The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/16 at 00:00 EST

Episode Date: November 16, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/16 at 00:00 EST

This ascent isn't for everyone. You need grit to climb this high this often. You've got to be an underdog that always over-delivers. You've got to be 6,500 hospital staff, 1,000 doctors, all doing so much with so little. You've got to be Scarborough. Defined by our uphill battle and always striving towards new heights. And you can help us keep climbing.

Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. bro.ca. From CBC News, The World This Hour, I'm Mike Miles. A family and community in rural Nova Scotia are not ready to give up hope in the search for Lily and Jack Sullivan. The two small children disappeared in May. Volunteers searched again Saturday

in a last-ditch effort before winter sets in. Selina Alder says more. A volunteer trudges through densely packed woods looking for any signs of Lily and Jack Sullivan. We're covering this side of the river. The young siblings were first reported missing from their home in rural Nova Scotia the morning of May 2nd, and they've not been seen since. We need some type of closure.

Cheryl Robinson is a close family friend and volunteering in the search. Until we have answers, we have hope, basically. The Ontario-based nonprofit, please bring me home, led the charge on the search. The children's grandmother, Belinda Gray, says she's grateful for the outpouring of community support, but she's becoming even more anxious as the colder months close in. Am I not going to be able to search? I know they're out there. Selina Alders, CBC News, Picto County, Nova Scotia.

After more than a century, the Vatican says it will return cultural items belonging to First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities to Canada. It comes after two years of negotiations led by indigenous groups. The Holy See is pledging to give them to the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops so they can be returned. The items will be flown back to Canada December 6th and assessed at the Museum of History in Gatno. The museum will work with indigenous leaders to determine where they should be returned. A deadly storm is hitting parts of Europe. Areas in Portugal in Spain have faced days of extreme weather,

including heavy rain and powerful wind caused by storm. Claudia. Three people in Portugal are dead, dozens more injured. And in Wales, those alarms going off as rushing water floods a street in the city of Monmouth. Tarrantial rainfall prompted some residents to evacuate their homes overnight. Others had to be rescued by firefighters and police. Severe flood warnings are in place in parts of Wales and England. It was President Donald Trump is expected next week to launch his lawsuit against the BBC over how it edited the speech he gave just before the January 6th riots. Trump says he wants from $1 to $5 billion.

The BBC should not pay, says British journalist Alan Rusbridger. This was not an attempt to stitch the president up. It was a small introductory clip that tried to give a flavor of what he was saying that day. Now, it wasn't done in the right way, but the burden of proof will be on Trump to show that this was done with malice, and I just don't think he can do that. The BBC apologized to Trump. but called his demand for financial compensation unjustified.

It's a historic first for Canadian women's soccer. Vancouver Rise FC has won the inaugural Northern Super League Championship in a riveting final against AFC Toronto, capping a season that has packed stands across the nation. Mandy Sham has more on the final and the future the sports building. Hunter goes to the right foot. And this time it's in. Off the foot of McCasland and in.

Keeley Hunter, what they're being. anyone else? 17-year-old striker, Kaylee Hunter, rounding out a breakout season with the first goal of the game. The rookie of the year, giving AFC Toronto an early lead, energizing young fans in the stadium.

I think it's amazing, but a girl like her could be on a team. In the end, it was Vancouver Rise that rose to the occasion, winning two to one to take home the trophy of the first ever and a cell final. Holy word! The roar of the crowd is,

isn't just noise. It's market demand, says Diana Matheson, co-founder of the Northern Super League. And I am telling you, come back to me by 2030, this is going to be a billion-dollar industry in Canada. Mandy Sham, CBC News, Toronto. And that is The World This Hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts. We update every hour, seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles. Thank you.