The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/20 at 16:00 EST

Episode Date: November 20, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/20 at 16:00 EST

Okay, listen, I love a TV show that discusses the big topics of our time, whether it's AI or political corruption, but the morning show may have taken that concept a little bit too far from plotlines about Russian oligarchs to AI betrayals. The show kind of now feels like more of a superhero spy thriller movie situation than a workplace drama. So this week, I'm going to talk to some of the smartest critics that I know about what the heck is going on. For this episode and more, you can find and follow commotion with me, Alameen Abdu Mahmoud, wherever you get your podcast. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Kate McGilfrey. A growing number of Canadians are worried about putting food on the table. The latest Canadian Food Sentiment Index survey found rising prices in the grocery store

are now the top affordability concern. Philip Lee Shanik reports. It'll be gone within the hour. Christine Nautagar is a Dartmouth Community Fridge Volunteer. She says the free milk. and eggs in the outdoor fridge need restocking at least three times a day. People are really struggling. Affordability just continues to be a major issue for a lot of people.

The Canadian Food Sentiment Index measures perceptions around food affordability. The Dalhousie University Survey found four and five say food is their main spending concern. Lead author Sylvain Charlebois is head of the Agrafoods Analytics Lab. He says food even outranks housing and transportation. I actually thought that shelter would be much closer, to be honest, because shelter has been an issue and it is a fundamental need. The survey found that one in four Canadians say they are food insecure and cannot afford basic healthy food.

That's up from one in five in the spring. Philip Lyshanock, CBC News, Toronto. Officials in Brampton, Ontario, say the rental home that burned down early this morning was not in compliance with a building permit. At least two people were killed, another four people, including a five-year-old, were taken to hospital after jumping from an upper floor. Three others haven't been accounted for. Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown says the landlord failed to follow the conditions laid out in the building permit,

including having the building inspected. The fire chief says heavy equipment will come in tomorrow to allow for a thorough search. European leaders are warning there can be no negotiations about peace in Ukraine, without Ukraine, at the table. There are reports that a U.S.-backed plan would require Kiev to give up some territory, a demand Ukraine's president has repeatedly rejected. Anna Cunningham has more. Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelensky has met with a visiting delegation of top Pentagon officials. The official statement from Kiev confirming a U.S. draft plan to end the war with Russia has been received. It is reported to include proposals that Ukraine cedes land to Russia and limits the size of its army.

At a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels, foreign policy chief Kaya Kallas accuses Russia of never making real commitments. The pressure must be on the aggressor, not on the victim. Rewarding aggression will only invite more of it. This comes a day after one of the deadliest Russian strikes on Western Ukraine. 26 people were killed in the city of Turnipol. Zelensky's office says the president will soon discuss details off the plan with U.S. President Donald Trump. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London.

Cracks were found in a key part of a UPS plane that crashed in Kentucky earlier this month. The cargo plane crashed on takeoff, killing 14 people on board and on the ground. Investigators have found cracks in the mount of the left engine that fell off moments after the plane took off. And 23,000 lives could have been saved in England alone had the U.K. acted faster at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. That is the conclusion of a public inquiry into the government's response in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. Here's Chair Heather Hallett. I can summarise my findings of the response as too little, too late.

All four governments failed to appreciate the scale of the threat or the urgency of response it demanded in the early part of 2020. Hallett says clear early warning signs in China and Italy were ignored in 2020, and lockdown orders came too late, which meant they had to last longer and caused more economic damage. She also says then Prime Minister Boris Johnson presided over a chaotic and toxic culture at Downing Street. That is the world this hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts.

We update every hour seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey. Thank you.