The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/21 at 12:00 EST

Episode Date: November 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/21 at 12:00 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 On Cover, is available now, wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, The World This Hour. I'm Claude Fagg. The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled federal inmates can challenge decisions not to transfer them to lower security prisons.

As Olivia Stefanovic tells us, it's a decision that will change the way federal prisoners are reclassified. In a six to three ruling, Canada's top court says judges can review the refusal to move a federal prisoner to a lower security prison if they find that inmate is deprived of their liberty. The case was filed by two federal inmates, denied transfers from medium to minimum security prisons. Senior correctional officials kept the prisoners in more restrictive conditions than their case management teams thought appropriate. The Ontario Superior Court of Justice and Court of Appeal dismissed their to reverse the decision, but the Supreme Court of Canada allowed their appeal.

The ruling comes too late for the two inmates who were transferred to minimum security facilities before the Supreme Court ruled, but the decision will make a difference for other federal inmates who will now be able to challenge reclassification rejections before a judge. Olivia Estefanovich, CBC News, Ottawa. A bear attack in northern BC has left 11 people injured. 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 Saunderson.

The students, 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 yesterday. Four of the injured are in critical or serious condition in hospital. A parent of one of the children says teachers fought off the attention. attacking bear. The bear ran off and is still on the loose. There's no word on why it may have attacked. A moment of tragedy at the Dubai air show this morning. Oh! Whoa! Whoa! Eyewitness 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. India's Air Force is confirming the plane's pilot has died. More than 40 people are dead after days of torrential rain in Vietnam. Rescurers wait through chest high water to pull people to safety over the past three days. More than 1,500 millimeters of rain has fallen with more forecast for today. Half a million homes and businesses are without power. More than 50,000 homes have been submerged by the deluge. Vietnam has been facing extreme weather in recent months, including two deadly typhoons.

Well, there could be an awkward Oval Office encounter today. This afternoon, Donald Trump sits down with the Democratic mayor elect of New York, Zoran Mundani. The two men are polar opposites politically with the president calling Mondani, a communist lunatic and disaster. Willie Lowry reports from Washington. So 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 can 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. That is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fagg.