The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/17 at 00:00 EST

Episode Date: November 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/17 at 00:00 EST

Are your pipes ready for a deep freeze? You can take action to help protect your home from extreme weather. Discover prevention tips that can help you be climate ready at keep it intact.ca. From CBC News, the world is sour. I'm Neil Kumar. We begin with the Canadian Football League, as the Saskatchewan Rough Riders have defeated the Montreau Alouettes to win the 2025 Grey Cup. the end zone to float in and it falls to the field. And Gray has just turned green and white.

The Saskatchewan Rough Riders and Trevor Harris have won the Grey Cup. It's the first Grey Cup title for Saskatchewan since 2013. The riders will now get to hoist the Cup after defeating Montreal 2517. The battle over the federal budget will be decided on Monday. That's when it will be put to a vote in the House of Commons. And with only a minority government, the liberals would need some help from the opposition. As Philip Lee-Shannock reports, if the budget fails, Canadians could face another election. And I don't think I was elected to fail to show up.

Green Party leader Elizabeth May says she won't be abstaining from Monday's budget vote. But that vote is still up for grabs. I'm still talking to ministers and representatives from the prime minister's office and others, because right now I'm a no. She says the climate protection measures in the budget are just not a. We have all of our votes that will be present in the House of Commons, but the reality of the situation is that this is a minority parliament. Liberal Party whip MP Mark Gerritsen says whether the budget will pass or not is up in the air. If it falls, so does the government. We also don't think that Canadians want a Christmas election, but we will certainly be prepared.

We are always ready to go. It may come down to the votes of seven NDP MPs who could vote for it or abstain. NDP leader Don Davies says discussions with the federal liberals continue this weekend. Philip LeShanock, CBC News, Toronto. U.S. President Donald Trump is now urging House Republicans to vote to release the Epstein files.

The House of Representatives will vote on a bill this week to release all files from the Department of Justice on the sex trafficker. Katie Simpson reports from Washington. I don't care about it, released or not. Trump was named hundreds of times in emails from Epstein's estate, recently

released by Congress renewing calls for transparency. Trump has since ordered his Attorney General to investigate links between Epstein and Democrats, a probe specifically targeting his political opponents. Republican Congressman Thomas Massey fears Trump is only doing this to stop the release of any new information. If they have ongoing investigations in certain areas, those documents can't be released. So this might be a last-ditch effort to prevent the release of the Epstein file. Lawmakers in the House of Representatives will hold a vote Tuesday on a bill that compels authorities to release everything they have on Epstein. The bill is expected to pass in the House but will likely stall in the Senate, meaning it won't go anywhere.

Katie Simpson, CBC News, Washington. And President Donald Trump says the U.S. may be having some discussions with Venezuelan President Maduro. This would potentially be a diplomatic move shortly after the U.S. military's largest aircraft carrier arrived in the Caribbean. Cody Weddell has more from Boketaw. And us people. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro singing John Lennon's peace anthem imagine at a political rally. A not-so-s subtle message directed at U.S. President Donald Trump and the American people. On Tuesday, the USS Gerald Ford, the U.S. Navy's most advanced warship, arrived in the region.

With it, 15,000 sailors and Marines are now stationed. stationed in the Caribbean. But I have it at 80-20 that some kind of action will take place. James Story served as the ambassador for Venezuela during the first Trump administration. I think the policy is regime change. I don't think this is a policy of counter-narcotics. Certainly, these are resources that are entirely too powerful. The Trump administration has framed its campaign as a counter-narcotics operation and destroyed 22 boats that were allegedly carrying drugs. We made a lot of progress with Venezuela.

Cody Weddell for CBC News, Bogota. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Kumar.