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

Episode Date: November 27, 2025

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

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quebec government is tabling a bill today aimed at extending the province's existing ban on religious symbols it's a bill the government is insisting will strengthen the province's religious neutrality Alison Northcott has more. Quebec's minister responsible for secularism, Jean-Franso-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. 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. Unprecedented assault on fundamental freedom. Harini Sivalingham 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 put everyone's rights and freedom in Quebec in grave danger. The Quebec government says its bill will be ambitious but moderate. Allison 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 the tanker ban off the BC coast, which BC Premier David Eby is demanding Ottawa should keep in place. As well, the president of the coastal First Nations is insisting an oil pipeline to the province's north coast will, quote, never happen. The FBI is calling it an investigation of terrorism. This follows yesterday's shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C. The Bureau says the 29-year-old suspect in the shooting came to the United States four years ago from Afghanistan and has been living in Washington State.

The FBI alleges he drove to Washington, D.C. the day before the shootings. Here's Janine Piro, the U.S. Attorney, for the District of Columbia. My message to the individual who committed these acts is you picked the wrong target, the wrong city, and the wrong country, and you will be sorry for the violence and the evil that you perpetrated in our nation's capital. Meanwhile, the CIA says that prior to coming to the United States, the suspect worked for American intelligence in Afghanistan.

The suspect, along with the two National Guard members, remain in hospital. 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 big horn 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 2023. Biologist Colleen St. Clair has studied the problem around. 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.

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