The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/15 at 05:00 EST

Episode Date: November 15, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/15 at 05:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. borough.ca. From CBC News, The World This Hour, I'm Mike Miles. On Monday, the government is scheduled to hold a vote on Mark Kearney's first budget. It's a confidence motion, so it could spark an election. And right now, the government says it doesn't necessarily have the votes to pass. Host of CBC Radio's The House, Catherine Cullen, has more. The Conservatives don't support the budget.

The Black Quebecois doesn't support the budget. And the NDP doesn't support the budget. budget. Liberal House leader Stephen McKinnon has been saying for weeks that other parties are not prepared to line up with his party's budget. Even with a recent floor crossing from the conservatives, the liberals are two votes shy of getting their budget passed. Elizabeth May is the only Green Party MP to win the last election. She had initially suggested she wouldn't vote for the budget, but now says she's negotiating with the liberals. Even if May was on side, the liberals would still need one more vote. So, does May believe?

leave we could be headed towards the government falling and the possibility of an election. Well, I think it's very clear that the mood of the country is please no. But elections have happened in the past by accident. McKinnon says he expects opposition MPs will have to spend the weekend doing some soul-searching. Catherine Cullen, CBC News, Ottawa. Lots more analysis of what could happen Monday, including the full interview with Elizabeth May on the House. That's after the 9 o'clock news, 9.30 in Newfoundland, or wherever you get your podcasts. The smoke is cleared following the destruction of a busy seafood processing plant in Newfoundland in Labrador.

But questions remain about what the future holds for this important business and a string of coastal communities in St. Mary's Bay. Terry Roberts reports. A fierce windstorm, rattled homes, toppled trees, and pounded Newfoundland's coastline with gigantic waves on November. Fourth. At the height of what forecasters were calling a weather bomb, fire erupted at the seafood processing plant in St. Mary's, a small community on the southern Avalon Peninsula. Within hours, the economic heart of a region that had been on the upswing was buried under steaming rubble. Patricia Gibbons worked at the plant and had a front row seat to the inferno. Well, you could hear the crackling of the fire and probably one of the propane tanks just

exploding and it was terrifying. Days later, the winds have subsists. and investigators are still probing the fire. So what's next for the plant? The owners are not saying whether they'll rebuild. So hundreds of workers are in limbo. And what appeared to be a bright future for so many is now filled with uncertainty and worry. Terry Roberts, CBC News, St. Mary's. An explosion in a police station in Indian-administered Kashmir has killed at least nine people. The blast of a cache of confiscated explosives causing extensive damage. The local director general of police insists it was unintentional. The handling was being done with extreme caution, with utmost caution by the FSL team.

However, unfortunately, during this course, an accidental explosion has taken place. It came days after a car bombing in New Delhi, Killed eight people. Investigators calling that explosion a terror attack. As to the Saskatchewan Rough Riders and Montreal Alouettes warm up for this weekend's Great Cup in Winnipeg, CFL Commissioner Stuart Johnson is looking to the future, saying he'd love to see the league explained to 10 teams. Johnson is in Winnipeg for the Great Cup festivities and is asked about seeing another city with a franchise. Halifax has been lobbying for one for decades, but Johnson says there are discussions with a number of places including in Atlantic Canada and Quebec City.

We want that interested group that's going to have the financial wherewithal, the political connections, and the infrastructure plan to pull us into a community because they've done the work. And we give them a lot of background in order to do so. So those conversations are happening across the country. I'm looking forward to seeing where they go. However, Johnson's not saying where those talks are at. That is The World This Hour.

For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles. Thank you.