The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/21 at 02:00 EST

Episode Date: November 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/21 at 02:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. borough.ca. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Mike Miles. We begin in B.C. where 11 people were hurt in a grizzly bear attack. It happened during a trip by elementary school students, Thursday afternoon by Nbella Kula, about 420 kilometers northwest of Vancouver. A parent who saw it, says teachers fought off the bear, with one teacher taking the worst of its blows, where that teacher was one of the victims airlifted the hospital, where two are in critical condition too serious, while the

other seven were treated on the scene for minor injuries. The grizzly has reportedly not been captured. That has the Newhawk First Nation telling people to stay indoors, adding it is devastated for the victims. Parent Veronica Schooner says her son was traumatized by the animal assault. Alberta's government has introduced a new bill that Premier says protects the freedom of speech of regulated professionals. Danielle Smith calling it Peterson's law after controversial Ontario psychology professor Jordan Peterson. The Ontario regulator sanctioned Peterson for statements it called demeaning. Michelle Belfontaine has more.

Premier Daniel Smith says regulators shouldn't police the words and beliefs of their members when they are off the job. Are regulators still focused on public safety and professional competence or are some of them overstepping to enforce ideological conformity and to silence public discourse. Nurses and doctors faced sanctions during the COVID-19 pandemic for expressing skepticism about vaccines. The UCP passed a resolution two years ago calling for a law like Bill 13. Laurean Hardcastle is a professor of health law at the University of Calgary. She says this law will make Alberta an outlier among provinces. This will make us quite different. in terms of how we regulate our health professions and other professions.

Some regulators contacted by CBC News say they plan to withhold comment on Bill 13 until they've had a chance to review it. Michelle Belfontaine, CBC News, Edmonton. A senator wants sports betting advertisements banned. In 2021, the federal government changed the criminal code to allow for single-event sports betting. Senator Percy Down says this allows you to bet on almost anything and has led to a rise in both sports gambling and ads. He calls them harmful, especially for the young.

For young people who look up to these hockey players, that's pretty enticing. And it's a terrible addiction for a number of people. You can't legislate away human weaknesses, but you can legislate away the ability of others to take advantage of them. Down says a full ban would mean no advertisements during games or on social media apps, similar to Canada's ban on cigarette ads. Forty other senators have also signed off on Down's letter to the prime minister asking for the ban.

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 those found guilty get the death penalty. Paul Hunter reports. I'm Senator Alyssa Slotkin. 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. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles.