The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/26 at 12:00 EST

Episode Date: November 26, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/26 at 12:00 EST

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From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. We're expecting Prime Minister Mark Carney to introduce a new round of measures this afternoon to help the Canadian steel and lumber industries. This says the devastating U.S. tariffs remain in place with no end in sight. Janice McGregor has more. The Prime Minister actually foreshadowed this announcement

in question period yesterday. There are sectors, the auto sector, the steel sector, the lumber sector, the aluminum sector that are under pressure. There will be announcements this week to further support. Now, arguably the most sensitive one on his list there is steel. Canadian producers have been saying for months that they still don't have the help they need. And it's not clear that today's announcement is going to deliver everything they've asked for. but it is going to slap new tariffs on steel imports from countries that don't have preferential trade agreements in place with Canada.

Today's announcement is expected to start subsidizing the cost of rail transportation to remove the price incentives to use offshore steel. A government source also told our colleagues at Reggio Canada that today's news is going to include help for both workers and businesses in other affected sectors like lumber. Janice McGregor, CBC News, Ottawa. Close to 25,000 Canadians work in the steel industry. In the forestry and logging sector, it's about 37,000. The search continues for one of the bears that attacked and injured three school children and a teacher last week in a remote BC community. The BC Conservation Service says two grizzlies have been captured in the Bella Kula area, and one of them is still being assessed. But it says there is no conclusive evidence at this point that either bear was involved in the attack.

As it stands now, the animals will most likely be fitted with tracking callers and relocated. As the U.S. peace plan for Ukraine continues to be discussed on multiple fronts, at least one senior Russian official is warning that Moscow has no intention of scaling back any of its core demands. Crystal Gamansing reports. Sergei Ryabkov, Russia's deputy foreign minister, says while there are different versions of a peace plan, there can be no talk of concessions or abandoning Russia's approaches

to the special military operation in Ukraine. Ryabkov says the Kremlin is committed to work from what was achieved during the Alaska summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. We'll make it progress. On board Air Force one Tuesday, Trump said it is expected that each side

will make changes to the initial draft framework and that hopefully there will be more forward momentum in an effort to end the war. European leaders, including Ursula von der Leyen, the EU president, have praised Trump's efforts to end the war, but say any peace deal must respect Ukraine's territorial sovereignty. Crystal Ghancing, CBC News, London. 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 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. The Weather Network is out today with its national forecast for the next three months, and it's predicting an abrupt start to winter. That means for most regions, a colder December and January than what we've seen in recent years. In fact, the network is calling for, quote, a December to remember. It's saying some provinces should brace for both excessive cold and heavy snowfall. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.