The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/27 at 06:00 EST

Episode Date: November 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/27 at 06:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. borough.ca. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Calgary today for a signing ceremony with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. What's being signed is an agreement that will allow Alberta to begin looking at developing an oil pipeline to BC's northwest coast.

BC's opposition to the idea is. is well known, and there's another problem as well. Paula DeHoucich reports. For us, a lot has to happen in order for us to see progress. Grapreet Lale is CEO of Inserva, which represents oil patch service companies. For years, the oil and gas industry has complained federal rules have made it too difficult for companies to build new projects. John Gorman, Vice President with Halliburton in Canada, says to get a new pipeline off the ground, there's still a major piece of the puzzle that's missing.

company that wants to do it would be one. Randy Olinberger, an analyst with BMO Capital Markets, says companies are likely still thinking about the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion. Costs ballooned from an estimated $7.3 billion to more than $34 billion. There's no publicly traded pipeline company that's going to step up and say, I've got a blank check. So we're really far away from the finish line yet. Still, Olinberger thinks if the cost issues can be dealt with and a new pipeline and built it would give a much-needed boost to the country's economy. Paula Duhacchuk, CBC News, Calgary. U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to send more U.S. National Guard troops into Washington, D.C.

This following a shooting yesterday just blocks from the White House that sent two National Guard troops to the hospital. Katie Nicholson reports. Police cars choke the streets near Farragut Square two blocks away from the White House as a pair of National Guard troops from West Virginia were whisked away in critical condition. Metropolitan Police Assistant Chief Jeffrey Carroll briefed reporters. Members of the D.C. National Guard were on high visibility patrols in the area of 17th and I Street Northwest.

When a suspect came around the corner, raised his arm with a firearm, and discharged at the National Guard members. The suspect was tackled to the ground shortly after firing at the troops. He has since been identified as a 29-year-old Afghan National. His potential motive, the subject of an intense FBI investigation. U.S. President Donald Trump called the suspect an animal and ordered 500 more National Guard troops to D.C. Their presence already contentious. Katie Nicholson, CBC News, Washington. In the hours immediately following the shooting, Trump issued a video statement calling for an

investigation into every Afghan refugee currently living in the United States. going to put up with these kinds of assaults on law and order by people who shouldn't even be in our country. We must now re-examine every single alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden, and we must take all necessary measures to ensure the removal of any alien from any country who does not belong here or add benefit to our country. The U.S. government says it has stopped processing all immigration requests from Afghanistan. Afghan nationals indefinitely. 55 people are now confirmed dead from a horrific fire that is still burning at a massive apartment complex in Hong Kong.

I open the front door. I see there is much smoke filled in the corridor, so I just go back inside. I grab my dog, grab my toe and key, and just rush down the stairwell. We got all the way down to the brown floor, and it was filled with fire. The fire was too intense and we couldn't go through. And so we had to turn around and go to the opposite side. The cause of the fire. That incidently is Adler soon.

She's a resident of one of the buildings. The cause of the fire isn't known, but the buildings have been under construction. And three suspects have been taken into custody by police with charges to follow. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.