The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/18 at 13:00 EST

Episode Date: November 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/18 at 13:00 EST

You know that feeling when you reach the end of a really good true crime series? You want to know more, more about the people involved, where the case is now, and what it's like behind the scenes. I get that. I'm Kathleen Goldhar and on my podcast, Crime Story, I speak with the leading storytellers of true crime to dig deeper into the cases we all just can't stop thinking about. Find crime story wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Stephanie Skandaris. A new report from an anti-fraud non-profit group shows which cars are most attractive to thieves in Ontario. A police crackdown has led to a decline in auto thefts across the province,

but as Colin Butler reports, criminals nationwide still walked away with more than a billion dollars worth of vehicles last year. Akechee's Vice President of Investigative Services, Brian Gavis, says auto theft is still high reward, low risk. Pickup trucks and SUVs continue to dominate the list, but the luxury vehicles is a growing trend. The new report outlines the most stolen models by volume, the 2024 Honda CRV, the 2022 Dodge Ram 1500, and the 2019 Honda Civic.

But the worst by frequency is the 2024 Lexus TX. One in four in Ontario was stolen last year. Police in the province say theft is dropping fast, thanks to public awareness and new tech, like automated license plate scanners, but Ontario and Quebec remain Canada's car theft hotspots. Wheel clamps, trackers, and signal blocker pouches for key fobs all help. Gas says you don't need every tool, but usually the less stolen car is the one that's harder to steal. Colin Butler, CBC News, London, Ontario. Very pleased that we pass the budget vote.

step for our country. Prime Minister Mark Carney says it's time to get to work. The liberal government's budget narrowly passed in Parliament last night. The Liberals avoided a snap federal election after four opposition MPs abstained from voting and Green Party leader Elizabeth May agreed to vote in favor. She says she was won over by a last minute pledge by the Prime Minister to meet Paris climate targets. Carney's first budget calls for billions of dollars in new spending to help Canada's economy in the face of a trade war. It also includes cuts to the public service aimed at saving billions of dollars. Manitoba is looking to end the use of sick notes in many cases. CBC News has learned the provincial government wants to ban employers from demanding sick notes unless the employee

has been gone from work for seven calendar days. Doctors Manitoba is happy with the plan. President Dr. Nichelle Deselae says writing sick notes is a waste of time. The vast majority of these illnesses are not verifiable. If someone comes to the clinic and tells me that they've been unwell with a gastrointestinal illness, I have no way of confirming that outside of observation. Manitoba is one of only two provinces without rules limiting the use of sick notes. The proposed legislation is expected to be mentioned in today's throne speech, laying out the government's priorities for the coming session. The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on the release of federal records from the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. Two days ago, Donald Trump

reversed his previous position and publicly called for the document's release. That's after House Democrats released Epstein's private emails, tying him more closely to the president. House Speaker Mike Johnson says he backs the release of the files, but he warns they may include information the Department of Justice has already found not credible. The discharge petition could create new victims, okay? Doing this and requiring this to come out could ruin the reputations of completely innocent people, such as those who may just have known Epstein but knew nothing of his crimes. Trump maintains he had no involvement or knowledge of Epstein's crimes.

Poland's prime minister is blaming Russia for what he calls acts of sabotage on a railway route to Ukraine. And Donald Tusk told the country's parliament officials identified two Ukrainians who work for Russian intelligence. He says the men placed explosives on the tracks, but the blasts resulted in minimal damage. The suspects fled to neighboring Belarus before they could be apprehended. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Stephanie Skanderas. Thank you.