The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/21 at 00:00 EST

Episode Date: November 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/21 at 00:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. borough.ca. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Mike Miles. A bear attack near Bellacula, BC, has sent four students to hospital. Two in critical condition, the other two serious. The bear has reportedly not been captured. That has the Newhawk First Nation telling people to stain doors,

adding it is devastated for the victims. Some of other people were treated on the scene for minor injuries. Bellacula is 420 kilometers north. west of Vancouver. Ukraine's president says he's ready to negotiate with Donald Trump on a U.S.-backed peace plan. Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukraine needs a just peace that will not be broken by another invasion. He received a draft peace framework Thursday that was jointly prepared by the U.S. and Russia. According to the Associated Press, it would require Ukraine to surrender territory and scale back the size of its military, something Zelensky has rejected in the past.

Still, he says the plan contains the fundamental principles that matter to our people. Prime Minister Mark Carney met with the President of the United Arab Emirates to lay the groundwork for a potential trade deal. As trade with the U.S. scales back, Carney's looking to double the business Canada does with other countries like the UAE. Karina Roman has more. Behind closed doors, Carney met with the UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayyad El Nakhyan and signed a financial investment agreement 10 years.

in the making. Former parliamentarian Jean Cherey is co-chair of the Canada-UAE Business Council. You know, one of the reasons these things either get done or not done is leadership. The Prime Minister also announced the start of free trade talks with the goal of getting to an expedited deal. Carney also met with the heads of some of the biggest sovereign wealth funds in the world, part of his effort to attract billions in foreign investment to Canada. Mina al-Arabi is the editor-in-chief for Abu Dhabi's English-language newspaper, the national. It's incredible to think that nobody's come here since 1983 from the prime minister's Ada, but I think Mark Carney is a different type of prime minister. Karina Roman, CBC News, Abu Dhabi.

U.S. President Donald Trump was posting angry and controversial messages Thursday. The trigger? A video by six congressional Democrats urging members of the U.S. military and intelligence community not to obey illegal orders. Trump called that sedition, pointing out that those found guilty, get the death Paul Hunter reports. I'm Senator Alyssa Sotkin. Senator Mark Kelly. Six Democratic lawmakers with a blunt message to their fellow Americans in uniform. Defend the U.S. Constitution, they say, refuse to act on illegal orders.

The threats to our Constitution aren't just coming from abroad, but from right here at home. It comes as the U.S. military's commander-in-chief, President Donald Trump, is under fire for what some say are illegal military strikes in the Caribbean on boats. Trump says, are carrying illegal drugs to the U.S. And as Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to various U.S. cities is in places being challenged in court. Trump has now torn into those lawmakers on social media. Seditious behavior from traitors, he wrote, and then separately writing,

punishable by death, senior Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer. He is lighting a match in a country soaked with political gasoline. Paul Hunter, CBC News, Washington. meat, potatoes, and a heaping helping of financial worry. Food is the top spending concern for most Canadians, according to the latest Canadian food sentiment index from Dalhousie University. The findings show most people have changed the way they shop, cook, or consume to deal with rising prices.

Solvand Charlebois is the survey's lead author. If there is one word I can use to describe the data we collected, it's anxiety, really. people are concerned about food prices, food prices are impacting their behavior, their choices, how they perceive inflation. The study also says distrust in large retailers is growing due to what many Canadians see as unfair pricing. 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 Mike Miles.

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