The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/22 at 23:00 EST

Episode Date: November 23, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/22 at 23:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Mike Miles. The Union for Alberta hospital workers and the province have narrowly avoided a strike. Attendative agreement lays out multi-year wage hikes for the workers, which include licensed practical nurses and health care aids. Sam Samson has more. Members of the Alberta Union of provincial employees were set to strike at 8.30 a.m.

Local time, but mere minutes into this picket line, It was over. A tentative agreement had been reached. I think it comes down to a matter of respect. Licensed practical nurse, or LPN, Kayla Oliveira, was among the crowd of bundled up health care workers at one of the Edmonton picket lines. She says she and her colleagues work so hard and finds the pay differences compared to registered nurses, or RNs, unfair. Wages were the main issue at the bargaining table.

In the end, the union says its affected members will receive between a 12 and 24 percent wage increase over four years. For most, that will include adjustments to match what counterparts in other provinces make and retroactive pay to April 1st of 2024. But the union says they aren't fully satisfied with the deal. Beyond wages, another key negotiating point was short staffing, which it says was not solved with this latest agreement. Sam Samson, CBC News, Edmonton. The UN's 30, COP 30, rather, Climate Summit in Brazil has ended with a part one draft deal, including steps to speed up climate action and more money for developing countries to deal with extreme weather, but it says nothing about phasing out fossil fuels.

The EU's climate commissioner, Vepka Hooksra, was lukewarm. We're not going to hide the fact that we would have preferred to have more ambition on everything, and we think that should have been possible. We think that is needed given what we see in terms of the planets continuing to warm up. And yet, the world is what it is, the conference is what it is, and we do think that it's on balance. Here's clearly a step in the right direction. Some participant countries are slamming the draft deal, calling it climate denialism and saying it, quote, transcends incompetence. The world's biggest historic emitter, the United States, did not send a delegation. Point Minister Mark Carney is joining other world leaders, saying

U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to end the war in Ukraine needs more work, meeting on the edge of the G20 summit in South Africa. The leaders put out a statement saying parts of the plan were concerning, such as telling Ukraine to limit its army and give up territory. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says the plan is putting intense pressure on his country. For his part, Trump says the peace plan for Ukraine is not his final offer. Unidentified drones were spotted flying over a military base in the Netherlands Friday. The defense ministry says it tried and failed to bring them down. The Netherlands is one of several European countries

that have spotted unidentified drones near military bases and civilian airports. In football, another Montreal versus Saskatchewan matchup with the caribans facing the Huskies for the Vanier Cup. It comes after the rough riders ran roughshod over the alouettes in last weekend's Great Cup, but this time Montreal came out on top, 30 to 16, at climate breaks it down.

Welcome back to Mosaic Stadium in Regina. just the fourth time in the 60-year history of the Banyet Cup, a rookie quarterback has led his team to victory. And it's all about Pepe Gonzalez. 20-year-old Pepe Gonzalez threw three touchdown passes as his Montreal Carabin beat the Saskatchewan Huskies 30 to 16 on Saturday. It's the third time the carabin have won the championship. For Saskatchewan, this was a crushing loss.

Not only was the game played in their home province, with Regina hosting the event for the first time, but it was the seventh consistent. executive time the Huskies have lost when appearing in the title game, extending a drought that dates back to 1998. Montreal and bitter provincial rival Laval have now split the last four championships, and things will not get any easier for the Canada West, Ontario, and Atlantic conferences, with the Vanier Cup to be hosted by Quebec City in 26 and 27. Ed Climond for CBC News, Toronto.

And that is the world this hour. CBC News, I'm Mike Miles.