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

Episode Date: November 26, 2025

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

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i'm joe cummings some disturbing statistics have come to light regarding the safety of public transit in canada specifically violence on buses street cars and subways and how it's surging in many cities across the country eric sito has the detail 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, Vertaza 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 vehicles. Assault in Winnipeg, for example, went up by almost 300%. Edmonton, 260%. 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. More help is on the way for Canada's steel and softwood lumber industries. The federal government is expected to announce a new round of measures aimed at keeping the sectors afloat in the face of the ongoing Trump tariffs. Loan guarantees are expected for softwood lumber producers, while among other things, freight costs are expected to be lowered for the steel sector. More than 75 recommendations have been issued following a coroner's inquest into the death of five, people from a Northern Ontario First Nation. They died from a rare fungal lung infection that disproportionately affects First Nations communities, 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 Degle. 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 poachers 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. It's an apartment fire on an epic scale. In Hong Kong, multiple high-rise buildings are all burning out of control. They're part of a vast housing complex that covers eight city blocks

and the intensity of the flames is making it impossible for firefellings. firefighters to do their job. The temperature inside the buildings concerned are very high. So it's quite difficult for us to conduct firefighting and rescue operation. That's one firefighter on the scene. The confirmed number of dead currently stands at 14, but with the complex containing more than 2,000 units, that number is expected to continue to rise. Canadian parliamentary history has been made by Blockiebecois MP Louis Plymendon.

The 82-year-old now holds the record for the most consecutive appearances in the House of Commons. On Monday, he surpassed Sir Wilford Laurier by sitting for 15,057 days. Clamondon first came to Ottawa as a progressive conservative. That was in 1984. He says he intends to run again in the next election. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings. Thank you.