The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/27 at 07:00 EST

Episode Date: November 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/27 at 07:00 EST

You may have heard of the sex cult nexium and the famous actress who went to prison for her involvement, Alison Mack. But she's never told her side of the story, until now. People assume that I'm like this pervert. My name is Natalie Robamed, and in my new podcast, I talked to Alison to try to understand how she went from TV actor to cult member and what she thinks of it all now. How do you feel about having been involved in bringing sexual trauma at other people? I mean, I don't even know how to answer that question. Alison, after nexium from CBC's Uncover, is available now, wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, it's the world this hour.

I'm Joe Cummings. It's an agreement that will allow Alberta to begin the process of looking into an oil pipeline from the oil patch to the northwest coast of BC. And it's being signed today in Calgary by Alberta, Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney. But while Alberta and Ottawa are on board, BC is not, and at this point, neither is the business community. Paula Duhatchuk 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. A 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 built, it would give a much-needed boost to the country's economy. Paula Duhatchek, CBC News, Calgary. The Quebec government is tabling a bill today aimed at extending the province's existing ban on religious symbols. It's a bill the government insists will strengthen the province's religious neutrality. Alison Northcott has more. Quebec's minister responsible for secularism, Jean-François-Roberge, will table a new bill today, he says, will build on the province's existing laws around religious neutrality.

So it's important for us to adapt and to improve our model. Thank you. Quebec passed Bill 21 in 2019. It banned some public sector workers, including teachers, from wearing religious symbols like hijabs and kipas at work. The new bill will extend to private schools and public daycare workers, too. Radio Canada has learned it will include a ban on. on public prayer and on prayer rooms at colleges and universities. Unprecedented assault on fundamental freedom. Harini Sivalingam with the Canadian Civil Liberties Association

says the bill would infringe on religious freedoms, freedom of expression and peaceful assembly. These measures are based on a distorted view of what secularism is that puts everyone's rights and freedom in Quebec in grave danger. The Quebec government says its bill will be ambitious but moderate. Alison Northcott, CBC News, Montreal. President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to send more U.S. National Guard troops into Washington, D.C. This follows a shooting yesterday just blocks from the White House that sent two National Guard

troops to hospital. A suspect is in custody. He's being identified as a 29-year-old Afghan national. In the hours following the shooting, Trump issued a video statement calling for an investigation into every Afghan refugee currently living in the U.S. We're not going to put up with these kind 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. The president of France has unveiled a new national military service

plan. Emmanuel Macron says it's designed to bolster the country's armed forces to address growing concerns over Russia's general threat to Europe. Volunteers aged 18 and 19 can start serving next year in a 10-month military service program. The volunteers will serve in France's mainland and overseas territory contingents. Conscription, which France ended, in 1996 is not being considered. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.