The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/27 at 09:00 EST

Episode Date: November 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/27 at 09:00 EST

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i'm joe cummings 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 I think it's really important that our laicity model evolve. 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. Quebec passed Bill 21 in 2019.

It banned some public sector workers, including teachers, from wearing religious symbols like hijabs and kippas 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 public prayer and on prayer rooms at colleges and universities. 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. It will be tabled later this morning. Alison Northcott, CBC News, Montreal. Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Calgary today for a signing ceremony with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. They're signing an agreement that allows Alberta to begin looking at developing an oil pipeline to BC's northwest coast. But standing in the way of any pipeline project is a tanker ban off the BC coast, which BC Premier David Eby is demanding that Ottawa keep in place. And the President

of the Coastal First Nations, who is insisting an oil pipeline to the province's north coast, will quote, never happen. Sixty-five people are now confirmed dead from this week's enormous fire at an apartment complex in Hong Kong. But the final number of fatalities is expected to be significantly higher, considering that close to 300 people are still listed as missing. The fire at the apartment complex engulfed seven apartment towers spread out over eight city blocks. This woman managed to escape. I open the front door. I see there is much smoke filled in a car. or so I just go back inside, I grab my dog, grab my phone 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 blaze isn't known at this point, but the buildings have been under construction, and three people linked to the construction project have been taken into custom. Details are coming to light regarding the number of animals in remote regions of BC that are killed each year by trains. The animals range from moose and bighorn sheep to grizzly bears. Jackie McKay has the details. It was pretty shocking to come here and find four dead grizzly bears.

Wildlife scientist Clayton Lamb stands under a railroad bridge where the animals were killed. But it's something he has seen before, tracking animals using wildlife collars in the elk valley of southeastern BC. for more than a decade. Journalists at the Narwhal publication filed a freedom of information request to the BC government and shared the responses with CBC. Data shows that CN Railway reported 340 wildlife collision incidents between 2020 and 2020. Biologist Colleen St. Clair has studied the problem around Banff. She says the best thing trains could do is slow down.

Places where they know that collisions are more likely. In a statement, CPKC says it prioritizes practical mitigation strategies. CN says the company is actively evaluating a range of detection devices. Jackie McKay, CBC News, Elk Valley, BC. And that is the world this hour. For news anytime, go to our website, cBCNews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings. Thank you.