The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/16 at 08:00 EST

Episode Date: November 16, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/16 at 08:00 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. borough.ca. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Claude Fagg. A critical civil emergency and dangerous persons alert has been issued by Alberta RCMP for communities in the northern part of the province. Three armed suspects were reported to be shooting

at people near the Peerless Trout First Nation area last night. RCMP confirmed the suspect stole several firearms and later located north, were later located north of Peerless Lake First Nation, before fleeing on foot into the woods. A massive rally is taking place in the Philippines capital. Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Manila, demanding government accountability over allegations of corruption. It involves the country's flood control projects

and allegations of high-level politicians receiving kickbacks to secure lucrative contracts. Reporter Dave Grunbaum is in Manila. It's come out in hearings and the ongoing investigation that lawmakers have earmarked money into the national budget for flood control projects and then steered those projects towards particular private contractors who've been paying off the lawmakers. But in addition to that, the people are supposed to be monitoring these projects to make sure they're done appropriately. Often engineers in the Department of Public Works or Highways Department, they've been getting paid off to look the other way. So what you end up having happen here is that you've got some projects according to investigators that have been marked as complete are nowhere near complete. Others are substandard and some project market is complete are not even started. We've got ghost projects and those are some of the many reasons why so people are furious about this because we're talking about according to investigators billions of dollars siphoned off for flood control projects to line the pockets of dirty people according to investigators.

Dave Brunabound for CBC News, Manila. is announcing sweeping changes to its asylum policy. It comes amid growing public concern about uncontrolled immigration. People granted asylum will now have to wait 20 years before applying for permanent status, up from the current five years. But it's possible they could lose the refugee status before then. Shabana Mahmoud is Home Secretary. The situation will be assessed every two and a half years. So if your country becomes safe in that intervening period and you are remaining on this essentially core protection model, you will be returned to your country because we see countries that have started off in conflict and people have moved in order to

escape that conflict becoming safe. So I think that is right. The government is trying to reduce the number of people entering the country by crossing the channel in small votes. A dive team searching for the century old wreck of the Rapid City may have found something far more extraordinary in the deep waters of Lake Ontario, a pristine shipwreck that could be decades older may offer a rare glimpse into a period of Great Lakes shipbuilding historians know surprisingly little about. Colin Butler reports. The mystery began in 2017 when a fiber-optic cable survey between Buffalo and Toronto spotted an unusually large object. That caught the attention of Trent University Professor James Connolly. He thought it might be the Rapid City. A two-masted

Schooner built in 1884 and lost in 1917. But Connolly says the images told a different story. This is different than what we thought it was. This is something else. Rope rigging, an early non-patent windless design, both masks still standing top masts intact. All hints this vessel could predate the Rapid City by decades. A rare link to a period of shipbuilding where technology changed rapidly and record keeping was poor. For now, It rests in silence near Toronto, a rare time capsule just waiting to tell its story. Colin Butler, CBC News, London, Ontario. The 112th Great Cup will be played today in Winnipeg between the favorite Saskatchewan

Rough Riders and Montreal Alouettes. The riders are looking to hoist their first Great Cup since 2013, while the Al's won more recently in 2023. Kickoff is scheduled for just after 6 p.m. Eastern Time 5 Central. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fagg.