The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/19 at 05:00 EST

Episode Date: November 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/19 at 05:00 EST

Is your home ready for the next big snowstorm? 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 this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. Prime Minister Mark Carney is trying to drum up more trade for Canada. Today he lands in the United Arab Emirates, hoping to to attract cash for Canadian projects, despite the concern of some human rights activists.

Diamond Isinger was a trade advisor to former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. There's no such thing as a perfect partner or ally out there for Canada to be doing business with. The United Arab Emirates faces allegations that it's financially supporting a paramilitary group committing atrocities in Sudan. It's a claim the UAE denies. Nunavut has a new premier this morning. Nunavut. Congratulations. Mr. Maine. Members of the legislature elected John Maine in a secret ballot yesterday. Nunavut operates under a consensus government, which means there are no political parties.

All the territorial politicians are independent. Maine was most recently the Territory's health minister. He was also once a CBC journalist. He's the first non-inuk premier in Nunavut's history, though he was raised in the north and speaks fluent inuktitut. The survivor in one of Ottawa's worst mass killings is speaking publicly for the first time since the man who murdered his entire family was sentenced. In March of 2024, six people were killed in a family home, including the man's wife and four children.

David Fraser reports. Inside an Ottawa temple, Danushka Lik Ramsinger, bowing his head in prayer, his Buddhist faith, the reason he says he's standing after losing his wife and four children in one of the city's deadliest homicides. Fabio de Soiza pleaded guilty earlier this month to killing the family and another friend in 2024. He also attacked Lecramsinger, stabbing him six times. He was sentenced to life without parole for 25 years. I always wanted to justice.

Lecramsinger had welcomed De Soiza, a young man from Sri Lanka, to live in his Ottawa home, supporting someone he shared a faith and home country with. Destroy my everything, my family, my life. Immigration struggles are adding to the trauma. Wick Ramsinga's brother rushed to Canada after the killings, but he can't bring his own wife and daughter here. The family's immigration lawyer says it could take a decade for the family to be united in Canada unless the federal government steps in. David Fraser, CBC News, Ottawa. Millions of Canadians rely on ultra-processed foods like ready-made meals and mass-produced bread.

But doctors around the world have a fresh warning about how bad those foods can be for your health. Jennifer Yun explores why it's so hard for Canadians to cut these foods out of their diet and what other countries have tried. At the Parkdale Community Food Bank in Toronto, Executive Director Kitty Rahman Costa wants to make sure her clients have access to whole food, even though many have no choice but to reach for ultra-processed options. They're not just more convenient, they're the only option for people depending on their circumstance. In Canada, more than half the foods we buy are ultra-processed, say we're. researchers, meaning they have additives, high amounts of sugars, flavors, or emulsifiers. Experts around the world are warning. In a series of studies published by The Lancet,

the rise in ultra-processed foods poses a major public health threat. John Claude Mubarak is one of the co-authors and the professor at the University of Montreal. We have a great opportunity to address the chronic diseases that we're facing in this country by changing the food system. He says Canada could learn from other countries, like Brazil, which has a free school lunch program focused on whole foods and limiting ultra-processed foods. Jennifer Yun, CBC News, Toronto. Astronomy lovers are buzzing today because NASA will release new images this afternoon of a giant comet that's flying through our solar system.

It's called Three-Eye Atlas. It's a chunk of ice more than one kilometer wide, but it also contains unusual amounts of nickel. And at least one Harvard astronomer says we might be seeing a piece of alien technology. But most scientists are skeptical about that. theory. The recent U.S. government shutdown meant that NASA did not release images from its telescopes until now. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland.