The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/26 at 03:00 EST

Episode Date: November 26, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/26 at 03:00 EST

Are your pipes ready for a deep freeze? You can take action to help protect your home from extreme weather. Discover prevention tips that can help you be climate ready at keep it intact.ca. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. In Toronto and Vancouver today, several men allegedly linked to fugitive Ryan Wedding, are set to appear in court. They were arrested last week as part of an FBI operation

to take down the former athletes, apparent drug-smuggling empire. As Thomas Dagler reports, the case is providing new insight into how Wedding allegedly moves money around the world. Ryan Wedding to the line. 23 years after Ryan Wedding flew down the slopes as a Team Canada Olympic snowboarder,

he's accused of laundering the proceeds of his billion-dollar criminal enterprise by leveraging associates in BC, Ontario, England, and Italy suspected of buying up properties and luxury goods on Wedding's behalf. U.S. Treasury Undersecretary John Hurley. Wedding operates through a complex web of individuals and companies to launder his drug proceeds, using everything from front businesses to luxury cars to cryptocurrency. Among those appearing in court Roland Sokolowski,

a Toronto jeweler who U.S. authorities say acted as Weddings Bookkeeper. Court documents reviewed by CBC News suggest Sokolovsky sent at least $375 million U.S. in cryptocurrency to virtual wallets linked to wedding. Wedding himself remains on the run, with U.S. authorities offering a $15 million reward for information leading to his arrest. Thomas Dagg, CBC News, Toronto. How safe is your transit ride? CBC News and the Investigative Journalism Foundation found, despite a slight dip after the pandemic, Rates of violence have surged in Canada. In some cases by more than 300% over the past decade, Eric Sito reports.

A joint investigation by CBC News and the investigative journalism foundation using exclusive stats can data shows transit violence more than doubled across much of the country between 2016 and 2024. University of Alberta professor Bertaza Haider, along with researchers at Toronto Metropolitan University, helped analyze the data. It hasn't gone down to pre-pendemic levels, in most cases. and there's a greater need for cities and provinces to coordinate and improving safety on transit property and vehicles. Assault in Winnipeg, for example, went up by almost 300%.

Freedom of information incident data from the Toronto Transit Commission or the TTC also showed a similar uptick of violent crimes, including assaults, which are still well above pre-pandemic level. The TTC says by their own metrics, incidents have gone down since 2023. And numbers are higher than pre-pandemic because there's now more reporting. But one of the biggest reasons for this spike, according to experts, repeat offenders. Eric Cito, CBC News, Toronto. There is hope after a coroner's inquest into an outbreak of a disease that killed five members of a northern Ontario First Nation.

A rare fungal lung infection disproportionately affects people in First Nations, particularly around the Great Lakes. Kate Rutherford has more. He was kind of that light within our family. That's Luke Moore's cousin, Michelle Deigle. Luke, a member of Constance Lake First Nation, died of blastomycosis in a remote, under-resourced hospital misdiagnosed with pneumonia. His father, Arthur, is a former chief and pushed for the inquiry. The people are awakened by the process of inquest.

He testified how he and others, fearful of language barriers and cultural misunderstanding locally often traveled hundreds of kilometers to bigger hospitals. The jury's first recommendation, a call to all levels of government and health care providers to provide fair access to health care to indigenous people without discrimination. Blastomycosis killed for other people. Another recommendation environmental cleanup of decades-old debris from sawmills in and near Constance Lake. Levels of government say they're reflecting on the non-binding recommendations.

Kate Rutherford, CBC News, Sudbury. The Prime Minister will announce new aid measures today for the steel and aluminum industry. that's according to a government source who spoke with Radio Canada. The move comes in response to tariffs from the U.S. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland.