The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/18 at 02:00 EST

Episode Date: November 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/18 at 02:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. borough.ca. From CBC News, the world is sour. I'm Neil Kumar. The minority Carney government has nearly survived a major confidence vote on its budget. As Marina von Stalkleberg reports, it was those who didn't vote that ensured the Liberals' survival. In a razor-thin vote,

Mark Carney's minority government has narrowly passed its first budget and thwarted a winter snack. election. In the end, 170 MPs voted for it and 168 voted against. But it was four MPs who did not vote at all that tipped the scales. That included two new Democrats. The NDP maintains it does not agree with Carney's plan. But BCMP, Gore-Johns, says he decided to abstain after speaking with leaders in his writing. We're being the adult in the room, listening to our constituents, who said right now is not the time to have an election. The budget includes $1 billion for Arctic infrastructure

and a university in Nunavut. The other two abstentions came from the Conservatives, Shannon Stubbs, who the party says is off on medical leave, and Matt Jenneroo, who announced earlier this month he was quitting this spring. Marina von Stackleberg, CBC News, Ottawa. Canada's inflation rate slowed down last month. Statistics Canada says it fell to 2.2% from 2.4 in September, largely due to lower gas prices.

Grocery prices grew at a slower pace last month after apacing overall inflation for nine months in a row. The UK government is proposing an overhaul of how the country handles asylum seekers. The plan would make it easier to deport people and quadruple the amount of time it takes to become a permanent resident. Senior international correspondent Margaret Evans

explains what's behind the change. Madam Deputy Speaker, with your permission. The Labor Government's Home Secretary Shabana Mahmoud unveiling her proposal. new asylum rules in the British Parliament. Immigration, illegal or otherwise, tops the list of British concerns, according to the latest Ipsos poll, beating out both the economy and a struggling national health service. Mahmoud says a broken system is tearing the country apart.

If we've wailed to deal with this crisis, we will draw more people down a path that starts with anger and ends in hatred. She says her new policy will make it easy. to deport failed claimants and act as a deterrent. Those granted asylum would no longer be entitled to automatic support from the state. Their status would be re-evaluated every two and a half years and they'd only be eligible for permanent residency after 20. That's compared to five now. Margaret Evans, CBC News, London. Forty-five Indian pilgrims have been killed in a bus crash with a diesel tanker. It happened on Monday near Medina and Saudi Arabia.

The bus had 46 passengers, one survived with injuries. The worshippers were traveling from the Islamic Holy City of Mecca to Medina when the accident occurred. A new cancer report says the chances of surviving a diagnosis are getting better for Canadians. But it's not all good news. That same report reveals the country is falling short when it comes to cervical cancer. Health reporter Lauren Pelley explains why. Hundreds of Canadians are expected to die from cervical cancer this year alone. A new report shows after two decades of falling rates, progress has stalled to nearly zero percent.

The Canadian government made a commitment to the World Health Organization to eliminate cervical cancer by 2040. But if things continue as they are now, we're not going to meet that timeline. Brandon Purcell is with the Canadian Cancer Society, the advocacy group behind the new report. The group is now pushing for a switch away from the standard PAP test to one specifically for human papillomavirus or HPV, which causes almost all cases of cervical cancer. But so far, those screening programs are only available in the Northwest Territories, BC, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, and parts of Quebec. And the final piece of this puzzle is the vaccination.

Purcell says the shots should be free for everyone. So we're looking for provinces and territories to make the move towards what we call a once-eligible, always-eligible vaccine policy. Lauren Pelley, CBC News, Toronto. And that is the world this hour for CBC News. I'm Neil Kumar.