The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/15 at 20:00 EST

Episode Date: November 16, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/15 at 20:00 EST

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I'm Kate McGilfrey. In Brazil, the UN Climate Conference COP 30 has reached its midpoint. Inside, government officials from around the world are negotiating a new agreement. But as our climate correspondent, Susan Ormiston tells us, it's not clear what a deal could look like. There isn't one big communique expected as in past years. What's called climate finance is a very big issue, especially for smaller countries like the Maldives who are very vulnerable to sea level rise.

Here's Tibia and Ibrahim with the Alliance of Small Island States. That means that we have to redirect funds from our domestic budget, things that could have been spent, money that could have been spent on education, on social services that now have to go to seawalls to freshwater solutions. So this cop is wrangling with that, also with a pledge made two years ago on how to transition away. from oil and gas, but that is a very thorny diplomatic tangle, and it's not clear what, if anything, will be agreed to here. Susan Ormiston, CBC News, Belen, Brazil.

Volunteers in rural Nova Scotia were out today, searching once again for Jack and Lily Sullivan. The two small children disappeared six months ago. An Ontario-based non-profit, please bring me home, led the charge on today's search in Picto County, Nova Scotia. The RCMP investigation into the disappearance remains open. Burnaby, BC Mayor Mike Hurley issued a formal apology today to people of Chinese descent for the municipalities' decades of historic discrimination. Please accept our appreciation for the contributions of your parents and grandparents

made to our community and their efforts for change. Our actions made life harder for them and for all community members of Chinese descent. For that, we are deep. sorry. From 1892 to 1947, Burnaby had policies and practices in place that kept Chinese Canadians from living, working, or owning businesses in the city. Mayor Hurley says his apology is part of Burnaby's commitment to inclusivity. Alberta Health Services says there will be no obstetrics care for the next six weeks in a northeastern area of the province. The Cold Lake area is trying to recruit a new permanent OBGYN to serve patients. In the meantime, new and expecting parents will have to make

due. Lexi Freehill reports. Cold Lake Mayor Bob Matice says it's not the first time obstetrical services have been paused. I don't want to say we're used to it, but we've heard this before. Mary Obstfeld is a nurse practitioner in the area. She says trouble with doctor recruitment and retention means the specialized expertise of an OBGYN might be difficult to replace. Who knows how long it'll be before we get that coverage again. Dr. Cameron Sclar is the president of the obstetrics and gynecology section of the Alberta Medical Association. He says the centralization of this care to cities like Edmonton is on the rise. Sadly, you know, it's just typically part for the course. I think that you're going to see more and more of this.

Alberta Health Services say doctor coverage has been secured beginning in January. Lexie Freehill, CBC News, Lloydminster. One person is dead after two planes collided in mid-air today. southern Ontario. One plane managed to land safely, but the other crashed into a forest in Glengarry Township near the Quebec border. Both planes were registered to Cornwall Aviation, a flight training school nearby. Transportation Safety Board investigators were on site. They say that both planes appear to have been in the midst of separate training exercises when they collided. And an explosion in a police station, an Indian-administered Kashmir has killed at least nine people.

A cache of confiscated explosives went off, causing extensive damage. The local director general of police insists it was unintentional. The handling was being done with extreme caution, with utmost caution. However, an accidental explosion has taken place. It came days after a car bombing in New Delhi killed eight people. Investigators called that explosion a terror attack. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey.

Thank you.