The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/21 at 10:00 EST

Episode Date: November 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/21 at 10:00 EST

You may have heard of the sex cult nexium and the famous actress who went to prison for her involvement, Alison Mack. But she's never told her side of the story, until now. People assume that I'm like this pervert. My name is Natalie Robamed, and in my new podcast, I talked to Alison to try to understand how she went from TV actor to cult member and what she thinks of it all now. How do you feel about having been involved in bringing sexual trauma at other people? I mean, I don't even know how to answer that question. Alison, after Nexium from CBC's Uncover, is available now, wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, The World This Hour.

I'm Claude Fagg. A bear attack in northern B.C. has left 11 people injured. The bear attack was called into the police at around 135, saying that multiple people had been injured by a bear. It was reported that there were students. That's RCMP Corporal Madonna Saunders. The student, she mentions, are from an elementary school in Bella Kula, about 700 kilometers north of Vancouver. The attack happened on a trail near the rural coastal community. Four of the injured are in critical or serious condition in hospital.

A parent of one of the children says teachers fought off the attacking animal. The bear ran off and is still on the loose. There's no word on why it may have attacked. New data analyzed by CBC Marketplace shows about half a million Canadian. left emergency departments before being seen by a doctor last year. The data crunch shows that figure has been climbing in recent years. ER doctors call it a worrying trend that could mean patients are getting sicker at home. Marketplace co-host Chris Glover reports. It was chaotic. It was loud. Susan Gordon describes the Moncton ER she went to with severe stomach pain in June.

She waited for hours until she gave up and went home. Her pain intensified. until eventually she collapsed and was rushed back to the ER. I needed to have surgery, and they were doing it immediately. In New Brunswick, 12% of ER patients walked out last year. That's nearly 60,000 people. The national trend has increased since 2019, when in most provinces, fewer than 10% of patients left. Dr. Fraser Mackay, with the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians,

says walkouts are a serious concern. They come back, and now they're that much sicker. Experts agree chronic understaffing, a lack of family doctors, and hospitals at capacity are causing long ER weights in Canada. Provincial governments tell CBC News they're trying to expand capacity and hire more staff. Chris Glover, CBC News, Moncton. For the full investigation, you can watch Marketplace tonight at 8 p.m. 8.30 in Newfoundland on CBC television. An explosion at a glue factory in Pakistan has killed at least 15 people. seven others were injured. A boiler overheated and then erupted starting a fire. Investigators are looking for the cause. A moment of tragedy at the Dubai air show this morning.

Whoa! Whoa! Hi witness video shows the moment an Indian fighter jet seemed to lose control and flew directly into the ground. Smoke and flames exploded into the air as it crashed inside the grounds of the airfield. police and emergency personnel rushed to the crash site. Firefighters sprayed foam to extinguish the flames. India's Air Force is confirming the plane's pilot died. There could be an awkward oval office encounter today. This afternoon, Donald Trump sits down with the Democratic mayor elect of New York, Zoran Mandani. The two men are polar opposites politically with the president calling Mamdani a communist lunatic and disaster. Willie Lowry reports from Washington. These are the two biggest names in their respective political parties at the moment, but there is a huge power imbalance between them.

Zoran Mamdani is still just the mayor-elect. He only takes office in January, and he's dealing with a president who has threatened to cut federal funding to New York City, send in the National Guard and ramp up immigration enforcement efforts there, all because Mamdani is a democratic socialist. Mamdani, meanwhile, says he'll be singularly focused in the meeting. I will meet with anyone. I will speak to everyone so long as it could stand to benefit an economic agenda for New Yorkers. This meeting, perhaps a foreshadowing of the next three years and what the relationship will be between the president and his native town.

The Epstein files have revealed cracks in the Republican Party and his grip on Congress. All of that heightens the stakes for this meeting as the two faces of their parties square off for the first time. Willie Lowry, CBC News, Washington. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fade.