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

Episode Date: November 21, 2025

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

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and a digital business library full of on-demand resources. Benefit together with Chambers Plan. Learn more at hellochambers.ca. 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 found rising prices in the grocery store are now the top affordability concern philip leishanick reports it'll be gone within the hour christine nautigar 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 and five in the spring. Philip Lichanaw, CBC News, Toronto. So-called lost Canadians now have a path back to citizenship. In 2009, the federal government changed existing rules, blocking Canadians born abroad from passing down citizenship if their child was born outside of the country. A judge ruled that move unconstitutional. The new law allows citizenship to be passed down to children,

born or adopted abroad, beyond the first generation. But parents must have spent a total of three years in Canada before the birth or adoption. Environmental groups at the Global Climate Summit in Brazil have called out Canada for increasing investment in fossil fuel energy. With less than two days left, the U.N. Secretary General is urging the countries at COP 30 to agree on environmental measures. Antonio Guterres says communities on the front lines of climate change need help to adapt. It is the difference between rebuilding and being swept away, between replanting and starving, between staying on ancestral lands or losing it forever. Canada's recent rollbacks of key climate policies and announcements of new resource projects

has led one climate research organization to downgrade Canada's environmental plan to highly insufficient. Meanwhile, talks between Ottawa and Alberta over the future of the oil sands are moving forward, including how to get a new pipeline built to the BC coast. Liberal MP Christia Freeland will move to England next summer to start a new job administering the Rhodes Trust. The educational charity is famous for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship at the University of Oxford. Freeland herself has not announced plans to resign as a member of parliament, though she has said she doesn't plan to run in the next election. Her local riding association in Toronto had no details to share on plans for an eventual by-election,

but the Rhodes Trust says she will start in her new role this coming July. 23,000 lives could have been saved in England alone had the UK government acted faster at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. That's 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, and lockdown orders came far too late, which meant they had to last longer and caused more economic damage. And Bell Canada's parent company, BCE, is cutting about 650 management positions and 40 jobs at its subsidiary, Bell Media. That follows 4,800 job cuts in 2024 and 1,300 in 2023. BCE recently told investors it was looking for 1.5,000.

billion dollars in cost savings by 28. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey.