pieces at the forefront of the collection,

including four portraits of Marilyn Monroe. The collection will be shown in two years. Michelle Song, CBC News, Toronto. It's a fairy tale wedding that went off without a hitch, but not the kind of ferry you might be thinking of. Jordan and Leslie Fox both work on the northern expedition. The BC ferry's vessel travels between Prince Rupert and Port Hardy. They met on the ship two years ago and fell in love.

This week, they got married on board the vessel while it was docked. The couple says it was supposed to be a small ceremony, but as it turned out, It was all our family, our Ferry family. Yeah, our B.C. Ferry's family. We had almost 70 crew on board, and almost all 70 people that we work with were there. It was pretty overwhelming with a lot of joy because I wasn't expecting not many people to be there. The couple's B.C. Ferry's family will soon be growing. They're expecting their first child in May.

Talk about a love boat. That is the world this hour for CBC News. I'm Mike Miles.