The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/16 at 19:00 EST

Episode Date: November 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/16 at 19:00 EST

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when MPs vote on the carney government's budget as a minority the liberals need two more votes or two opposition MPs not to show to get the budget passed and if they don't there could be a snap election barely six months after the last one but the chief government whip mark garrison says his party is ready we're always always ready for an election. The Liberal Party has been ready for an election since the last one. If it comes to that, then we'll proceed to an election. Having said that, I don't believe Canadians want this, and what they want is for us to be working together, and I believe that this budget reflects that. The Block Quebecois and Green Party have signaled their parties won't

support the budget, and conservative leader Pierre Polyev says his party can't prop up a document that piles on more debt. RCP in northern Alberta are still looking for three armed suspects who stole a number of guns this weekend. Police say the suspects are armed and dangerous. Sam Sampson has the story. Three people are still on the run after stealing multiple guns from a business on Saturday. It happened near Red Earth Creek, a community more than 400 kilometers north of Edmonton. RCMP say the group robbed a business, shot at someone, then fled.

Police say no one was hurt. Hours later, the RCMP found the suspect's vehicle north of Peerless Trout First Nation, which is about 65 kilometers away. The suspects ran into the woods. RCMP ordered a shelter in place for nearby residents. They searched for hours, even called in extra resources, but determined early this morning the suspects were no longer in the area. Since then, the shelter in place has been lifted,

but police are still looking for the suspects. RCMP have not offered a physical description of the three people, only saying they're armed and dangerous, and if anyone sees anything suspicious, call 911. Sam Sampson, CBC News. News, Edmonton. For years, Marjorie Taylor Green was one of Donald Trump's loyal defenders, but not anymore. The U.S. Republican congressman has found herself on the receiving end of the president's attacks for supporting efforts to get Department of Justice files on Jeffrey Epstein

made public. Kate Fisher has more. President Trump has called Marjorie Taylor Green a ranting lunatic, saying that she should be unseated in next year's elections. While the Georgia Republican says the president's comments have been hurtful. He called me a traitor. Those are the types of words used that can radicalize people against me and put my life in danger. It comes after Green signed a discharge petition to force a House vote to release the files related to Jeffrey Epstein. I believe the country deserves transparency in these files. And I don't believe that rich, powerful people should be protected if they have done anything wrong. Scores of House Republicans are expected to break rank and support the

bill, but it's unlikely to get Senate approval or be signed by the president. Still, the process could drag on for weeks, keeping the controversy about Trump's ties to Epstein in the news. Kate Fisher for CBC News, Washington. According to multiple reports, U.S. civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson is in hospital and receiving a form of life support. Jackson is under observation for progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare neurodegenerative condition. He's had it for more than a decade. The 84-year-old has been a leader of the civil rights movement since the 1960s.

He fought for the rights of black Americans and other minorities, alongside his mentor, Martin Luther King Jr., and was present when King was assassinated in 1968. In Israel. Construction workers continue laying cement along a wall separating Israel from southern Lebanon. Lebanese officials say the new divide violates a UN- mapped borderline. And on Friday, a U.N. spokesperson echoed that claim, saying the wall cuts off Lebanese territory. Israel has denied that the wall crossed the boundary.

Well, it's the biggest night of the year of the CFL. It's the 112th Grey Cup. Fans and even the Prime Minister are gathered. We'll have more on that. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips.